He deserves all the crap he gets for Vietnam but LBJ is underrated. And I hate to say it as I gaze at my vintage Kennedy for President poster and coming from a family that loved JFK since he was the first Irish-American and Catholic President but JFK is overrated though in some senses, I believe underappreciated too. The handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis was his finest hour and proved beyond a doubt that the voters were right in 1960.