Sunday, March 9, 2014

Is LBJ making a comeback?

A few weeks ago around President Day,a saw polling data for recents Presidents and was surprised that Lyndon Baines Johnson(LBJ) have sixty percent approval rating.He certainly didn't have when left office in 1968,indeed,he was broken man much despised by his fellow countrymen as warmonger,faker and sugardaddy.Yes,the Vietnam War is main reason he was so unpopular,but also enlargement government,for in a way,he is artichect of our eventual bankruptcy.
LBJ until recently was very tradey figure,for Vietnam dominated people's thoughts about and of course the growth of government,however,he was the Civil Wars President,indeed,in a way,he was the second Lincoln.
Though many people see his Presidency as failure,it's undisputed he was most successful majority leader in history.But it did seems talents that sevred so well as majority leader failed him president.
In Robert caro book,"The Years of Lyndon Johnson Master of the Senate" you see how was,indeed,the master of Senate.For example,he wanted Hubert Humphrey(Mr. Civil Rights) to be a bridge to liberals in the Senate to old gurad Southern segregationist,who ran the Senate in nineten fifies.This is how he did,he go up to lion of Senate Walter George and say Hubert Humphrey would like to speak to you.George would say,"what does S.O.B want? Johnson would say no,no you got wrong.Humphrey told me,that when foreign policy is being disgust and Senator George is speaking Humphrey makes sure is at the Senate floor because nobody knows more about foreign policy then Senator George.Then George sayed I see,and meeting was set up and the two hit off.
A story about LBJ as President,when asked why didn't firer Hoover? His answer was,I rather have him pissing in  the tent,then outside it.
Of course,it's 50 years since 1964 Civil Right bill and the War on Poverty(which many think Poverty win) some much media of LBJ this year even a play.Of course,the media love his program but hated him because he was Texan and the beloved John Kennedy was murdered and how LJB become President. 

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