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It started out as advisors and morphed into troops, think Dr. Nash is correct. But the '64 election message from LBJ was, "Don't vote for that right-wing lunatic Goldwater. He'll get us into WW3." The mushroom cloud ad only ran once, but it was effective.

I would argue that our country has never recovered from the Lincoln assassination, and to a lesser extent, Kennedy. The left surged due to LBJ's lies - calling everything into question. Authority. Religion. Government. Patriotism. Until relatively recently, the vast majority of tenured professors in universities were baptized in the anti-war movement. Colleges of Liberal Arts are essentially worthless today, as a result. There might be a handful of exceptions, but you don't need two hands.

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