The Presidency: No Cure in Consensus

Lieut. Colonel Seldon Edner.

First Lieuts. George Smith and Leland Williams.

First Lieut. Remer Harding and Staff Sergeant William Goodwin.

Lieut. Colonels Alfred Medendorp and Frank Lynn.

Major Rudolf Anderson.

SP4 James Davis.

Lyndon Johnson's extraordinary honor roll, from the first American killed fighting Communism in Greece in 1949 to the first American to die in South Viet Nam in 1961, was a fitting reminder of the role in which the U.S., like it or not, has been cast since the end of World War II.*It was particularly apt at a time when the nation was...

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