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Thread #74439   Message #1307189
Posted By: Amos
25-Oct-04 - 10:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'Choking on Progressives for Kerry'
Subject: RE: BS: 'Choking on Progressives for Kerry'
Dear God, OG, are you asking for a fight about the morals of Lyndon Baines Johnson? The man who had more peckers in his pocket than any politician since All the King's Men?.

Not from me.

But Richard M. Nixon was as foul a fellow as you are ever likely to meet and he prosecuted the war and exacerbated it until public pressure forced him to rethink his position.

One of the major forces behind that decision was the Washington Mall camp-in by the Vietnam Veterans against the War, led and spoken for by a decorated vet named KErry.

Lyndon Johnson, my tush.

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