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I was at the LBJ library today, and before this I was never really aware of how cognizant LBJ was in the moment that Vietnam was killing domestic agenda, even during the Golf Tonkin Resolution period when most of Congress was behind him. It made me wonder, without Vietnam, what does a 66-68(68-LBJ death) domestic agenda look like?

[To expand on the point, even in 66 they have recorded phone calls of LBJ telling cabinet members that Vietnam was going to end the Great Society, but there was no reasonable way for him to get out without it killing his Presidency. They have some interesting contrasts from Kearns-Goodwin and Dalleck noting how caught in the moment everyone was.]
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