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The Coronavirus Isn’t Trump’s Katrina. It’s His Vietnam.
An unfit president will cost American lives.
Wartime president?
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Mistakes were made. Lies were told. The body count kept rising.
President Lyndon Johnson knew the war in Vietnam was a fiasco. But he believed American prestige was on the line. And he didn’t want to be the first president to lose a war. “I know we oughtn’t to be there,” he told Senator Eugene McCarthy in a February 1966 phone call. “But I can’t get out.”