Calling it now

Excellent point! I think you've zeroed in on one the reasons the production suffered. As I said in another thread: I thought the film was entertaining, and good...But not great.



"Stick with me, baby, and you'll be fartin' thru silk."

Yes they conveniently glossed of his shady side to once again try to rewrite history. Most of his accomplishments were started by JFK and he will always have the blood of Vietnam on his hands

The previous two posters have inadvertently revealed their misunderstanding of the value of presenting history and its impactful events. You have to look at the big picture when it comes to history because its major events are always surrounded in the minutia of details (substantiated or not). The question of Johnson’s possible involvement in other events is a lengthy discourse in and of itself. The film, however, is a powerful testament to the pitfalls and complexities of the path that led to arguably the most important string of legislative successes that this country has ever had. From the age of 11 thru 21, I, as an African American male, lived thru the events of the film. From a 7th grader on November 22nd, 1963, I progressed to a college graduate in political science in 1973. Yes, the legislative goals were not Johnson’s ideas; no one ever disputed that. But once born, they were his to nurture to fruition. For whatever reason God intended, John Kennedy was gone. Johnson was perhaps the only politician with enough savvy to have pulled off the events. Through just 2 degrees of separation, I learned that LBJ was just as profane and irreverent as the movie portrayed, but the man knew how kick political a$$ and get a job done. Hating Johnson the man is your right, but don’t lose sight of what he accomplished.