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Old 08-26-2010, 09:19 AM   #211
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I agree with you that LBJ's foreign policy left a lot to be desired, but he single handedly pushed the Civil Rights Act through when no one else could have. The legislature was so scared of LBJ they did what he wanted. That single achievement puts him above a ton of other presidents in my book.
Sure, I don't disagree with that, however I still think that his secretary of defense McNamara should have been charged with war crimes against his own country.

He sent hundreds if not thousands of American's to their deaths due to his decision to run the war from his office.
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