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President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Nov 12, 2016.

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  1. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Maybe. Robert McNamara, who steered LBJ into Vietnam full-throttle, was a carryover from JFK.
     
    Starman, Jan 22, 2020
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  2. Pilot

    Pilot Well-Known Member

    A lot of people here probably know better than I do, but watching the Ken Burns Vietnam series in 2017 got me reading a lot of Vietnam War history, and my takeaway from the bulk of it was we were already balls deep and cruising for a disaster by the time Kennedy was killed and there wasn't anything he or anyone else was likely to do to change things. Sure, they COULD have, but the way things were set up for there to be a tremendous political price for pulling out or severely limiting our engagement.
     
    Pilot, Jan 22, 2020
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  3. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    HanSenSE, Jan 22, 2020
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  4. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    Neutral Corner, Jan 22, 2020
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  5. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    The shame is LBJ is forever linked by most to Vietnam and not the Great Society.
     
    Driftwood, Jan 22, 2020
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  6. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Read Doris Kearns Goodwin's book on LBJ.
     
    3_Octave_Fart, Jan 22, 2020
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  7. cyclingwriter2

    cyclingwriter2 Well-Known Member

    Also, someone to love is forever linked by most to Jefferson Airplane and not the Great Society.
     
    cyclingwriter2, Jan 22, 2020
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  8. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    If I had the time, I'd read Robert Caro's. Although 4 volumes in and he hasn't gotten past 1964
     
    heyabbott, Jan 22, 2020
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  9. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Too dense.
    I've had Gibbon on the shelf for 20 years.
    Maybe if ever laid up it might be instructional to finally break it out. The material is rather current.

    One could spend a lifetime just studying the 1960s.
     
    3_Octave_Fart, Jan 22, 2020
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  10. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Schiff just finished his opening. Kudos.
     
    Songbird, Jan 22, 2020
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  11. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member


    how embarrassing for the media
     
    DanielSimpsonDay, Jan 22, 2020
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  12. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    Have I been sleeping for all these years?
    Is it magic that makes you appear?
    When you walked in the oval I felt my heart break
    But you in a mood when I look at your face
    In your tweets I sense a danger
    You've got the eyes of a stranger

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    garrow, Jan 22, 2020
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