It is a wise thing to note the presidents, just as kings, emperors, prime ministers, sultans and warlords, are humans. Lyndon B. Johnson was susceptible to fault as any other human being who’s ever risen to power. LBJ’s desire to be great was bolstered and hardened by the tragic circumstances in which he was brought into office. The fires in which his mettle was tested was a country in dire need of civil reform and a country terrified by the looming, or at least intimidating specter of global communism. LBJ’s greatest pride and his greatest fault could be summed up by his fierce and passionate ambitions in a country that desperately needed it and a globe that was too fragile to allow it.
To be a president that could be even considered for the greatest of the twentieth century is a great honor, but it also requires an assessment of what such a leader could have done to earn such a consideration. Lyndon B. Johnson tackled his responsibilities with a ferociousness rarely seen in politicians, urging haste and …show more content…
These are the qualities of a man who is the greatest president of the twentieth century, and yet in a less fragile global climate, these qualities may have been welcomed outside of America as well.
“Like Harry Truman 18 years earlier, Lyndon Johnson assumed the presidency with little, if any, firsthand experience in making the momentous decisions of foreign affairs that would so decisively shape the course of his own administration.” (Chafe, P.262) Lyndon B. Johnson was an American in both nationality and spirit, a rebellious heart steeled by the potential for his situation to be better than it once was. This has always been a spirit that has flourished in America, but as the world became more connected, the role of president had begun to change too, and in quietly drastic
To be a president that could be even considered for the greatest of the twentieth century is a great honor, but it also requires an assessment of what such a leader could have done to earn such a consideration. Lyndon B. Johnson tackled his responsibilities with a ferociousness rarely seen in politicians, urging haste and …show more content…
These are the qualities of a man who is the greatest president of the twentieth century, and yet in a less fragile global climate, these qualities may have been welcomed outside of America as well.
“Like Harry Truman 18 years earlier, Lyndon Johnson assumed the presidency with little, if any, firsthand experience in making the momentous decisions of foreign affairs that would so decisively shape the course of his own administration.” (Chafe, P.262) Lyndon B. Johnson was an American in both nationality and spirit, a rebellious heart steeled by the potential for his situation to be better than it once was. This has always been a spirit that has flourished in America, but as the world became more connected, the role of president had begun to change too, and in quietly drastic