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摘要

While some men were made by the presidency, "other men have been broken by it," Newsweek wrote of Lyndon B. Johnson, the "president in trouble." He was the first president "beset simultaneously with a major war abroad and a major rebellion at home." His personality became an issue as well, resulting in "almost as much criticism and contention as the war in Vietnam and the tumult in the ghettos" and the "rising tide of anger, frustration and bitterness that is cresting around the White House."