There Were No Political Ideas. It Was

The World Spends Two Trillion Dollars A Year On Military, And Of That Two Trillion The United States Spends One Trillion. We Have A Bigger Military Than The Rest Of The World Put Together. We Have 150 Foreign Military Bases.

I Suffer From A Genetic Flaw, Which Is That My Mother Was A Hopeless Pollyanna.

Now In My View, If You Were To Line Up The Presidents In The Order Of Who Made The Greatest Accomplishments, You'd Put Lyndon Johnson In That Arena With Both Roosevelts Probably, And [abraham] Lincoln And So On. But The Idea That Lyndon Johnson Was Operating As A Free Agent And Coming Up With These Ideas On His Own Is Nonsense.

I Was Arrested In 1965 For Opposing The War In Vietnam. There Were 39 Of Us Arrested That Day. But Thousands Opposed Us. And The Majority Of The People In The Country Supported The War Then.

I Thought In 1965 That My Job Was To Convince Most Americans To Be Against The War. So I Spent Summers Knocking On Doors, Handing Out Literature, Trying To Talk To People Who Didn't Agree With Me, Trying To Get Them To See The War Was Wrong. And By 1968 A Majority Of Americans Did Oppose The War.