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Author of the new book PRESIDENTS OF WAR (Crown). Nine books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. Contributor PBS @NewsHour. Williams College. Born Chicago.

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    Michael Beschloss‏Verified account @BeschlossDC 5 Jan 2017

    LBJ appealed for Great Society programs in State of the Union today 1965:pic.twitter.com/97ArqOjoKa

    12:10 PM - 5 Jan 2017
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    • Chimène Thomas Jerome Baker Steven B. Joe Bishoff 🌊🌊🌊🌊 北大西洋条約さくら CJ LBJ Library Lyndon B. Johnson A Time for Greatness
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      2. ResistTrump‏ @SphallSteve1245 5 Jan 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        The good old days when the future of America looked bright. LBJ would weap if he was alive today.

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      3. gamernorcal‏ @gamernorcal 5 Jan 2017
        Replying to @SphallSteve1245 @BeschlossDC

        What are you talking about? LBJ was scum.

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      4. ResistTrump‏ @SphallSteve1245 5 Jan 2017
        Replying to @gamernorcal

        On Vietnam, yes. On Civil Rights and concern for the poor? No.

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      5. gamernorcal‏ @gamernorcal 5 Jan 2017
        Replying to @SphallSteve1245

        LBJ was a super racist. Props on passing civil rights, but he did it more to preserve his own legacy than caring for othrs

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      1. Baloney Cafe‏ @PaltryAndFowl 5 Jan 2017
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        Awesomely heroric undertaking. We need to channel funding and fine-tune incentives.

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      1. Bones‏ @hughm88 5 Jan 2017
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        Our longest war after the other one he escalated

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      1. Franklin Oliver‏ @FOLIVER4U 5 Jan 2017
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        will we now go backwards?!? #america2017

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      1. rrlse‏ @priusport 5 Jan 2017
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        and trillions for Vietnam.... and Iraq...and Afghanistan...

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      1. George Rick‏ @GeorgeRick1 5 Jan 2017
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        Well THAT was something completely different from what we have now!

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      2. Bijan C. Bayne‏ @bijancbayne 5 Jan 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        .@BeschlossDC @Hogan_Writes Escalation in S.E. Asia hurt these.

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      3. Monica Hogan‏ @Hogan_Writes 5 Jan 2017
        Replying to @bijancbayne @BeschlossDC

        So much turmoil in the decade, so many ups and downs

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      1. Pete Smillie‏ @mequantum 5 Jan 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        As Trump and his incompetent #Republican appointees plan to destroy everything that makes us great and good.

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      1. .‏ @Benito_Cereno0 5 Jan 2017
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        $22Trillion stolen from producers and given to moochers, and what a great impact it has had on society.

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      1. BOKE [name/brand]‏ @artistofideas 5 Jan 2017
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        {}@BeschlossDC 😐 Hard to have a "great society" when you're flushing all your money down the Vietnam hole etchttps://twitter.com/artistofideas/status/788117339615039488 …

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      1. Steve‏ @Stevepre3 5 Jan 2017
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        what happened? #America 🇺🇸

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      1. IPuttheHipinHippocampus‏ @InncentBystndr 5 Jan 2017
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        Hard to be all guns overseas without being butter at home. Especially with the Soviet Union pointing out stark inequalities...

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      1. Brenda Teese‏ @brenda11831 5 Jan 2017
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        and then came the war

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      1. Jay Oliver Sax‏ @4POUNDTONGUE 5 Jan 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        If you don’t know who you are: you cannot make a mistake. http://ln.is/blogspot.com/FpXQj …

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