[ko_kyi]

LBJ isn't mentioned because they want to pretend that the Vietnam War was thought up by Nixon.

[dljordan]

"LBJ isn't mentioned because they want to pretend that the Vietnam War was thought up by Nixon."

I have a "progressive" friend that truly believes that Nixon started the war.

[Young Werther]

You know I'm sick and tired of all this revisionist history bunk. The seeds of the Viet Nam War were sown by that evil Republican President Harry Truman and the Containment Policy of his advisor McKenna. The Viet Nam policy was further exacerbated by those Evil "initialed" Pubs JFK and LBJ.

Of course it was Nixom's fault! The 20 years prior to his taking office was an era or piece and prop-scarcity. We need only look at Korea, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Greece, Turkey, Isreal and Cuba to name just a few places where "Truth, Justice and "All that stuff" could be found!

[KC_Conspirator]

LBJ isn't mentioned because they want to pretend that the Vietnam War was thought up by Nixon.

There you go. Plus, even LBJ was an awful president, he was still a patriot as far as I could tell.

[RobbyS]

You got it. The inconvenient fact that he pulled the troops out of Vietnam is ignored. That he didn't pull them out immediately was held to be awful his opponents wanted an immidate take-over of South Viet Nam by the North. The majority of the casualties that we took in Nam occured before Nixon took office, but you would never know that.

[Lancey Howard]

LBJ isn't mentioned because they want to pretend that the Vietnam War was thought up by Nixon.

I remember wondering back at Christmastime '68, why did President Nixon ever get us into this crazy war? It's seared into my brain.