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Exactly what popped into my head too. They also had questions that were ambiguous. "What's the big staircase in Rome?" doesn't really have a single correct answer much like many of the literacy tests in the Jim Crow south.
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It also isn't true. LBJs approval rating absolutely tanked because of the Vietnam war.
Johnson's approval ratings had dropped from 70 percent in mid-1965 to below 40 percent by 1967
https://millercenter.org/president/lbjohnson/foreign-affairs
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I haven't thought about The Celery Stalks at Midnight in forever. Thanks for that blast from the past!
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Psypost is like the the Daily Mail of science journalism. Kind of just dismiss everything I see from them at this point. Thank you for the rebuttal.