I always thought LBJ, Kennedy was distraught
at the killing of Diem and wanted to pull out of
Vietnam, but LBJ needed the war to continue to
cover for the institution of his “Great Society”
socialization program, also NASA was eating up
a lot of money that could pay for it.
Just my guess.
Maybe there’s an angle I’m not catching, but it seems to me that the cost of the war would have made it harder to pay for the “Great Society” programs, not easier.
It all came out of the federal budget. Without the cost of the war, wouldn’t there have been much more funds for those programs?
It would be interesting to know how much of our $20 trillion in debt is directly related to the “Great Society” / “War on Poverty” programs also.