What effect did the Vietnam War have on the Great Society?

It made President Johnson even more popular.

Americans and Congress focused less on the Great Society and more on the war.

It ensured President Johnson's re-election.

Americans' opposition to the war allowed them to focus more on the Great Society.

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Tristian Mueller

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5 September, 11:47

What effect did the Vietnam War have on the Great Society?

It made President Johnson even more popular.

Americans and Congress focused less on the Great Society and more on the war.

It ensured President Johnson's re-election.

Americans' opposition to the war allowed them to focus more on the Great Society.

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Kayden Ponce · Answer 1

President Lyndon Johnson surely felt a bitter sense of recognition when he opened The Washington Post on Aug. 1, 1967. There, on Page A12, appeared a political cartoon - the latest by the brilliant cartoonist Herbert Block, better known as Herblock. The sketch showed a beleaguered Johnson flanked by two female suitors. To his right stood a voluptuous seductress bedecked with jewels and a mink stole bearing the words "Vietnam War." To his left was a scrawny, disheveled waif labeled "U. S. Urban Needs." The Johnson figure reassured them, "There's money enough to support both of you," but readers could hardly fail to grasp the president's hesitation. The cartoon left no doubt that the flow of resources toward Vietnam might starve Johnson's domestic agenda.