Prager University: Lyndon B. Johnson: The Not-So-Great Society with Amity Shlaes

Very recommendable! Was LBJ more socialist than FDR? According to this video, the answer is unequivocally yes!

Prager University: Lyndon B. Johnson and the Vietnam War

Very recommendable! LBJ certainly was a very controversial U.S. President!

MOST CORRUPT: Lyndon Baines Johnson - LBJ

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MOST CORRUPT: Lyndon Baines Johnson

Recommendable! LBJ was most certainly very controversial! Was LBJ involved in the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy? Did he have his his sister killed who posed a threat to his career, because of what she knew about him? 

PBS Glorification Of President Johnson

Posted: 8/8/2015

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Just watched JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness presented by PBS Secrets of the Dead series. Unfortunately, I do not have the time to go into any details of this video.

I suppose, this video was part of the ongoing celebration of the socialist legislation called Medicare, which passed under LBJ 50 years ago or the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Quick Notes On U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson

I consider him to be next to Theodore Roosevelt, his cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson to be the worst socialist presidents of the 20th century. All these presidents have expanded big government, and big business at the expense of individual liberty, free markets, and federalism.  These presidents have enlarged presidential power and authority in unprecedented ways except for Abraham Lincoln.

I would argue that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is another prime example of federal government overreach and federal government taking control of state and local affairs. This struggle for equal voting rights for black americans should have been fought at the state level. This certainly would have taken longer, but it would have been much healthier for individual liberty and federalism in this country!

The brute force and one size fits all solutions coming from the federal government or the U.S. Congress are detrimental to and in violation of the Declaration of Independence.

The Unconditional War On Poverty By President Johnson

The Democratic Party Should Be Deeply Ashamed!

As we look back on 50 years of this absurd war, I would like to remind the reader that President Lyndon B. Johnson said following in his first State Of The Union address delivered on 1/8/1964 (Emphasis added):

1. “Let this session of Congress be known as the session which did more for civil rights than the last hundred sessions combined; … as the session which declared all-out war on human poverty and unemployment in these United States”
2. “For the war against poverty will not be won here in Washington.”
3. “This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America. I urge this Congress and all Americans to join with me in that effort.”
4. “Our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it. ”

Had anyone else but the President of the U.S. spoken these words, the person would have been declared insane or a warmonger on his own people.

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