VIEWPOINT: McGovern Warns Obama of LBJ Legacy

In 1964, President Johnson said of Vietnam that I don't think it's worth fighting for, and I don't think that we can get out. Its just the biggest damn mess I ever saw.'' Yet Johnson escalated the conflict and America became bogged down in Southeast Asia for more than a decade. Former Senator George McGovern recently sat down with ANP and said that President Obama runs the risk, like Johnsons Great Society, of hobbling his ambitious domestic goals if he continues to send troops into Afghanistan.

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• George McGovern
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• Lyndon Johnson
• The Great Society
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• 1972
• Richard Nixon
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• Vietnam

[seamoremonster]

Johnson did some wonderful things for Americans....his "Great Society" took giant steps to bring American minorities towards true equity but all these great things were tainted by our involvement in Viet Nam. McGovern is offering sage advice here. Let's hope Obama and the rest of the U.S. listen.

[dkkght46]

George McGovern, a great American and a B-24 pilot of WW II. God bless you for your service to our country and freeing Europe from the grasp of Nazism and Facism.

[RoonGang09]

Lol, Obama is no LBJ. Johnson would have this Repub Congress in check today because he had a backbone.

[racer500gp]

@WWETNAwrestlingfan15 That's your right as an American. I support that.

[WWETNAwrestlingfan15]

@racer500gp Well I wasn't alive in 72' but I can tell after what I've learned, listened to, read and seen. The Devil himself would have had a better chance of getting my vote for President ot the United States.

[racer500gp]

@WWETNAwrestlingfan15 Damn right i am.

[WWETNAwrestlingfan15]

@racer500gp Are you proud of that?

[TheFrogger15]

@whoo689 When President Truman left Office in January 1953, there was no pension allotted for Ex-Presidents as there is today. He lived in the house that was owned by his wife's family. His only income was his World War 1 pension which was just a little over a hundred dollars a month w/ no healthcare provided.

[racer500gp]

I voted for Nixon in 1972.

[whoo689]

What I find ironic, or maybe odd, is that the FIRST Medicare recipient was Truman. Now, Truman served as president for eight years, so that in and of itself should've given him quite a bit of income to save up. He could've EASILY afforded to buy his own health insurance! Besides, healthcare costs back in those years were WAY LOWER than today. If you ask me, the need for Medicare seems to be practically null back then. Were prescription drugs that costly then?

[warrenbattistejazz]

George McGovern lost his liberal ass in a run for president. One of the worst thrashings in history. For once he is right. Obama a naked communist in the white house.