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The Legacy of LBJ

Calvin Trillin

February 19, 2014

Some say that the Vietnam War has obscured Johnson's extraordinary domestic accomplishments. —News reports

Well, yes, there was that awful war, That he pushed hell for leather. But now, they say, we miss his skill In knocking heads together.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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