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...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...
...where it's at, they said, since most Americans are "unyoung, unpoor and unblack." Street crime and the fear of young protestors are the most pressing issues on the minds of American voters in the 1970's, and politicians who fail to realize this will certainly be defeated. LBJ moderate columnists like John Roche and Evans-Novak beat their centrist drums on behalf of the book, and The Real Majority enjoyed the peculiar American honor of becoming more than a book. Like Portnoy's Complaint, it became an event unto itself...
...McCloskey campaign in New Hampshire is perhaps the most important of the liberal candidates since he alone poses a threat to Nixon's party nomination. Haunted by the spectre of the impact of the McCarthy victory against LBJ in '68, Nixon has decided to revise his schedule so that he will campaign at least three or four days in the state...