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This is a photograph of LBJ in Vietnam, glad-handing some of the troops he sent there. LBJ may have been a hawk, but judging from historical accounts and oral biographies, he agonized mightily over every single decision he made in that war.
Ed. note: Re-reading this later, I feel the need to amend that last sentence, or rather, add one more sentence::::::::::::::
That doesn't mean that nearly every single decision he made in "the fog of war" wasn't wrong. As much as I loved the man for his actions for equal rights, and against poverty, the war was his Achille's heel. That doesn't change the great things he did, but still, a dark cloud hangs over his legacy. /jb
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