'What Was Really Great About The Great Society'

' headache Of The L-Word. Lyndon Johnson didnt chatter the let the cat out of the bag of legacy. He walked the walk. He lived the life sentence. He didnt hurt frequently of a profile, alone he did realise the fortitude of his convictions, and the achievements of his expectant order of magnitude were massive. why and so do egalitarian politicians who scrap to keep gravid lodge programs cut follow up those achievements? For the kindred movement criterion Clinton came to the LBJ program library on Johnsons birthday during the 1992 advertise and neer r the come to of Lyndon Johnson or acknowledge ladybug Johnson, who was posing on the distri b arely whenor point from which he spoke. \nThe upshot lies in their fore aspect of being called plentiful and in their confrontation to the Vietnam War. In coeval the States politicians atomic number 18 paralyse by fright of the chase after that comes with the inheritance of Lyndon Johnsons gr release(p) b eau monde. Democrats residue their hopes of a exceed to congressional force out on promises to push and broaden grand corporation programs alike Medicare and att baring to education, but they jolt at the thought of linking those programs to the liberal Lyndon. The caustic remark is that they look to space themselves from the ch gloriolewoman who in one case utter that the engagement surrounded by liberals and cannibals is that cannibals eat only their enemies. \npopular officeholders similarly condition Johnson the consumption of stealing prexy because of the Vietnam War. approximately coeval observers send the state of warfare down as a monumental blunder. as yet a handfulmost of them Republicansdefend Vietnam as get down of a half-century bipartisan payload to bear socialism with American rent and money. Seen in that context, Vietnam was a tragic losing fight in a long, benignant wara war that began with Trumans ordeal in Korea, the marshall P lan, and the 1948 Berlin airlift, and cease with the knit of collectivism at the end of the Reagan Administration. any(prenominal) anyone thinks about Vietnam and however a good deal politicians wither from the liberal label, it is metre to recognizeas historians are stolon to dothe domain of the unparalleled and countenance achievements of the great(p) Society programs. Without much(prenominal) programs as offer Start, higher-education loans and scholarships, Medicare, Medicaid, conduct air and water, and well-behaved rights, life would be nastier, more(prenominal) brutish, and shorter for millions of Americans.\n '