2007-05-09 18:06:01 · 6 answers · asked by ss501luveralot 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Johnson legacy was a nation hopelessly divided due to his expansion of the war in Vietnam that nearly destroyed our country from internal strife
and the current welfare state which destroyed Americas black families
his legacy is long and filled with accomplishments, all bad
2007-05-10 02:27:24 · answer #1 · answered by rbenne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
#1. Vietnam war. We had few troops there until his faked Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which he used to justify sending hundreds of thousands of troops to Vietnam.
#2. The best "cut and run" ever done. After having gotten the USA heavily involved in the Vietnam War, he did the ultimate cut and run when he decided to not run for a second term in 1968, leaving the entire Vietnam mess to the next president.
#3. Took us off the silver standard. Now our money is worthless and has no backing. We can print as much as we want and the value keeps going down, a hidden tax that most are not aware of.
#4. Made deficit spending in Washington DC the standard practice. Up to his time, we only had deficit budgets during war (and the Great Depression.) This goes hand in hand with the silver standard issue. We no longer had to pay the debt with silver, we could just knock off more worthless money.
#4. Made us realize even Presidents can be gross slobs as he showed us his gallbladder scar at a photo shoot.
2007-05-10 14:29:59 · answer #2 · answered by forgivebutdonotforget911 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a guy who came of age during the Vietnam War, I suppose I have a strong, and unchangeable, opinion on this question. I believe LBJ will be remembered---and villified---as the man who escalated the war in Vietnam and caused the unnecessary death of thousands of Americans and Asians. Of course, he was not the only American President who sent troops to Vietnam, but he did escalate the war the most. (The use of that word 'escalation', in that era, accounts for the avoidance of that term during the current war escalation).
We Buddhists believe that people who kill, or who cause people to be killed, accrue bad karma (action), which has to be worked off in the next life. If that is true, LBJ will have a LOT of bad karma to work off. It isn't impossible, though, for anyone.
LBJ's actions in Southeast Asia greatly overshadow his domestic successes, including the voting rights act of 1965.
I can still hear him saying on tv, "I come to you tonight with a heavy heart."
2007-05-10 11:41:20 · answer #3 · answered by pasdeclef 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did a report on Lyndon B. Johnson!
In fifth grade. Sorry I couldn't help u.... :(
2007-05-09 19:02:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Voting Rights Act of 1964 was his greatest legacy.
His Great Society welfar program was his greatest domestic failure, but Vietnam overshadowed it.
2007-05-09 18:53:13 · answer #5 · answered by Doc Hudson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Affirmative Action plans to increase diversity
2007-05-10 12:22:49 · answer #6 · answered by v. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋