Word: lbj
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHAT is really unacceptable in the vocabulary of the polite is talk of the aggressive war in Vietnam. Similarly, when antiwar students greeted President Johnson with chants of "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?", even the most antiwar liberal commentators deemed this a rude address, bereft of the reverence befitting the President...
Only in 1964 did the machine falter. The county joined LBJ's landslide victory over Barry Goldwater. Nether Providence, a township just south of Media, did not join the festivities. Goldwater won big there, as did Nixon in 1960, 1968, and 1972. The machine in Nether Providence clicked, whirred, and continued to hum, smoothly functioning as it is today...
...FAMILIAR and correct ingredients marked the counter-inaugural antiwar march last month. Banners and buttons, leaflets and posters, slogans and speakers--all reiterated themes initiated almost a decade ago. "Hey, Hey, LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today" had metamorphosed into "Nixon, You Liar, Sign The Cease-fire," but the tone of voice was identical...
Furthermore, Johnson wasn't tragically trapped into the war, as is suggested in the twaddle you have been printing. U.S. involvement in Vietnam started long before 1964, but LBJ consciously chose to carry out major escalations of the level of violence. While I and many other naive Americans were campaigning for him because he sounded more peaceful than Goldwater, Johnson was planning the Tonkin Gulf incident, a fraud designed to trick us into supporting a massive U.S. role in Vietnam. (This is documented in the Pentagon Papers.) Hitler staged a fake Polish attack on German troops to justify starting World...
...current hosannas to the War on Poverty are being issued by people who did not suffer from poverty either before or after the Johnson administration. As I remember those years, poverty was much in the news--primarily because poor blacks expressed their discontent in a series of ghetto riots. LBJ compassionately responded by sending in troops (indeed, there was a unity to his foreign and domestic policy, as someone quoted in the Crimson implied) and by setting up a Study Commission to meditate on the problem...