re: #237 talon_262

That may be so, but I’d have to say that LBJ took the biggest political risk. Nixon was pretty much a liberal Republican, while LBJ was a staunch Southern Democrat, in a time when the Dixiecrats still had the power in the Democratic Party. LBJ was able to sideline or co-opt those Dixiecrats until he had the numbers for passage; I don’t think Nixon would have been able to do the same.

They were adversaries, no doubt.

Equally despicable and brilliant.