All This Is That: POTUS 36: Pres. Lyndon Baines Johnson - Majority Leader, Accidental President, Hawk

Monday, April 11, 2005

POTUS 36: Pres. Lyndon Baines Johnson - Majority Leader, Accidental President, Hawk

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I've written a couple of times about Lyndon Johnson, the hero, and Lyndon Johnson, the paranoid and bellicose monster. When I did my series on Heroes And Villains, I considered using a picture of him as both the hero and the villain.

Some of my favorite political books have been Lyndon Johnson biographies and studies. Recently, the movie Fog of War was an fascinating rehash of LBJ, the unwitting inheritor of an unwinnable (as he seemed to know from the get-go) war.

If you get a chance, the LBJ museum in Austin, TX, is worth an afternoon visit.
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