efied that stereotype by showing that with willpower, we can do it. President Johnson once said, "your generation has been appointed by history to deal with those problems and to lead America" (Holland 40). And so we are.Yes, Johnson did let Vietnam fall to the Communists, but what about Cuba? It fell to Communism in the 1950s when dictator Fidel Castro took power. Many people asked why we were fighting Communism an ocean away when it was only ninety miles from Key West (Annals of America 553). To this day, Cuba remains Communist and many Cubans have fled to America for asylum. What will happen if there are too many Cubans in Florida? Will one of them become dictator of America? It is better to pretend they never will, but it is reality to contemplate the idea.We practice restricted foreign aid nowadays, to keep ourselves out of trouble. Johnson thought being in South Vietnam would bring world peace because countries would look to us for protection (Frazier 284). That's not quite true, but we don't want to offer too much help, in case we should be pulled into another war like Vietnam. Since we can learn from mistakes, we obviously learned from Johnson's errors that maybe too much help could be bad.The Great Society was the jewel of his era, the Vietnam War, the shattering of his image. The Vietnam War took a great bite out of the Great Society and left it a paraplegic, but triumphing spirit. "Johnson will probably be remembered as a president who faithfully reflected the country's greatness and limitations," concluded Professor Robert Dallek (qtd. in Dallek 628). From the turbulence of the 1960s, we have moved on, through high and low, sweet and sour, and have yet to give up. Said LBJ, thoughtfully, "We move step-by-step- often painfully-along the path toward American freedom" (Schuman 73)....
