Six Episodes? Are You Kidding Me?
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“This is an *excellent* podcast, but left me very frustrated. It offers a sensitively curated, extremely thoughtful, and nearly entirely primary source-based account of LBJ's Vietnam policy. The use of audio recordings--especially private phone calls between the President and his staff, journalists, and government officials--is electrifying and places it far above other history podcasts.
However, it doesn't seem to have any sense of its audience. It assumes extensive prior knowledge of US foreign policy and social history, and will leave many listeners to fend for themselves as they hit pause and venture down any number of Wikipedia rabbit holes. On the other hand, if you do have the prior knowledge you're left wondering why on earth there are so few episodes. Given the epic scale of the topic and the depth of the source material (there are surely thousands of hours of these recordings in the LBJ Presidential Library), how is this not the twenty-episode-soup-to-nuts-LBJ/Vietnam-wonkfest it so clearly should be?
I get that resources are limited. And that it's churlish to level this sort of criticism at a podcast that is clearly trying very hard and mostly succeeding. But it's difficult to listen to this and not come away feeling that it is, at bottom, a huge missed opportunity.”Read full review »
Max from New Haven via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/06/17
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“Picked this up as it was recommended on another podcast (Slate’s The Gabfest) during their chatter section. I’ve always been intrigued by LBJ mainly because he audio recorded everything and you get to hear his thoughts in his own words. He’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but he could get things...”Read full review »
That One Lady E via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/26/20
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“This is an informative and well-produced podcast. Glad I stumbled across it!”
Mooooooooorgan via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/13/17
“I’m more appreciative ofLBJ - and more terrified of our current predicament.”
JayMontecristo via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/26/17
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