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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (9338)	11/8/2001 9:57:24 AM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

Ray, I actually have a soft spot for Johnson. A really big hearted man, though also a politician to the core. He certainly made mistakes in Viet Nam, but he was getting hit on all sides there. Bad advice from inside the administration, political attacks from left and right outside. In contrast to, say, Kissinger or Nixon, it's clear that Viet Nam tore Johnson apart inside too. He only lived for 4 years after leaving office, as I recall mostly in seclusion. Meanwhile, Kissinger, who worked so hard to sabotage the 1968 Paris peace talks so that more or less same deal could be made 4 years and who knows how much death and destruction later, bloviates on to this day. Edit: This is why I'm so disappointed that some on this thread would say that we ought to be obliging to the recent executive order sealing the papers of the Reagan Administration. That is another story, and a total crock too. There's been endless instant "history" (aka political propaganda) glorifying Reagan. Personally, on historical matters I take my cue from the Civil War, where the "Birth of a Nation" style whitewash of the post reconstruction South is still way too widely accepted.