Diary from a young boy (Great Society)

Dear Dairy, 

I am a younger boy whose wanting to write to you, because I know you will listen to everything that has been going on in my life. With the assassination of the young President Kennedy in 1963, a great veteran of Capitol Hill politics who had  been Kennedy's Vice President now assumed the Presidency.  I recall from my father telling me that Lyndon Johnson's political goals were  similar to Kennedy's:  a Liberal Democrat who emphasized the importance of American civil rights, he also understood that Communism was still the greatest threat to America.  However, his political style was drastically different.  Johnson pursued American politics not along the lines of great idealistic challenges to equally idealistic Americans, as Kennedy had, but more in terms of behind-the-scenes maneuverings of the Washington congressional and executive bureaucratic machinery. And therefore as president he pushed forward his political program of liberal domestic reform and anti-Communist engagement in the larger world through this Washington political machine – both civil and military – expanding it to rather colossal  proportions in the process.  Under Johnson, Washington DC transformed itself from a rather relaxed, low-scale southern city into a great imperial metropolis. I guess you could say that once my father had began to elaborate into such great depth about everything that has been happening, you could say that as a young school boy I am just simply confused. 

Love always,

A young boy