09-20-2016, 11:46 AM
(09-15-2016, 12:10 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Somehow I cannot see Kennedy/Johnson as quite the disaster that Dubya was. Dubya was a thoroughly-awful President, essentially the telescoping of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover disasters of twelve years into eight. Any decay during the Kennedy/Johnson years was of a cultural consensus (the Counterculture with the introduction of the Boom Awakening).
You weren't draft age during the Vietnam war, were you? You might look at how many Americans got killed in Vietnam versus Iraq.