He ordered the murders of us servicemen with the help of israel
youtube USS Liberty - these sailors are still seeking justice for being stabbed in the back by Johnson - they are still being ignored.
Lyndon B Johnson got the Israeli military to attack a US Naval vessel, to use it as a pretext to go to war with Egypt and blame it on them, it was a false flag
Johnson killed American Servicemen. Go research, it's all true.
LBJ has to b one of the most overrated loser Presidents ever. A southern dixie-crat who hated the Kennedys, only was Pres because JFK got killed, created welfare, the social deficits we have now, orchestrated much of Vietnam and didn't have the balls to even run for a second term leaving Nixon a big pile of shit when he came in. This guy sucked. :)
People don't give Johnson enough credit. He was responsible for my things that helped everyday Americans such as Medicare. Johnson believed America should become a "Great Society" in which everyone has a chance to become successful. Sounds like a true American to me
Around 6:10 he speaks about God's Judgement being the hardest on those most favoured. The Jews are God's chosen people, not the Americans! So just who is he talking too, clearly not citizens of the USA. I also notice he began his speech my my fellow countrymen, not once saying whose those countrymen were!
I see this and wonder who was pulling johnson's strings behind the scenes.... i will not argue conspiracy with you people, but when you open your eyes to the bigger picture of the time it all makes sense... Kennedy scared so many people in the establishment that he became a threat to foreign interests... Kings are killed, politics is power..
He shouldn't of been using a teleprompter. That technology in the 60's would have been very underdeveloped, which as a result made him speak very slowly. I think if he had used good old paper, that speech would have sounded so much better, and it would have sound more 'real'.
One of the absolute worst presidents we've ever had. He kept us in Vietnam because, by his own admission, he was afraid to go against what his Harvard-grad advisors told him to do (because he attended a hick college).
Also, it was Johnson that gave us the nightmare government program called The Great Society. The fool believed that it was somehow a wise thing to get people to use others to get a free ride through life! U.S. tax-payers have ever since suffered greatly due to this fool jackass!!
@guyNbluejeans Yeah I guess medicaid, medicare for your parents was a bad idea. Oh student loans, truth in advertising,headstart for children,Mass transportation act,consumer protection act,National endowments for arts and humanities,
Clean air act, just to name a few, things you take for granted. I guess we should have just given the top @% billionairs a tax break instead. God bless Lyndon Baines Johnson.
@mumbleora The reason I didn't respond to you is that I didn't want to dignify your comments by replying back. But now you push the issue and so here I am.
I don't believe in socialism so there's nothing so wonderful about what you credit the man for as far as I'm concerned. But I'm curious, why did you blow past my criticism regarding him keeping Vietnam going ... and the dreadful Great Society program that has caused so much damage on so many levels?
@guyNbluejeans You don't win no prize because you know what everyone knows that he messed up in the 'Nam. But the Great Society and it's programs was just that.
@guyNbluejeans Should have read "should have given the top 2% billionaires a tax break" Anyway, Johnson came from poverty, rode the trains, he could relate to the little guy and his programs showed it and they continue to benefit all. LBJ, all the way.
@guyNbluejeans Yeah, I knew you wouldn.t have jack to say. You didn't realize how much of that great society you take for granted. You probably didn't even know what it was, just heard one of these "CON" servative mult-imillionaire radio commentators criticize it up and said, "right on man"
This man, with all his power, single handedly distroyed this county. The great society distroyed the black family and put as many people on the public dole as possible. This man created a dependent society, with many entitlements. The illegitimacy rate in the black family was about 22% in 1960, now its nearly 80%. I blame this on our government and the entitlement mantality. Create a dependent people, and you will gain power.
@sirhogin1 I'm thinking this 33rd degree mason was behind that knoll. The Scottish Rite Secret of the 33rd degree is Tesla Earthquake British Association Record No. 333 on September 3 at 3:03 p.m. THEY TELL "idiots of the 33rd degree"-Mark Twain THAT THEY CAN MAKE AN EARTHQUAKE IF THEY MEDITATE. Twain knew because his buddy Nikola Tesla made one for the Harriman Expedition in 1899.
Lyndon Johnson-is one of te top 5 presidnts of th USA..Historians are rankinhigher as time goes on...He presided over e ngest econmic growth of th US.. Americans of all econmic life, real incomes were going up! Johnson passed major domestic legislation, space program, assistence to the poor, eduation, civil rights, conservation. At the same time, he cutted the Federal budget, creaed fed surpluses, lowered thAmerican debt........Remarkable man!
One thing on which, I think ,we can all agree is that LBJ was the dullest public speaker to occupy the White House in the last half of the twentieth century! He could put a man to sleep quicker than a sleeping tablet.
@drjay1116able I absolutely agree. This is one of the most uninspiring and boring presidential speeches I have ever heard. This was a time when the country needed inspiration since JFK was killed. It sounds more appropriate as a religious sermon.
Though I totally disagree with Johnsons foreign policy action, he revolutionized america in the sense of passing many domestic policy laws including civil rights bill, age act, voting rights act and a lot more. He also was the president (along with candidate billy goldwater) who preety much changed the whole political party affiliation demographics in the south.
I'm a white man and I can't wait for the white people in America to become the minority because they don't deserve what their founders left them and what our Lord and Saviour proclaimed while on earth. The white men has become the slave of the jews/talmudic House of Rothschild/israel. I say let western civilization die and let the barbarians and the animals rule, that is what the white race deserves for allowing it.
@genxdude1991 Lyndon Johnson was not a "helluva congressman;" he never once co-sponsored a bill that would have affected the population of the United States as a whole.
He was a pretty scummy guy who got elected to the US Senate by 87 votes and what he had to do to get that to "stick" was totally revolting.
Read what Robert Caro has to say about Johnson; he's written three volumes on LBJ to date.
@genxdude1991 You're stupid... he was the worst politician in the history of this country. He murdered Kennedy, blundered in Vietnam, started to bankrupt this country with welfare and just shitted on this country every way he could. Rot in hell bastard.
@matrix49A "...started to bankrupt this country..." You must have him confused with Reagan or Bush Sr. It always amazes me how those two seem to get away in the public opinion with the fiscal havoc and never-ending spending carousel they created. How Reagan can be canonized as a saint of economical responsebility is embarrassing. Just look at the statistics of federal spending and national debt and you'll have it black-on-white.
@matrix49A "...started to bankrupt this country..." You must have him confused with Reagan or Bush Sr. It always amazes me how those two seem to get away in the public opinion with the fiscal havoc and never-ending spending carousel they created. How Reagan can be canonized as a saint of economical responsebility is embarrassing. Just look at the statistics of federal spending and national debt and you'll have it black-on-white.
Speaking of LBJ's success on civil rights, I think it almost HAD to be a southern president to convince southern people to agree to his civil rights act if you know what I mean.
Johnson was probably the best President since Roosevelt. The Great Society needs no explanation. And with a generation having passed since Vietnam, I think the argument can be made that a limited war of the non-nuclear variety was necessary to show that Communism had to be confronted somewhere.
@HoverboardFan14 I don't know what you're talking about but if you're talking about my post lasy year...This should have been John Kennedy's second Inaugural address.....hadn't Dallas happen 14 months earlier
One of the true great Presidents of this century! Its all been down hill since Johnson! A True president of the American people! God bless President Johnson!
Democrats claim at "helping the blacks", but poverty gets worse, black on black crime is worse, they suffer in inferior schools because Teacher's Unions won't allow anything but a dumbing down of the schoolchildren, and welfare begets absent fathers, etc. All these black scholars acknowledge, and are the legacy of Democrats. Conservatives see blacks as individuals, not groups. Bush put Condoleeza and Colin to the 2 top posts in the cabinet, on merit, not color, and got no credit for this.
LBJ on the surface "gave" all these entitlements, the Great Welfare State, which will eventually bankrupt us, just like Greece. Obama, like Johnson is leading us to our death as a democratic republic. LBJ changed much, ONLY because of sympathy for JFK's death--the only reason Goldwater lost; though, thank God, he spawned Reagan after a horrendous Carter ineptitude, just like Obama. You are delusional.
@BigBingFan . Noone is going broke. Believe all the nonsense
if you please. Look at the percentage of the social social security compared to The Iraq war in terms of the country's expenditures. If we cannot care for our impoverished elderly this is not much of a country
morally. You people which and was philosophical
well, go ahead......... But what LBJ did benefits your unknowing naive self everyday and you haven't the wisdom to even realize it.
And you, totally delusional, love Socialism, Big Government taking care of you from cradle to grave, and are totally out of step with reality: Johnson's "Great Society" helped give welfare to whole generations of folks who were INCENTIVIZED to not work, have kids, and take individual responsibiltiy and the work ethic away, and let Government become the "daddy." Do you delusional folks not know what was wrought? Obvioiusly not.
@BigBingFan Reality and delusion are your favorite words. Small words from a small mind.The truth is we have a health care reform law in effect now. Without LBJ's reforms have helped millions escape poverty and illness. Hide your head
if you want. Reagan was an immoral human being, as is George W. Sensless
slaughter at what cost in Iraq. These costs, human and monetary, need to be
corrected immediately. Bush and Reagan financial and oil deregulation caused
YOU are Delusional-because, well, you are. The Left has indoctrinated 2 generations now, with this same diatribe. Do you not know we are BROKE? What has the Welfare state wrought? You are engaged in Stage 1 thinking--only considering feelings and emotions, which is what the LEFT does so well. Stage 2 thinking corresponds to rational & logic-foreign to U. Therefore, this conversation's going nowhere w/your Stage 1 thinking. Delusion fits you. Bye to this diatribe, Stage 1 thinker!
@BigBingFan Why must you be so redundant with words. The country is not broke .Broke countries cannot wage a high tech war half a world away, Einstein. The difference is that I never forget the poor of this country, the dispossessed,
no health ins, no housing, no job, no hope. You are not ignorant -just blind and a
little inarticulate and very uninformed and have possession of very little humanity.
This criminal was the first president in my lifetime, and then it just got worse, one after the other criminal.
Which president has not been involved with the demise of this country, its Constitution, Bill of Rights, balance of powers for the people and by the people?
I have not yet made my mind up on the current installation, because the only thing he is trying to do is get re elected, and by doing nothing, his accomplishing his mission.
LBJ took alot of Kennedy's credit after his assassination by continuing Kennedy's civil rights policies. LBJ may have been a Democrat, but he couldn't care less about the Black community. He was as much a criminal as Nixon, and although JFK is a bit overrated on his attitude towards blacks, at least he realized what importance African Americans had on American life, and wanted to do whatever he could to give euel rights among blacks. The only person who was better than JFK? That would be Bobby..
Well just like in history, if the government sees some political benefit in granting rights to blacks thats the only time they will make the move. Lincoln may not have liked blacks himself, yet politically, it was the right move for the country at the time. My statement only stated he was a great president to black people simply because he was politically!
Ok, let's debate on the merits then; I say Johnson was a great president to blacks and he continued the push for civil rights that has morally united us more than divided us. The only thing that destroyed Johnson was 'Nam.
That sounds great and all but in reality it was John Kennedy’s bill for civil rights which was introduced before he died. Second, both Kennedys battled with Southern states on such issue. Johnson merely had to do it in memory of the slain president. Last, Johnson reversed Kennedy’s executive order, ordering the military to withdraw from Vietnam by 1965, Kennedy saw the wreck and Johnson wasn’t a good enough leader to put aside his pride or fear of the military industrial complex.
I didn't deny that Kennedy was not the initial crafter of civil rights legislation, pal. I clearly said "continued"; therefore, suggesting that a predecessor was the pioneer of it. Johnson did not only do it in the memory of the slain president, he did it because he shared the same values as Kennedy did. That's why he got picked for VP in the first place. You aren't telling me anything new. I didn't ask you to teach I asked you to debate. I can already see you are a partial reader.
Well that may sound good in your world, but I live in a little place called reality. Unlike you I know the Kennedy’s were despised by Johnson as he called them “The Irish Mob”. He openly hated Bobby Ken. and was picked for VP to get Kennedy the Southern white vote, other than that he was a hard core conservative Kennedy didn’t want. Reversing the executive order in Vietnam is a clear sign of an objection to Kennedy as President and his disregard as a slain diplomat.
Don't confuse reality with fantasy, friend. What you fail to understand is that most of the reasoning behind why Kennedy picked Johnson was during the initial campaign phase. Sure, it was to get the southern white vote, but a campaign lasts only 2 years prior to the presidency. Afterwards, in terms of policy Johnson and Kennedy saw eye to eye. Look it up. The facts are there. Just because he reversed the E.O., doesn't solely mean he objected Kennedy. He did pass the civil rights bill!
@CazK88 Fantasy is relevant sir. You see when Kennedy became the Dem Nominee he had to get Johnson as VP, everyone opposed him, his staff, his brother, his advisors. Thanks to Johnson he was able to slip by and get the Presidency. Without Kennedy’s sharp thinking he would have lost against Nixon. Johnson was chosen for the election only. Other than that Johnson wasn’t much help in the Missile Crisis, the struggle with civil rights, or the peace core, Kennedy was real the architect of the 60’s.
Fantasy is not relevant in a reality subject, sir. We are speaking about what happened, not the idealistic approach. I agree Kennedy was the architect. I told you in the previous messages that he was the pioneer, but you have to give the credit to Johnson who actually executed the bill to become law. For all that matter, Johnson could've just been a southern redneck and not give a damn about civil rights and not pass it. So you cannot discredit Johnson. He played a part in this too.
@CazK88 Fantasy is relevant in this instance for you believe Johnson was a good guy. The civil rights movement was not going to hold silent for Johnson to pass or veto it, it was a movement that was not going to stop regardless. So let’s not give credit where credit does not belong.
I don't use fantasy. That's you making statements you cannot prove. He was not unfavorable to the Democratic Party! Johnson was greatly supported by the Democratic Party and was responsible for designing the Great Society legislation that included laws that upheld civil rights, Public Broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, aid to education, and his War on Poverty. He had a major influence with coercive tactics to pass legislation like this. FACTS!
@CazK88 Again that all sounds good an all but environmental protection, education, and his War on Poverty, that pushes you off the cliff there, the Environmental Protection Agency was started by Nixon, Education began its decent, and what war on poverty? I applaud Johnson on Medicare, but his social security wasn’t thought through, and his idiocy in the Vietnam was a self-destruction.
You just don't want to accept the facts, pal. That confirms your fantasizing. That was NOT started by Nixon, the effects may had been seen by Nixon because funding needed to be appropriated, but as I said civil rights, Public Broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, aid to education, and his War on Poverty were all pioneered by Johnson. Nixon didn't give a damn about civil rights or public policy. He catered more to foreign policy, and that's where he is known well.
Nixon proposed the Environmental Protection Agency, that's where he gets credit for EPA; however, environmental protection was something done since Johnson was in office. As the need for E.P. was rising, Nixon supported the development of the EPA in the 1970s. Nixon, again, did not pioneer or architect the practice of environmental protection. That was under Johnson! You remind me of one of those conspiracy theorists..like the Obama birthers and 9/11 truthers. Go somewhere with that.
@CazK88 Huh? What? You brushed aside the fact that Johnson had no just cause and for several years Americans did not know why we were still in Vietnam. The Cold War was no longer a viable excuse because Americans began to see the bullshit spewing from Johnson. Regardless of what I remind you of its rude calling someone old man, which shows you’ve parted from reasonable argument and began the insults. How does 9/11 and Obama fit in the 1960’s?
@husky528 Hahaha! Your responses are so weak! I didn't bring up the fact that Johnson didn't go to war with a just cause because I never called him a hero, lol! I thought we covered this subject already. The Cold War was a valid excuse. What are you talking about? We went in because of the Cold War, and the American people knew that. Nixon was no better because he continued the troop movement.
Nixon proposed the Environmental Protection Agency, that's where he gets credit for EPA; however, environmental protection was something done since Johnson was in office. As the need for E.P. was rising, Nixon supported the development of the EPA in the 1970s. Nixon, again, did not pioneer or architect the practice of environmental protection. That was under Johnson!
I see you corrected yourself there, always a good sign. Nixon didn’t need to care about Civil rights because it was over with. I accept facts, I don’t accept Johnson portrayed as a hero. Heroes do not start wars and slaughter civilians over idiotic beliefs, regardless of what he did, his actions in Vietnam destroyed public opinion for the US around the world, his reversal and slap in Kennedy’s face by staying in Vietnam was his kissing of the Military’s ass. That’s why Kennedy was taken out.
No I corrected you. I never did say Nixon was ever for civil rights. The argument was about Johnson. I see you try too hard being right, and it just doesn't work for you. If you accept facts, you wouldn't be fantasizing. Here you go on a tangent, and we are supposed to be debating about Johnson. You are just a mad old man trying to change something that can't be changed. There can be heroes who start wars, but for a just cause. And you are wrong about Kennedy's assassination.
Watching this speech, on what was undoubtedly a happy day for Johnson, makes me think of the difficult days that were to come for him and the country. However, he knew what was on the horizon, even at this point...
Too bad Vietnam overshadowed a very impressive record especially the domestic one. So much of what and others in congress passed is now forgotten history. LBJ was the last President of the legalized segregated America.
Very true. How much courage it must've taken for JBL, the Democrat Senate majority leader from Texas, to collaborate with Eisenhower to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and then as our US president pass IMO the greatest civil rights act in our history, the Civil Rights act of 1964: the end of institutional segregation in the US. We still got a long way to go before racism is dead, but LBJ gave us one hell of a push. People like him and Sam Houston make me proud to be born Texan.
LBJ responsible for the Vietnam War. Bush started Iraq, Obama lied and said troops were coming home instead we just move to another country, how lovely.
Not really a Vietnam supporter, but damn this guy knew how to run a country. One of the best things to ever happen to America, and I rank him the 5th best president ever.
His intentions with the Great Society a the beginning of his presidency were good but he wasted it all by escalating an immoral war that saw the deaths of thousands of Ameircan soldiers. What a terrible waste of life.
Not just his intentions, but he succeeded with the Great Society Act in what was the New Deal of the 1960's. In this point in time, facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, that's another reason to appreciate LBJ. The economy did wonderful under LBJ, with an unemployment at just 3% in 1968. No President is perfect, not even Johnson, but he was still one of the best.
@AlecBoy006 Overall, I think LBJ was a good president, but I wouldn't go as far as calling him great because of the Vietnam war, Kennedy was slightly better than LBJ, and the only president after Eisenhower, in my opinion, who desrves to be in the top 10 best presidents list is Bill Clinton, but LBJ was way better than Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush1, Bush2, and Obama.
@mr19932001 I'm sorry. But I don't see how Kennedy was slightly better. Many tend to credit JFK for Civil Rights, but he deemed it politically impossible. LBJ messed up Vietnam, but before his death JFK said there was no way we could pull out. I just don't think Kennedy was the most honest person. There are rumors he was behind Marilyn's murder and also LBJ admitted the JFK administration killed Diem.
@AlecBoy006 LBJ could've pulled out, but instead, he let the war get escalated to over 500,000 troops, compare that to Kennedy only having 16,000 combat troops there, I doubt Kennedy would've allowed things to get that bad, and I don't credit Kennedy for Civil Rights legislation, that was all LBJ, JFK had nothing to do with it, JFk's involvment in Marilyn's murder is just a rumor. I think JFK was slightly better because he was successful with both foreign and domestic policy.
@AlecBoy006 LBJ didn't accomplish anything with foreign policy. Jimmy Carter accomplished more in that area than he did. The only 2 presidents that did worse than Johnson in that area were George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
@mr19932001 I respect your opinion. But I feel that LBJ should at least be credited for the Dominican intervention as far as foreign policy goes. Lives were saved when he sent troops there to help.
@AlecBoy006 I respect your opinion as well. Usually no one respects my opinion on youtube because I'm not afraid to give a president credit when he deserves it, and I now know someone does.
@mr19932001 How do you compare 8 years of presidency with a president who barely has two? you want to lump Bushes mess onto Obamas lap. They haven't even been in the WH long enough to change a light bulb yet.It take longer than 2 yrs to clean up 8 yrs of crap, and he actually has more respect world wide than bush left with.
@mumbleora I'm not lumping Bush's mess on Obama's lap, dispite what happened 2 weeks ago and what the media has to say, I still would take Obama over Bush, but I also keep in mind that he hasn't given us real healthcare reform becuase he tried to compromise with the GOP, the party that created this mess,his poliies in Afghanistan are no diffrent from Bush's, did not put up a good enough fight for the repeal of "Don't ask Don't Tell" and is now caving into the GOP by extending the Tax Cuts.
great president on the domestic side he brought many reform.
mannyda69 3 days ago
Lyndon B Johnson is a traitor to America.
He ordered the murders of us servicemen with the help of israel
youtube USS Liberty - these sailors are still seeking justice for being stabbed in the back by Johnson - they are still being ignored.
Lyndon B Johnson got the Israeli military to attack a US Naval vessel, to use it as a pretext to go to war with Egypt and blame it on them, it was a false flag
Johnson killed American Servicemen. Go research, it's all true.
Communist2012 1 week ago
one of the greatest presidents in american history
blackcaesar3k5 2 weeks ago
OK he did screw us with Vietnam, but in all honestly what else did he do wrong?
wangsta25 1 month ago
@wangsta25 he vetoed kennedy executive order 11110 which would empower the U.S. Treasury to issue real money without the federal reserve.
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GraveyardSouljah 1 month ago
One of the best presidents ever
Pikuwashi 4 months ago
@Pikuwashi are you blind? he killed JFK for crying out loud. you must be dumb enough not to know history
jfkrules101 2 months ago
@jfkrules101 How did he kill JFK?
Pikuwashi 2 months ago 4
LBJ did more for the poor of America than any other president in our history. A true liberal will see that he rivals FDR and JFK in greatness.
AWesome61696 4 months ago
LBJ was benefiting from the tax-cut originally proposed by kennedy
geert574 5 months ago
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morval99 6 months ago
The War on Poverty was a costly failure. The Johnson Administration is not fondly remembered for domestic as well as foreign policy reasons.
NYerintransit 8 months ago
LBJ has to b one of the most overrated loser Presidents ever. A southern dixie-crat who hated the Kennedys, only was Pres because JFK got killed, created welfare, the social deficits we have now, orchestrated much of Vietnam and didn't have the balls to even run for a second term leaving Nixon a big pile of shit when he came in. This guy sucked. :)
aitraining 9 months ago
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griffin324 5 months ago
his guy is a f"ing criminal !! he gets to take credit for all the things kennedy did !! he"s a fraud
jefft2774 10 months ago
People don't give Johnson enough credit. He was responsible for my things that helped everyday Americans such as Medicare. Johnson believed America should become a "Great Society" in which everyone has a chance to become successful. Sounds like a true American to me
415price 10 months ago
@415price Stupid he murdered Kennedy.
matrix49A 10 months ago
Around 6:10 he speaks about God's Judgement being the hardest on those most favoured. The Jews are God's chosen people, not the Americans! So just who is he talking too, clearly not citizens of the USA. I also notice he began his speech my my fellow countrymen, not once saying whose those countrymen were!
kryckeestrooff 11 months ago
Johnson was in on the assassination of Kennedy. He knew that was the only way he would become president.
Aknut45 11 months ago
Did Lyndon Johnson killed JFK????
ac9125 1 year ago
Lyndon Johnson killed JFK; read Barr McClellan's book on the matter.
SatchmoSings 1 year ago
I see this and wonder who was pulling johnson's strings behind the scenes.... i will not argue conspiracy with you people, but when you open your eyes to the bigger picture of the time it all makes sense... Kennedy scared so many people in the establishment that he became a threat to foreign interests... Kings are killed, politics is power..
RickRomo 1 year ago
damn he is a boring guy lol
17mrbrightside 1 year ago
What an idiot!
sanjacraven36 1 year ago
He shouldn't of been using a teleprompter. That technology in the 60's would have been very underdeveloped, which as a result made him speak very slowly. I think if he had used good old paper, that speech would have sounded so much better, and it would have sound more 'real'.
joeb50220 1 year ago
Who wrote that awful speech?
bogglerful 1 year ago
huge stepdown compared to kennedy's speech lol
ShakenVodka 1 year ago
One of the absolute worst presidents we've ever had. He kept us in Vietnam because, by his own admission, he was afraid to go against what his Harvard-grad advisors told him to do (because he attended a hick college).
Also, it was Johnson that gave us the nightmare government program called The Great Society. The fool believed that it was somehow a wise thing to get people to use others to get a free ride through life! U.S. tax-payers have ever since suffered greatly due to this fool jackass!!
guyNbluejeans 1 year ago
@guyNbluejeans Yeah I guess medicaid, medicare for your parents was a bad idea. Oh student loans, truth in advertising,headstart for children,Mass transportation act,consumer protection act,National endowments for arts and humanities,
Clean air act, just to name a few, things you take for granted. I guess we should have just given the top @% billionairs a tax break instead. God bless Lyndon Baines Johnson.
mumbleora 1 year ago
@mumbleora The reason I didn't respond to you is that I didn't want to dignify your comments by replying back. But now you push the issue and so here I am.
I don't believe in socialism so there's nothing so wonderful about what you credit the man for as far as I'm concerned. But I'm curious, why did you blow past my criticism regarding him keeping Vietnam going ... and the dreadful Great Society program that has caused so much damage on so many levels?
guyNbluejeans 1 year ago
@guyNbluejeans You don't win no prize because you know what everyone knows that he messed up in the 'Nam. But the Great Society and it's programs was just that.
Great!!
mumbleora 1 year ago
@mumbleora The "prize" is the truth, and it's mine.
guyNbluejeans 1 year ago
@guyNbluejeans Should have read "should have given the top 2% billionaires a tax break" Anyway, Johnson came from poverty, rode the trains, he could relate to the little guy and his programs showed it and they continue to benefit all. LBJ, all the way.
mumbleora 1 year ago
@guyNbluejeans Yeah, I knew you wouldn.t have jack to say. You didn't realize how much of that great society you take for granted. You probably didn't even know what it was, just heard one of these "CON" servative mult-imillionaire radio commentators criticize it up and said, "right on man"
mumbleora 1 year ago
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Nkrumahist 1 year ago
This man, with all his power, single handedly distroyed this county. The great society distroyed the black family and put as many people on the public dole as possible. This man created a dependent society, with many entitlements. The illegitimacy rate in the black family was about 22% in 1960, now its nearly 80%. I blame this on our government and the entitlement mantality. Create a dependent people, and you will gain power.
sirhogin1 1 year ago
@sirhogin1 I'm thinking this 33rd degree mason was behind that knoll. The Scottish Rite Secret of the 33rd degree is Tesla Earthquake British Association Record No. 333 on September 3 at 3:03 p.m. THEY TELL "idiots of the 33rd degree"-Mark Twain THAT THEY CAN MAKE AN EARTHQUAKE IF THEY MEDITATE. Twain knew because his buddy Nikola Tesla made one for the Harriman Expedition in 1899.
insightllc 1 year ago
Lyndon Johnson-is one of te top 5 presidnts of th USA..Historians are rankinhigher as time goes on...He presided over e ngest econmic growth of th US.. Americans of all econmic life, real incomes were going up! Johnson passed major domestic legislation, space program, assistence to the poor, eduation, civil rights, conservation. At the same time, he cutted the Federal budget, creaed fed surpluses, lowered thAmerican debt........Remarkable man!
steveforsane 1 year ago
@steveforsane
steveforsane 1 year ago
lol ha ha loooolll he he not one could match jfk what a weak man lol
cullinane8888 1 year ago
The killer of many. He and McNamara were war criminals and its a good thing the both of them are dead.
silvereagle2061 1 year ago
One thing on which, I think ,we can all agree is that LBJ was the dullest public speaker to occupy the White House in the last half of the twentieth century! He could put a man to sleep quicker than a sleeping tablet.
drjay1116able 1 year ago
@drjay1116able I absolutely agree. This is one of the most uninspiring and boring presidential speeches I have ever heard. This was a time when the country needed inspiration since JFK was killed. It sounds more appropriate as a religious sermon.
USASecretHistory 1 year ago
I would have been very torn in 64' i would have voted for Goldy, but i would have been ok with Johnson winning
sandythebear 1 year ago
Though I totally disagree with Johnsons foreign policy action, he revolutionized america in the sense of passing many domestic policy laws including civil rights bill, age act, voting rights act and a lot more. He also was the president (along with candidate billy goldwater) who preety much changed the whole political party affiliation demographics in the south.
IAMSHAK 1 year ago
Kennedy's image overshadowed his actual accomplishments in what little time he had, but Johnson was for real
sandythebear 1 year ago
I'm a white man and I can't wait for the white people in America to become the minority because they don't deserve what their founders left them and what our Lord and Saviour proclaimed while on earth. The white men has become the slave of the jews/talmudic House of Rothschild/israel. I say let western civilization die and let the barbarians and the animals rule, that is what the white race deserves for allowing it.
doomsdaypreacher 1 year ago 2
it's funny how people think that someone like Lyndon Johnson can replace someone like John F. Kennedy, as a vice president .
mexicangirl95 1 year ago
Decent president (gets a bad rep for Vietnam). Hell of a congressman. Someone who believed in helping the less fortunate.
genxdude1991 1 year ago 14
@genxdude1991 Lyndon Johnson was not a "helluva congressman;" he never once co-sponsored a bill that would have affected the population of the United States as a whole.
He was a pretty scummy guy who got elected to the US Senate by 87 votes and what he had to do to get that to "stick" was totally revolting.
Read what Robert Caro has to say about Johnson; he's written three volumes on LBJ to date.
SatchmoSings 1 year ago
@genxdude1991 You're stupid... he was the worst politician in the history of this country. He murdered Kennedy, blundered in Vietnam, started to bankrupt this country with welfare and just shitted on this country every way he could. Rot in hell bastard.
matrix49A 10 months ago
@matrix49A "...started to bankrupt this country..." You must have him confused with Reagan or Bush Sr. It always amazes me how those two seem to get away in the public opinion with the fiscal havoc and never-ending spending carousel they created. How Reagan can be canonized as a saint of economical responsebility is embarrassing. Just look at the statistics of federal spending and national debt and you'll have it black-on-white.
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@matrix49A "...started to bankrupt this country..." You must have him confused with Reagan or Bush Sr. It always amazes me how those two seem to get away in the public opinion with the fiscal havoc and never-ending spending carousel they created. How Reagan can be canonized as a saint of economical responsebility is embarrassing. Just look at the statistics of federal spending and national debt and you'll have it black-on-white.
TheBushman7 8 months ago
Speaking of LBJ's success on civil rights, I think it almost HAD to be a southern president to convince southern people to agree to his civil rights act if you know what I mean.
byrdsss 1 year ago
Johnson was probably the best President since Roosevelt. The Great Society needs no explanation. And with a generation having passed since Vietnam, I think the argument can be made that a limited war of the non-nuclear variety was necessary to show that Communism had to be confronted somewhere.
TheLastNaturalist 1 year ago
@TheLastNaturalist I don't agree with that theory but Nam was viewed like Korea- stop aggression.
huckstered 1 year ago
he was a very good president just wished that kenndy wasnt assassinated though
ShaunPalmerr 2 years ago 3
@ShaunPalmerr I with you on that....This should have been John Kenendy's Second Inaugural and his shining moment
norr4636 2 years ago 10
@norr4636 Kennedy would not be in very good health if he lived that long.
matrix49A 10 months ago
@matrix49A Sorry..Kennedy would have made this speech if he wasn't killed 14 months earlier..yes he was in bad health
norr4636 8 months ago
@norr4636 you sure this is kennedy johnson and kenn were 2 different people
HoverboardFan14 8 months ago
@HoverboardFan14 I don't know what you're talking about but if you're talking about my post lasy year...This should have been John Kennedy's second Inaugural address.....hadn't Dallas happen 14 months earlier
norr4636 8 months ago
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9/11 "Masterminds" George Bush Sr. and Robert Gates.
WTCnucleardemolition 2 years ago
One of the true great Presidents of this century! Its all been down hill since Johnson! A True president of the American people! God bless President Johnson!
steveforsane 2 years ago
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After tomorrow those goddam Kenndey's will never embarass me again, that's no threat , that's a promise"
Johnson said that one day before JFk was slaughtered.
045781 2 years ago
Democrats claim at "helping the blacks", but poverty gets worse, black on black crime is worse, they suffer in inferior schools because Teacher's Unions won't allow anything but a dumbing down of the schoolchildren, and welfare begets absent fathers, etc. All these black scholars acknowledge, and are the legacy of Democrats. Conservatives see blacks as individuals, not groups. Bush put Condoleeza and Colin to the 2 top posts in the cabinet, on merit, not color, and got no credit for this.
BigBingFan 2 years ago
@BigBingFan utter nonsense and incomprehensible. Bush seems like an outcast
nowadays and will get secret service protedtion for the rest of his life- unlike other presidents. It is no wonder.
huckstered 1 year ago
@huckstered
LBJ on the surface "gave" all these entitlements, the Great Welfare State, which will eventually bankrupt us, just like Greece. Obama, like Johnson is leading us to our death as a democratic republic. LBJ changed much, ONLY because of sympathy for JFK's death--the only reason Goldwater lost; though, thank God, he spawned Reagan after a horrendous Carter ineptitude, just like Obama. You are delusional.
BigBingFan 1 year ago
@BigBingFan . Noone is going broke. Believe all the nonsense
if you please. Look at the percentage of the social social security compared to The Iraq war in terms of the country's expenditures. If we cannot care for our impoverished elderly this is not much of a country
morally. You people which and was philosophical
well, go ahead......... But what LBJ did benefits your unknowing naive self everyday and you haven't the wisdom to even realize it.
huckstered 1 year ago
@huckstered
And you, totally delusional, love Socialism, Big Government taking care of you from cradle to grave, and are totally out of step with reality: Johnson's "Great Society" helped give welfare to whole generations of folks who were INCENTIVIZED to not work, have kids, and take individual responsibiltiy and the work ethic away, and let Government become the "daddy." Do you delusional folks not know what was wrought? Obvioiusly not.
BigBingFan 1 year ago
@BigBingFan Reality and delusion are your favorite words. Small words from a small mind.The truth is we have a health care reform law in effect now. Without LBJ's reforms have helped millions escape poverty and illness. Hide your head
if you want. Reagan was an immoral human being, as is George W. Sensless
slaughter at what cost in Iraq. These costs, human and monetary, need to be
corrected immediately. Bush and Reagan financial and oil deregulation caused
the crises we are in now.
huckstered 1 year ago
@huckstered
YOU are Delusional-because, well, you are. The Left has indoctrinated 2 generations now, with this same diatribe. Do you not know we are BROKE? What has the Welfare state wrought? You are engaged in Stage 1 thinking--only considering feelings and emotions, which is what the LEFT does so well. Stage 2 thinking corresponds to rational & logic-foreign to U. Therefore, this conversation's going nowhere w/your Stage 1 thinking. Delusion fits you. Bye to this diatribe, Stage 1 thinker!
BigBingFan 1 year ago
@BigBingFan Why must you be so redundant with words. The country is not broke .Broke countries cannot wage a high tech war half a world away, Einstein. The difference is that I never forget the poor of this country, the dispossessed,
no health ins, no housing, no job, no hope. You are not ignorant -just blind and a
little inarticulate and very uninformed and have possession of very little humanity.
huckstered 1 year ago
i liked LBJ he was a good president i dont care what people say
TheSouthernCadillac 2 years ago
LBJ one the best presidents in our history not only was he a great president but fine american. GODBLESS LBJ may he rest in peace.
stickyfingers6 2 years ago
He's killing kennedy to becoming president!
TiKiJooOo 2 years ago
This criminal was the first president in my lifetime, and then it just got worse, one after the other criminal.
Which president has not been involved with the demise of this country, its Constitution, Bill of Rights, balance of powers for the people and by the people?
I have not yet made my mind up on the current installation, because the only thing he is trying to do is get re elected, and by doing nothing, his accomplishing his mission.
Ciaresayton 2 years ago
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MadCanada597 2 years ago
Sorry.... Obama.. the current problem, is related to George Bush.
I hit the button before I really looked... just wanted to clarify.
MadCanada597 2 years ago
This guy there was always something funny about him just cant figure ir out. ....?
lol
republicanpolitics4 2 years ago
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maybe its the fact that he had JFK killed?
LBJ was a fucking criminal to say the least
danzor123 2 years ago
I love LBJ but he is sooo boring!
jladrae 2 years ago 5
@jladrae
Yes indeed. The worse speech ever I must say. He really didn't wanna be president. LOL.
CazK88 1 year ago
he seems to be drunken, doesn't he?
BrokenLady 2 years ago 2
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Nicklas2200 2 years ago
Funny how a white southern man did soooooo much for civil rights.
ALEXplus3 2 years ago 5
if it wasnt for the vietnam war lbj would of been one of the best presidents
Mcfreezy18 2 years ago 3
Bullshit. He was a great president to black people and so was Kenendy.
CazK88 2 years ago 13
LBJ took alot of Kennedy's credit after his assassination by continuing Kennedy's civil rights policies. LBJ may have been a Democrat, but he couldn't care less about the Black community. He was as much a criminal as Nixon, and although JFK is a bit overrated on his attitude towards blacks, at least he realized what importance African Americans had on American life, and wanted to do whatever he could to give euel rights among blacks. The only person who was better than JFK? That would be Bobby..
Manbeast222 2 years ago
@Manbeast222
Well just like in history, if the government sees some political benefit in granting rights to blacks thats the only time they will make the move. Lincoln may not have liked blacks himself, yet politically, it was the right move for the country at the time. My statement only stated he was a great president to black people simply because he was politically!
CazK88 2 years ago
@CazK88 actually he didnt really did much black people just kinda liked him
enriquecarloslopezsi 1 year ago
@enriquecarloslopezsi
Actually you need to learn to speak english better.
CazK88 1 year ago
@CazK88 Except the ones he sent to die in Vietnam.
DSXmachine 1 year ago
@CazK88 speech sucked tho
husky528 1 year ago
@husky528
You're entitled to your opinion.
CazK88 1 year ago
@CazK88 yep yep.. another opinion here.. Johnson was a nut.
husky528 1 year ago
@husky528
I hope you accept my opinion in me saying that I think you're a nut.
CazK88 1 year ago
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husky528 1 year ago
@CazK88 Let’s not let this discussion become a forum for personal attacks but take shape to an intellectual arena of historical opposites in view.
husky528 1 year ago
@husky528
Ok, let's debate on the merits then; I say Johnson was a great president to blacks and he continued the push for civil rights that has morally united us more than divided us. The only thing that destroyed Johnson was 'Nam.
CazK88 1 year ago
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husky528 1 year ago
@CazK88
That sounds great and all but in reality it was John Kennedy’s bill for civil rights which was introduced before he died. Second, both Kennedys battled with Southern states on such issue. Johnson merely had to do it in memory of the slain president. Last, Johnson reversed Kennedy’s executive order, ordering the military to withdraw from Vietnam by 1965, Kennedy saw the wreck and Johnson wasn’t a good enough leader to put aside his pride or fear of the military industrial complex.
husky528 1 year ago
@husky528
I didn't deny that Kennedy was not the initial crafter of civil rights legislation, pal. I clearly said "continued"; therefore, suggesting that a predecessor was the pioneer of it. Johnson did not only do it in the memory of the slain president, he did it because he shared the same values as Kennedy did. That's why he got picked for VP in the first place. You aren't telling me anything new. I didn't ask you to teach I asked you to debate. I can already see you are a partial reader.
CazK88 1 year ago
@CazK88
Well that may sound good in your world, but I live in a little place called reality. Unlike you I know the Kennedy’s were despised by Johnson as he called them “The Irish Mob”. He openly hated Bobby Ken. and was picked for VP to get Kennedy the Southern white vote, other than that he was a hard core conservative Kennedy didn’t want. Reversing the executive order in Vietnam is a clear sign of an objection to Kennedy as President and his disregard as a slain diplomat.
husky528 1 year ago
@husky528
Don't confuse reality with fantasy, friend. What you fail to understand is that most of the reasoning behind why Kennedy picked Johnson was during the initial campaign phase. Sure, it was to get the southern white vote, but a campaign lasts only 2 years prior to the presidency. Afterwards, in terms of policy Johnson and Kennedy saw eye to eye. Look it up. The facts are there. Just because he reversed the E.O., doesn't solely mean he objected Kennedy. He did pass the civil rights bill!
CazK88 1 year ago
@CazK88 Fantasy is relevant sir. You see when Kennedy became the Dem Nominee he had to get Johnson as VP, everyone opposed him, his staff, his brother, his advisors. Thanks to Johnson he was able to slip by and get the Presidency. Without Kennedy’s sharp thinking he would have lost against Nixon. Johnson was chosen for the election only. Other than that Johnson wasn’t much help in the Missile Crisis, the struggle with civil rights, or the peace core, Kennedy was real the architect of the 60’s.
husky528 1 year ago
@husky528
Fantasy is not relevant in a reality subject, sir. We are speaking about what happened, not the idealistic approach. I agree Kennedy was the architect. I told you in the previous messages that he was the pioneer, but you have to give the credit to Johnson who actually executed the bill to become law. For all that matter, Johnson could've just been a southern redneck and not give a damn about civil rights and not pass it. So you cannot discredit Johnson. He played a part in this too.
CazK88 1 year ago
@CazK88 Fantasy is relevant in this instance for you believe Johnson was a good guy. The civil rights movement was not going to hold silent for Johnson to pass or veto it, it was a movement that was not going to stop regardless. So let’s not give credit where credit does not belong.
husky528 1 year ago
@husky528
I don't use fantasy. That's you making statements you cannot prove. He was not unfavorable to the Democratic Party! Johnson was greatly supported by the Democratic Party and was responsible for designing the Great Society legislation that included laws that upheld civil rights, Public Broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, aid to education, and his War on Poverty. He had a major influence with coercive tactics to pass legislation like this. FACTS!
CazK88 1 year ago
@CazK88 Again that all sounds good an all but environmental protection, education, and his War on Poverty, that pushes you off the cliff there, the Environmental Protection Agency was started by Nixon, Education began its decent, and what war on poverty? I applaud Johnson on Medicare, but his social security wasn’t thought through, and his idiocy in the Vietnam was a self-destruction.
husky528 1 year ago
@husky528
You just don't want to accept the facts, pal. That confirms your fantasizing. That was NOT started by Nixon, the effects may had been seen by Nixon because funding needed to be appropriated, but as I said civil rights, Public Broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, aid to education, and his War on Poverty were all pioneered by Johnson. Nixon didn't give a damn about civil rights or public policy. He catered more to foreign policy, and that's where he is known well.
CazK88 1 year ago
@husky528
Nixon proposed the Environmental Protection Agency, that's where he gets credit for EPA; however, environmental protection was something done since Johnson was in office. As the need for E.P. was rising, Nixon supported the development of the EPA in the 1970s. Nixon, again, did not pioneer or architect the practice of environmental protection. That was under Johnson! You remind me of one of those conspiracy theorists..like the Obama birthers and 9/11 truthers. Go somewhere with that.
CazK88 1 year ago
@CazK88 Huh? What? You brushed aside the fact that Johnson had no just cause and for several years Americans did not know why we were still in Vietnam. The Cold War was no longer a viable excuse because Americans began to see the bullshit spewing from Johnson. Regardless of what I remind you of its rude calling someone old man, which shows you’ve parted from reasonable argument and began the insults. How does 9/11 and Obama fit in the 1960’s?
husky528 1 year ago
@husky528 Hahaha! Your responses are so weak! I didn't bring up the fact that Johnson didn't go to war with a just cause because I never called him a hero, lol! I thought we covered this subject already. The Cold War was a valid excuse. What are you talking about? We went in because of the Cold War, and the American people knew that. Nixon was no better because he continued the troop movement.
CazK88 1 year ago
@CazK88 Rigghtt.. I guess this debate has turned into a circus.. good day sir.
husky528 1 year ago
@husky528
Keep reading, it'll make you look intelligent. Bye.
CazK88 1 year ago
@CazK88 i've read enough old man
husky528 1 year ago
@husky528
Too soon old, too late smart, kid!
CazK88 1 year ago
@CazK88
Nixon proposed the Environmental Protection Agency, that's where he gets credit for EPA; however, environmental protection was something done since Johnson was in office. As the need for E.P. was rising, Nixon supported the development of the EPA in the 1970s. Nixon, again, did not pioneer or architect the practice of environmental protection. That was under Johnson!
CazK88 1 year ago
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husky528 1 year ago
I see you corrected yourself there, always a good sign. Nixon didn’t need to care about Civil rights because it was over with. I accept facts, I don’t accept Johnson portrayed as a hero. Heroes do not start wars and slaughter civilians over idiotic beliefs, regardless of what he did, his actions in Vietnam destroyed public opinion for the US around the world, his reversal and slap in Kennedy’s face by staying in Vietnam was his kissing of the Military’s ass. That’s why Kennedy was taken out.
husky528 1 year ago
@husky528
No I corrected you. I never did say Nixon was ever for civil rights. The argument was about Johnson. I see you try too hard being right, and it just doesn't work for you. If you accept facts, you wouldn't be fantasizing. Here you go on a tangent, and we are supposed to be debating about Johnson. You are just a mad old man trying to change something that can't be changed. There can be heroes who start wars, but for a just cause. And you are wrong about Kennedy's assassination.
CazK88 1 year ago
what a loser. he started the decline.
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JeffreyJayFisher 2 years ago
....is not mine alone but ours together.....
Puckhog9 2 years ago 2
snorefest!
88mphsss 2 years ago
wheres Big Boss?
Ironmaiden654 2 years ago 2
FOUR MORE YEARS
mossimo654 2 years ago 3
I just saw 2 teleprompters.
texas224 2 years ago
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Fuck LBJ ist's all bout Goldwater/Miller 64
freakylocz14 2 years ago
GET REAL! Goldwater's ass was handed to him in '64.
Suprkit 2 years ago 13
@Suprkit
Look what Goldwater spawned. After 1980 it would be another generation before a President like Lyndon Johnson could get elected.
NYerintransit 2 years ago
But we still got one. It may take a while for a good President or two to come along,but eventually we make the right choise for the nation.
Suprkit 2 years ago
i think LBJ was a great pesident!
zipsmash 1 year ago 2
What is it with presidents from Texas and starting unnecessary wars?!
akhtrah 2 years ago
Presidents make mistakes!!! You just have to put yourself in their shoes and try to relate to how they think!!!
mackela30 2 years ago
Watching this speech, on what was undoubtedly a happy day for Johnson, makes me think of the difficult days that were to come for him and the country. However, he knew what was on the horizon, even at this point...
titans0002 2 years ago 2
no he did it wrong hes supposed to announce the former presidents that are there at the begining
wiiguy145 2 years ago
Too bad Vietnam overshadowed a very impressive record especially the domestic one. So much of what and others in congress passed is now forgotten history. LBJ was the last President of the legalized segregated America.
bikr0 2 years ago 6
Very true. How much courage it must've taken for JBL, the Democrat Senate majority leader from Texas, to collaborate with Eisenhower to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and then as our US president pass IMO the greatest civil rights act in our history, the Civil Rights act of 1964: the end of institutional segregation in the US. We still got a long way to go before racism is dead, but LBJ gave us one hell of a push. People like him and Sam Houston make me proud to be born Texan.
sirpsychosexay 2 years ago 3
you all need to show some respect. lbj should be deified.
bobdolecult 2 years ago
if only I believed in Deifying men....
unless I guess it's Ross Perot
mossimo654 2 years ago
Proof that you don't need speaking skills to win a landslide, just good marketing lol.
sirpsychosexay 2 years ago
does he talk slow enough
xxBigDxx 2 years ago
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He was one of the worst because he added the socialist programs of mrdicare and medicaid to social security.
derrike50 2 years ago
LBJ responsible for the Vietnam War. Bush started Iraq, Obama lied and said troops were coming home instead we just move to another country, how lovely.
Both parties are full of liars.
freakylocz14 2 years ago
What else do you expect from politicians?
pspguy28 2 years ago
Amen!
freakylocz14 2 years ago
And you get thumbs down for speaking the truth, how typical of partisans.
sirpsychosexay 2 years ago
Whenever im having problems sleeping, I'll just watch this
MrPar24 2 years ago
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Biffandango 2 years ago
OMG.!! i will be presenting this speech on friday!!!
help me god!
wish me luck people :]
kimmiyow 2 years ago 2
Not really a Vietnam supporter, but damn this guy knew how to run a country. One of the best things to ever happen to America, and I rank him the 5th best president ever.
AlecBoy006 2 years ago 4
His intentions with the Great Society a the beginning of his presidency were good but he wasted it all by escalating an immoral war that saw the deaths of thousands of Ameircan soldiers. What a terrible waste of life.
schrollG 2 years ago
Not just his intentions, but he succeeded with the Great Society Act in what was the New Deal of the 1960's. In this point in time, facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, that's another reason to appreciate LBJ. The economy did wonderful under LBJ, with an unemployment at just 3% in 1968. No President is perfect, not even Johnson, but he was still one of the best.
AlecBoy006 2 years ago 3
@AlecBoy006 He'd be 16th best ever on my list.
mr19932001 1 year ago
@mr19932001 And what's your reasoning for that?
AlecBoy006 1 year ago
@AlecBoy006 Overall, I think LBJ was a good president, but I wouldn't go as far as calling him great because of the Vietnam war, Kennedy was slightly better than LBJ, and the only president after Eisenhower, in my opinion, who desrves to be in the top 10 best presidents list is Bill Clinton, but LBJ was way better than Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush1, Bush2, and Obama.
mr19932001 1 year ago
@mr19932001 I'm sorry. But I don't see how Kennedy was slightly better. Many tend to credit JFK for Civil Rights, but he deemed it politically impossible. LBJ messed up Vietnam, but before his death JFK said there was no way we could pull out. I just don't think Kennedy was the most honest person. There are rumors he was behind Marilyn's murder and also LBJ admitted the JFK administration killed Diem.
AlecBoy006 1 year ago
@AlecBoy006 LBJ could've pulled out, but instead, he let the war get escalated to over 500,000 troops, compare that to Kennedy only having 16,000 combat troops there, I doubt Kennedy would've allowed things to get that bad, and I don't credit Kennedy for Civil Rights legislation, that was all LBJ, JFK had nothing to do with it, JFk's involvment in Marilyn's murder is just a rumor. I think JFK was slightly better because he was successful with both foreign and domestic policy.
mr19932001 1 year ago
@mr19932001 It was Kennedy's bill that pass in '64...but yes Johnson pushed it through
norr4636 8 months ago
@AlecBoy006 LBJ didn't accomplish anything with foreign policy. Jimmy Carter accomplished more in that area than he did. The only 2 presidents that did worse than Johnson in that area were George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
mr19932001 1 year ago
@mr19932001 I respect your opinion. But I feel that LBJ should at least be credited for the Dominican intervention as far as foreign policy goes. Lives were saved when he sent troops there to help.
AlecBoy006 1 year ago
@AlecBoy006 I respect your opinion as well. Usually no one respects my opinion on youtube because I'm not afraid to give a president credit when he deserves it, and I now know someone does.
mr19932001 1 year ago
@mr19932001 That's good man. Stick to that attitude. Tell things you believe, not what others want to hear.
AlecBoy006 1 year ago
@mr19932001 How do you compare 8 years of presidency with a president who barely has two? you want to lump Bushes mess onto Obamas lap. They haven't even been in the WH long enough to change a light bulb yet.It take longer than 2 yrs to clean up 8 yrs of crap, and he actually has more respect world wide than bush left with.
mumbleora 1 year ago
@mumbleora I'm not lumping Bush's mess on Obama's lap, dispite what happened 2 weeks ago and what the media has to say, I still would take Obama over Bush, but I also keep in mind that he hasn't given us real healthcare reform becuase he tried to compromise with the GOP, the party that created this mess,his poliies in Afghanistan are no diffrent from Bush's, did not put up a good enough fight for the repeal of "Don't ask Don't Tell" and is now caving into the GOP by extending the Tax Cuts.
mr19932001 1 year ago
he makes me go to sleep
masterlee123 2 years ago
His speech sucks, if it were JFK he would've given us another amazing speech.
ItsBuzzkill 2 years ago
you lead us all right lbj, right into a useless senseless war you dumbass
flopdanuts23 2 years ago
you got that right bro. HE WAS ALL WRONG
YodaBannon 2 years ago