No, you don’t. Not even close.
He was quick to take the oath of office aboard Air Force One, barely two hours after JFK’s death, to reassure the country about the continuing stability of the government
I certainly begin to understand my (born in 1909) father’s complete bewilderment at all the social changes of the 1960s and 1970s and the collapse of all the old certainties.
I do want to reiterate that I was not asking about the immediate aftermath; I was asking about from Tuesday morning on, going forward.
Actually no. I was young (16) but I knew that Johnson was 10 times the politician JFK was and would have a far better chance as President of getting civil rights legislation past the Southern diehards in the Senate. And that’s just how it turned out.
For me it was the 68-69 period. Losing MLK and RFK, Going from Woodstock to Altamont, Nixon, Democratic National Convention riots. Cumulative, but the same “dark and unknown period ahead”
But rationality and reason, even haphazardly applied, lead to the inescapable conclusion that the narrative of Hillary-Clinton-as-Boogieman has always been an urban legend. To see it accepted by a slice of the electorate large enough to take even a single electoral vote, let alone the majority, is as shocking as finding out that more than half of the populace believes the moon landings were faked.