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better than of course I i can say that about the
John Kennedy be whose presence is terribly overrated for a lot of reasons
I'll give you some more reasons that
some other words he brought into our national vocabulary natan
and nation-building counterinsurgency green berets fortified am a strategic
hamlets all these words in vietnam that frankly lead to of a lot of trouble
and I don't believe for a second that he would have backed out a vietnam I think
he was committed to that mistake as much as anybody
my point about Johnson was this that have all the president's it's Amy
Johnson had the closest them with the most
out my remarks stem from a conversation I had with the
claude pepper the congressmen from Florida I so that the senior citizen man
I who who are I was sitting next to me on the diet
a.m. I he had it seemed to me the most sense for poor people
and for the downtrodden in the Johnson I don't know whether it was said I will
wait
Kairos Cal book is marvelous by the way it makes every others biography
a joke arrow is not there yet is only up to the fifties or forties with Anna
Johnson is not in the senate yet even
is that two more violent I'm but I I do think he had a real touch lyndon johnson
in terms of a basic sort of understanding of what it felt to be poor
and what what black people and poor white people
really undersell 10 Hispanics I do believe that and that's what I was
talking about and there's no way I'm gonna change that
on on the foreign policy stuff he was terrible