Anaxagoras
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Suppose that LBJ decided to deescalate the Vietnam War until all American troops were gradually withdrawn by the end of 1966. How would this affect the Great Society and space program?
IIRC, his bad health was mostly due to him smoking himself to death in depression over failing to win another term.LBJ was in bad health by 1970. Not sure how much was due to Vietnam-related stress and how much was inevitable. But I don't think he'd go for the second term. But if he's still popular in 1968, I think President Humphrey is a valid idea.
IIRC, his bad health was mostly due to him smoking himself to death in depression over failing to win another term.
This may be nit-picking, but I remember reading an article in Time magazine in 1972 or thereabouts, that LBJ had recently taken up smoking again [the article said he had quit some 15 years earlier] His doctor told him it would kill him, but he figured his heart was going to give out anyway, and he was going to enjoy his time remaining. So if this story was accurate, then he didn't smoke while he was POTUS. [unless he snuck a few, when nobody was looking]