What was Lyndon Johnson remebered for?

Answer 1

In a nutshell, he's remembered for being the most liberal president in U.S. history, even moreso than Franklin D. Roosevelt.

MOSTLY, he's famous for preventing our armed forces from actually fighting to win the war in Vietnam, while letting tens of thousands of them be killed each year by not pulling out either.

But more specifically, he's remembered for Civil Rights legislation, Gun Control legislation (GCA68), and MOSTLY for escalating the Vietnam War from 16,000 to 550,000 troops, then forbidding air strikes on most of the important military targets in North Vietnam.

He PERSONALLY directed all bombing missions from The Oval Office, and wanted to convince the North Vietnamese to call a truce, rather than to defeat them.

For that reason, he created a list of "No Bombing" targets, with standing orders to keep bombers at least 10 miles from them. He put all targets of any significance off limits to our bombers, while hitting trivial targets (and getting pilots killed) just to prove that we could have taken out airfields if we had wanted to.

NOT fighting the Vietnam war, is what he's most remembered for by all Vietnam Vets.