A case can be made for any president as being a great president or a bad president.
Pat Buchannan wrote an excellent article praising Warren G. Harding as a great president.
Lincoln can be made out as our worst president because of his ignoring the constitution.
It’s all subjective.
Great thread!!
Yep…that’s true.
LBJ was very problematic and though he signed into law the VRA and CRA the civil rights movement forced his hand so he definitely didn’t do it out of the kindness of his heart. LBJ knew his folks and he knew their ideology because he shared that same ideology. It is well known that he was made in the mode of that southern racists democrat/dixiecrat line of thinking.
Another example of how well he knew his folks back then was well stated in this quote, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you”. It was relevant and true then and in some portions of this country it’s relevant and true now.
I personally think LBJ was a piece of crap politician who got lucky, but at the end of the day my parents, my grand parents(RIP), my family(including the ones that immigrated here and became citizens) along with millions of black Americans is very thankful for the VRA and CRA.