On Lyndon Baines Johnson

He was a war-monger (attacking a country that had done literally nothing to us - the first Gulf of Tonkin incident having been precipitated by American provocation - and hence being responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands), a racist who routinely used the n-word, opposed civil rights for decades (it was Eisenhower who put forth the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and it was Eisenhower who wanted a much stronger bill - only to be stymied by Johnson in the Senate) and only became in favor of them once he decided to run for President, and a spendaholic whose profligate spending (which, in fairness, Nixon continued) in the '60s more than likely paved the way for the inflationary craziness of the 1970s. To say that the fellow was a below average President is as about complimentary as I can get and if it wasn't for Nixon and Bush 2, I just might have had to call him the worst of my lifetime.