Something else about LBJ: When he finally realized he had been played by the same MI complex, thousands of our soldiers had been killed and we were in deep. He did not know that Kennedy had given the order to pull out. They lied to him. That is one of the main reasons he made the decision not to run for reelection - not the fear of running against RFK often given as the reason why he did not run. After he left office he went back to his ranch in Texas and basically went off grid and off his nut. Grew his hair long in a Howard Hughes kind of way and ran his ranch like he was still in the oval office. I heard he wanted daily briefings on how many eggs the chickens laid and other such operations. His last years were not good ones.

I think one of the most poignant photos of him I ever saw was one taken towards the end of his presidency where he was sitting in a chair slumped forward with his face in his hands. For a man that stood tall and was a proud Texan, always thinking he was in the driver's seat and in control of things, this photo was so out of character. IMO, the weight of the cost of that war drove him insane.