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Jun 16, 2017akirakato rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Direced by Jay Roach and adapted by Robert Schenkkan from his play with the same title, this is a 2016 American HBO docudrama, based on the 1st-year events of the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. I was amazed by the overwhelming LBJ victory in the 1964 election. The following year, President Johnson worked with Dr. King and the civil rights movement to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965. LBJ also mobilized Congress to enact "Great Society" legislation, creating Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, and sweeping reform in education, jobs, immigration, the environment and the arts. By Spring 1968, nearly 25,000 soldiers had been killed in Vietnam. Support for the war had eroded and protests mounted. Facing a divided electrorate and poor health, LBJ announced in March 1968 he would not run for re-election. Martin Luther King was assassinated in April 1968. LBJ died of a heart attack at his ranch in 1973 at age 64. So, everybody should be able to understand, Vietnam War really ruined his popularity.