McAPUSH: Laura Cicone - The President Calling

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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Laura Cicone - The President Calling

I listened to a podcast of President Lyndon Johnson because I didn't know too much about him. He became President of the USA in 1963 after the JFK assassination. The speech I listened to was his speech to Congress directly after the assassination. He spoke mostly of equal civil rights, loyalty to the USA's allies, and the continuation of JFK's works. He also calls the USA a "peacemaker", yet later on he focused on the containment of Communism in Vietnam. The Vietnam War was ridiculously violent and bloody, so who was he to call himself and his nation the "peacemaker"?