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Congress
Title: Congress
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 551 | Pages: 2.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Congress
"This is a time of testing for our nation. The question is whether we have the staying power to fight a very costly war, when the objective is limited and the danger to us is seemingly remote."
Lyndon Johnson, 1967 State of the Union Address
When Lyndon Johnson and his holdover New Frontiersmen adopted tactics of attrition in Vietnam, they warped the debate over America's proper role in that country. They denied advocates of a sounder …showed first 75 words of 551 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 551 total…judge Saigon's legitimacy by its ability to resist Northern aggression while maintaining the niceties of U.S.-style democracy, doves held America's ally to rather a high standard. Given that most Americans supported the war effort and continued to do so even into the Nixon years, the doves' ultimate triumph rests in no small part on the errors of their opponents. Lyndon Johnson's failure was one of imagination; Richard Nixon's was one of political misjudgment.
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