LBJ's Deadly Mistake

Bill reveals the incalculable costs incurred when President Lyndon Johnson escalated the Vietnam War. .

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[asthemillertoldhistale]

LBJ was the reason I am not a democrat today. I recognized the evil and lies at an early age.

[carsondyle]

LBJ wealth was $400K at beginning of his term. $14 million at the end. Military made him a lot of coin

[marlenemanion]

I’ve seen pictures of Johnson looking at Kennedy like he absolutely hated him. Never cared for Johnson. Many of my classmates died for no good reason.

[pete]

LBJ, a disaster we're still paying for.

[JRPLawyeress]

My husband went to a small Catholic Boys high school. Five boys in his graduating class were killed in Vietnam. My brother and several of his friends joined the Navy. Irony the rich kids of politicians with college exemptions who spat on returning Vietnam vets are either making the laws financing endless wars or are leading the on campus anti semitic riots today.

[saxon]

I remember my dad, who was in the Army at the time, making a comment about LBJ, he said, "That SOB!"

[ernestimken]

LBJ knew exactly what he was doing. Building the military industrial complex, along with Robert McNamara. Human lives meant nothing to them.

[timteevin]

" BEWARE THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX". DDE.

Still holds true today.

[bflathead]

We lost our cousin in Vietnam Nam. He had Two weeks left to serve.
We were in the planning stages of his welcome home party..
We were in our living room on Sunday evening watching Walt Disney World and the phone rang. I was 10 years old but remember this vividly.
My poor cousin and my poor aunt.. she was never the same.

[layneatherton]

And to make matters worse, didn't he move Social Security over to the general revenue fund to pay for this war.
This has been the continued downfall of the Social Security every since.

[donaldbrinks]

Bill—LBJ should have taken the advice of a very, very famous person who once said. “ Always be nice to those people you meet on the way up, because you will probably meet those very same people on the way back down. “

[roberthoury]

Don’t forget LBJs. “great society” blunder as well!

[chuckaddison]

Vietnam was not Johnson's only mistake! His war on poverty is still a thorn in our side today.

[owenparkerjr.]

General Douglas MacArthur once said, "Never get involved in a war in Southeast Asia." Furthermore, “Anyone wanting to commit ground troops to Asia should have his head examined, ” Kennedy wrote of MacArthur’s advice. So, how did that Dominio Theory work out?

[normt]

"It gives me a heavy heart but I have to send another 100, 000 men to Vietnam". I was one of them.

[watermain]

Lyndon Johnson was two things: my commander-in-chief and one of the worst Presidents in American history.

[marklangevin]

Johnson would do anything to become President.

[alanstrong]

Funny thing that LBJ passed on just when the Vietnam War was coming to a close. His heart and his entire health fell over a steep cliff. Lyndon almost wrecked America's economy.

[agordon]

Johnson was a monster. Too many people don’t know what he did to get us into Vietnam. Thanks for informing people

[thomasharrold]

LBJ s sidekick, Humphrey was a toad and worm. He was only worth about a quarter of a million when he went into office. By the time he left, he was a Multi Millionaire. He owned a small trucking company and obtained lots of jobs sending stuff over there. During one of the State of the Union Addresses, he was sitting behind LBJ and wasn't quite in the picture. He started sliding in his chair, to get his toad face in the picture! The producer changed to another angle and Humphrey the worm, started sliding back to get in the picture. Total sleeze bag.