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Ep. 853: Mark Perry Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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The Rise and Fall of Lyndon Johnson

Kennedy's assassination was one of those moments in American history that was pivot. Lyndon Johnson would come up, stand behind the lecturers and say I've decided today to send 17,000 more troops to fight in Vietnam. By 1969, 1968, you had 550,000 American troops in Vietnam and a half a million people on the streets of America. This is one of these escalatory ladders, as they call them, that by 1969 it was clear the war was tearing this country apart.

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