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Bruce Johnson

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    • 19 Feb 09
    • 10:32 am

    Dave -- you make a valid point in that the chaos and various forms of insurrection in the late '60s and early '70s had some impact on the ability of the government to conduct the war in Indochina and, probably less so, on repression in this country. There is a story that when Curtis Lemay proposed use of nuclear weapons in Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson asked 'and where will you be when people break into the White House to lynch me?' Certainly some leaders, Johnson amongst them, included the 'loss of a generation' in their calculations of the cost of war. For …

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