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Watched the HBO film All the Way today, and... wow, can't believe I never heard of this guy. And I'm not the only one who thinks his arrest in 1964 had potentially major consequences:
Wikipedia said:
Johnson's White House Press Secretary George Reedy told an interviewer: "A great deal of the president's difficulties can be traced to the fact that Walter had to leave.... All of history might have been different if it hadn't been for that episode." Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark said that Jenkins' resignation "deprived the president of the single most effective and trusted aide that he had. The results would be enormous when the president came into his hard times. Walter's counsel on Vietnam might have been extremely helpful."
So what do you guys think? What if the man LBJ (may) have thought of as a son hadn't seen his career cut short at a single YMCA bust? Would Johnson's presidency have been affected? How would history be different?
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