... nothing but ruin him. Not only did it ruin his reputation, but it left the people "paying the high price" (pg. 99) which was losing faith in the federal government, but not just in the government but in the president as well. It was then that the Rooseveltian patrimony came to an end. When Harry S. Truman was in office ... , and Johnson tried to disturb it by dispatching CIA agents, in violation of U.S. law, to spy on peace advocates (pg. 359). The war with Vietnam consumed a large portion of the federal budget. $295 billion was spent in 1964 and $354 billion was spent in 1967. 16,000 tr...

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