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When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.

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Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.

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For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.

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Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972.

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There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.

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What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

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Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of the voting population that was not anticommunist in 1961 was miniscule.

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Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

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Here's an irony of the history of conservatism's relationship with business and business's relationship with conservatism: 'Wall Street' used to be the right-wing industrialists of the forties and fifties' greatest term of derision. (Wall Street was the place that humiliated them by forcing them, hat in hand, to beg for capital).

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Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).

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