Unpopular Opinion LBJ was one of the best presidents in US history
Posted by Thatirishlad06
Unpopular Opinion LBJ was one of the best presidents in US history
Posted by Thatirishlad06
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TRUE
Without Vietnam, he’s unquestionably the GOAT for me, but oof that is a massive, massive asterisk.
Die was already cast on Vietnam before he entered office
This sub has been taken over by social-democrats lmao
Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Section 8 housing, SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid, Pell grants, public transit like WMATA, etc.
He’s Top 10 for sure. Same with Obama.
Great domestic policy; bad foreign policy.
He’s in the top 10 according to the latest scholar surveys and even popular opinion polls.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States
His foreign policy-wise was, to put it mildly, questionable: The Vietnam quagmire, covering up (and even assisting) the Indonesian Mass Killings of 1965-66 under the pretense of anti-communism
But his domestic Great Society agenda was nothing short of transformative. The 1964 Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and the 1965 Immigration Act are amongst the most consequential in American History.