Leadership Ability Of Robert Kennedy And Lyndon Johnson

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position to fill; the young JFK seemed to have done no wrong, and the nation was still in shock from his untimely death. Johnson, like any good leader, used this opportunity to introduce social legislation in “the memory of Kennedy”, namely the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which Kennedy had not been able to get passed. This was one instance in which LBJ was able to accurately read the emotions of the people, and was able to use this trait to his advantage. However, many of Johnson’s popular social programs were undermined by the growing conflict in Vietnam. Johnson’s handling of the Vietnam War not only damaged his social agenda, but his credibility as well. The number of American troops that LBJ said would be needed to win the war seemed to grow every day, the reports that were given from the front line were sometimes entirely false and more often than not, more than a little misleading. Eventually, almost nothing Johnson said, about Vietnam or anything else, had the ring ...

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