Democratic (socialist/fascist) President Lyndon Johnson in a private meeting with Walter Lippmann, “the founder of modern journalism,” confides:

       I’m not just going to pull up my pants and run out on Vietnam.  Don’t you know the church is on fire over there, and we’ve got to find a way to run out? … You say to negotiate, bt there’s nobody left to negotiate with.  So the only thing there is to do is to hang on.  And that’s what I am going to do.

       [added 6/19/2025]