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“Gentlemen, I want you to know I’m not going to let Vietnam go the way China did. I’m personally committed. I’m not going to take one soldier out of there ’til they know we mean business in Asia…You just get me elected, and I’ll give you your damned war.” (Source: Oliver Stone’s “JFK”).

While it is not known that these words were actually (ever) used or that the conversation ever occurred however, LBJ’s acrid temperament was well know from as far back as his Texas origins along with his insatiable appetite for breaking norms, to the extreme in some cases, to affect his will.  Read more...