>Johnson ?
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>That's a great question.
>Johnson and Ike accomplished more between them than all the other postwar presidents combined.
>The Vietnam blunder sullied his legacy, but he certainly knew how to lead.
>His ability to get people to do his bidding was legendary.
>Just recently I came across a story about how he persuaded supreme court justice Tom Clark to step down so that JBJ could appoint Thurgood Marshall- the first black justice.
>That was good old fashioned politicking at its best.
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>I think that Nick was referring to Gary Johnson - the libertarian candidate for president this year....

Wrong ! I was actually referring LBJ . A man who seemed to know where the levers where and how hard to pull them.

My worry with Johnson the libertarian is he might split the intelligent vote letting in the barbarians.