Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Student's Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 8. April 30 1968
he tried
he tried
As a "might have been", Lyndon Johnson, the man from Texas, may go down in history. He will be remembered because he tried, and failed, to better his country, but not at the expense of South-East Asia. Perhaps it is better to be remembered as an honest man who has tried, rather than as a dubious intellectual justifying his moral cowardice on the grounds of self-interest?