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Readers Write: Comparing Biden and LBJ, leaving Afghanistan, Israel Sour and ahistoric.  Text size Copy shortlink: James Jay Carafano attacks President Joe Biden by saying he is channeling Lyndon B. Johnson ( Biden channels LBJ, and will fail as he did, Opinion Exchange, May 3). His discussion of LBJ is blatantly ahistoric. Carafano s most offensive statement is that Johnson s Great Society programs were a pseudo-socialist experiment that failed abysmally, leading to a sharp decline of race relations and the near collapse of American inner cities. Really? Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act through Congress. Before LBJ s presidency, violence and terror were used to enforce an apartheid system. Black people could not use whites-only public facilities like restaurants, hotels and swimming pools. They were systematically prevented from voting. They were frequently lynched and tortured with no recou

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