We're now on the 35th day of my daily presidents threads celebrating the 250th anniversary of the USA.Today we have Lyndon B. Johnson (8/27/1908 - 1/22/1973), who served as president after Kennedy's assassination from 1963 to 1968. Prior to being president, he served as a senator and representative from Texas, and also served in the Navy during World War II.Notable actions or events during his presidency include the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Great Society, the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, the Food Stamp Act of 1964, the War on Poverty, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Transportation, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Child Nutrition Act, Executive Order 11375, the Nomination of Thurgood Marshall, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. What do you think of the man with the magnum dong?Link to previous thread>>18542650
>>18544108How would you deal with the "Johnson treatment"?
>>18544117Hug him and tell him it's going to be alright
Destroyed America forever. 1/10 president.
Take a look to the sky just before you dieIt's the last time you willBlackened roar, massive roar fills the crumbling sky
>>18544129>Today I was walking down the street and saw a brown person talking to a white woman. I could actually feel myself being genocided. Help me, /pol/!
>Johnson had a major heart attack in July 1955. He gave up smoking afterward, but resumed it after leaving the White House, saying "I'm an old man, what does it matter? I always loved cigarettes and I don't want to linger like Eisenhower did, when I go I want it to be quick." He suffered another heart attack in June 1972 while visiting his daughter Lynda in Virginia. Johnson suffered frequent episodes of chest pain afterward due to the incident causing the death of a portion of his heart muscle. Still, he continued to chain smoke and eat a junk food diet.>On January 22, 1973, two Secret Service agents found the former president dead in his bed at his Texas ranch, having been apparently stricken while trying to reach for the telephone. An autopsy found that two of Johnson's coronary arteries were completely occluded, the third was 80% occluded.[2]
>>18544129the immigration quotas of 1924 didn't restrict anything from Latin America though
>>18544108Remember that this dude cost us the USS Pueblo and started the gulf of Tonkkin false flag for the Zionists.
>"I'll have those catfaggots voting Democratic for the next 200 years"unironically what did he mean by this
>>18544288>Remember that this dude cost us the USS Pueblohow?
>>18544296He should never have sent an espionage ship into enemy waters disguised as a merchant vessel in the first place. As president he shouldn’t allow his own navy to do stuff like that.
>>18544301NTA but the vessel was captured in international waters in the Sea of Japan, it didn't enter North Korea's territorial waters.
>>18544309+4 Yes. North Korea has consistently claimed that the USS Pueblo (Wikipedia) deliberately intruded into their territorial waters on a spy mission.The Conflicting ClaimsNorth Korea's Stance: They stated the vessel was operating illegally 7.6 nautical miles from Ryo Island and presented alleged logbooks as proof.U.S. Stance: The United States maintained the ship was in international waters roughly 16 miles off the coast
>>18544309>>18544301What was going on then was that they were engaged in a mass campaign of guerrilla raids and sabotage across the DMZ which included the accidental assassination of South Korean president Park Chung Hee's wife during an attempt on his life. The Korean peninsula was very much a hot zone and of value for US intelligence assets to monitor.
in April '69 KPA forces shot down a EC-121 spyplane over the Sea of Japan, although it was over international waters and not in North Korea's airspace. this was apparently some officer acting on his own initiative without orders and he was probably gulaged/shot for it afterward because doing anything in North Korea without top-down orders is a no-no. however the regime tried to put a good face on it by pretending the plane did overfly their airspace and was shot down deliberately. in addition China and the USSR became disturbed at Pyongyang's spate of aggressive actions in the late 60s as they feared it could result in war with the US breaking out and told them to kindly stop doing that.
>>18544351Nixon debated retaliation against Pyongyang but finally decided not to as the US military was tied down in Vietnam and could spare no resources for a potential conflict in NE Asia.
>>18544108The texan oil wildcats and dam constructors were part to what lead and funded lbj’s rise to power and to senate majority leader
>>18544868as well as the farm lobby--he opposed Operation Wetback since a lot of his constituents were using cheap illegal workers
>>18544868The first time he ran for Senate was in 1942 against incumbent W. Lee Daniel. At the time Texas was a Solid South state where Democrats ran in the general election essentially unopposed so the Democrat primary was considered the "real" election. Anyway, Daniel beat Johnson by cheating, so he was humiliated and determined to never let that happen again so when the Senate seat was up for grabs again six years later he managed to out-cheat Daniel enough to take the nomination from him.
>>18544108>libshits love this guy even though he got us entangled in Vietnam and destroyed the economy because he heckin freed le niggerinos
He's a funny guy but he's by a mile one of the worst presidents in U.S history for a billion different reasons and the revisionist campaign in defense of him since 2020 by establishment liberals has been fucking crazy and proof that American politics on all sides has reached peak brainrot.
>>18545225>>18544956the left obviously didn't love the guy back then when they were in the streets chanting hey hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today?
>>18545440>the left obviously didn't love the guy back thenNobody did, the fucker got close to getting primaried despite being a sitting president which has never happened in American history before because of how very deeply hated he was.
>>18545029>>18544108Then Lyndon Johnson took his spot.
>>18545225>since 2020He's been regularly considered a top tier president by historians since his term.
>>18546486>regularly considered a top tier president by historians since his term.Lol, lmao even. Him and Grant have both been overly sanitized and romanticized in recent years for nakedly political reasons despite being widely hated for decades before then.I know it sounds like I'm a Dixiecrat saying that but it's true. LBJ was often cited as a warning, not an example, by liberal policymakers/thinktanks for decades and the smarter ones still do.
>>18546486Vietnam alone was such a poorly approached mess that it merits him in the lower ranks of presidents, even with his other accomplishments. Historians seem to understate how poorly the entire thing was approached, politically, strategically, and economically. The affects weren’t just abroad, but it weighed heavily on America’s economy, geopolitical standing, and even domestic stability.>>18546487Grant’s improvement in historical approach has reason. While his cabinet was a mess, there was a lack of his own personal involvement in the scandals. He did though fixed up much of the mess that was Reconstruction after years of Executive-Legislative infighting.
>>18546487You can see for yourself. He was ranked the 10th best president in his first appearance in the 1982 survey.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States#Scholar_survey_summary
>>18546503>He was ranked the 10th best president in his first appearance in the 1982 survey.That's because the 1982 survey is split between "liberal" vs. "conservative" like all political science is in the U.S. Lists that are non-partisan tend to rank him more firmly in the lower middle where he belongs.>>18546496>While his cabinet was a mess, there was a lack of his own personal involvement in the scandalsThis is a problem in and of itself though. If you're too off your ass to be bothered about well-publicized corruption in your cabinet in the 1800s of all times you should be the one held accountable given you're the boss. That being said his foreign polcy game is very underrated while his economic reforms did a lot to pave the way for the gay 90s. Issue is he bungled reconstruction hard due to as I said empowering corrupt officials/institutions and gave the Redeemers the narratives they needed to reclaim power.
>>18546507>CabinetUndoubtedly his greatest flaw. Grant had issue with relationships, and was undoubtedly poor at delegation + character judging>Foreign PolicyDefinitely interesting, although he was salvaged in this regard that his push for the Dominican Republic scheme failed. A quagmire it would’ve been>EconomyDefinitely helped maintain America’s industrial momentum. No surprise it was not long after him they overtook Britain, he carried Lincoln’s robust legacy well.>Bungling ReconstructionWhen Lincoln died and Johnson succeeded him, a smooth reconstruction went southwards. Grant would not have the political power to effectively reconcilliate the South + crush redeeming ideology, but he did ensure they wouldn’t be able to regain any momentum that would have caused a greater insurgency.
>>18546522>a smooth reconstruction went southwardsGrant had virtually zero opposition in congress apart from a brief spell during his tenure. His presidency was the perfect time to make reconstruction go a lot smoother than it did and correct Johnson's fuckups but he squandered it by empowering highly corrupt business leaders and government officials, giving credence to the "carpetbagger" narrative and paving the way for the redeemers.>he did ensure they wouldn’t be able to regain any momentum that would have caused a greater insurgencyThat was Hayes, Hayes was the one that essentially created the Solid South by essentially cutting the same deal with them that Putin did with Kadyrov by having former Planter class types influence foreign policy and maintain regional control of the South while never rising to power nationally with Cleveland and Wilson as exceptions until the New Deal era.
