Pierre Asselin
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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He's a fascinating historical character.
And it's interesting.
A very tragic one, too.
I mean, you mentioned it, right?
I think people fail to recognize his background when they look at Johnson.
I mean, you know, there's so much focus on his presidency in the Vietnam War that I think sometimes we discount Johnson.
his formative experiences, which turned out to have a huge impact on the way he approached Vietnam and other issues.
So yeah, Johnson is from Central Texas.
Father was a failed politician, failed legislator, failed business person.
And I think that these failures end up conditioning Johnson from the time he's very young.
I mean, this is an individual who ends up growing in extreme poverty,
whose family sometimes cannot even afford groceries, Johnson, for the rest of his life, will kind of be haunted by this upbringing.
I mean, while some people would be kind of proud of having risen from, I guess, the ashes of poverty, Johnson would always kind of carry that as a source of humiliation and would always be kind of sensitive to these issues.
But yeah, that poverty that surrounds him ends up really kind of shaping his views as he enters politics.
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Yeah, absolutely.
And he's the youngest person to ever assume that position at that point.
But yeah, I mean, given his humble origins, it's really remarkable the extent to which Johnson comes to assert himself at first in the legislature, eventually in the Senate, and really earn people's respect.
in those positions.
So yeah, and this treatment you mentioned, I mean, Johnson was, it becomes, for a period at least, a significant asset of his.
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