Meanwhile, conservative Democrats and Republicans were getting fed up with the war for a very different reason: they were frustrated that Lyndon Johnson, who increasingly seemed unable to please anyone, chose to fight a “limited war” instead of bombing North Vietnam “into the Stone Age,” as the retired Air Force general Curtis LeMay, a future vice presidential candidate on a ticket with George Wallace, had suggested in 1965. Some even called for invading North Vietnam or at least entering Laos and Cambodia to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, Johnson’s friend and
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