Jerry Shugart
Well-known member
As for Nixon; he was even worse....
There was no one more responsible for the long national nightmare of the Vietnam war than LBJ. It appeared that JFK was planning on pulling the American advisors out of Vietnam not long before his death. Eisenhower had said upon leaving office, "Beware of the Military Industrial Complex," and there were many people from that group who hated Kennedy, including the top dogs at the CIA (Alan Dulles and the Bay of Pigs Disaster). They wanted an expanded war there. So those people were natural allies of Johnson because both wanted Kennedy dead.
It was no coincidence that Dulles ended up on the Warren Commision. For more on Dulles' role in the assassination see this link:
https://www.democracynow.org/2015/10/19/a_cia_tie_to_jfk_assassination
After a short time as President Johnson realized that Vietnam was a lost cause but he could not pull out because his cohorts were making too much money. His hands were tied and in the end the war destroyed him. And it almost destroyed the whole country and he did irreparable harm to my generation, buddies of mine who died for no good reason.
This is the saddest story in my life so I cannot imagine that anyone has been a worse President than LBJ! The biggest slime ball of them all!