LBJ looking back source: http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/museum.hom/museum_exhibit_pages/museum_exhibits/timeline/timpg8e.asp#anchor452413

Dosteovsky's Classic, "The Grand Inquisitor,"

My heart was with the students, although they would never know that, and I don't suppose they would ever believe it. I'd hear those chants—"Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?"—and I knew there was a long gulf between them and me which neither one of us could do much about. I was doing what I thought was right, right for them, and right for their country and their future and their children. But they couldn't see that.

What we were doing was based on decisions that were made and actions that were taken before some of them were even born, and that's a hard thing to understand. I didn't blame them. They didn't want to get killed in a war, and that's easy to understand. It would be wonderful if there were a way each generation could start off fresh, just wipe the slate clean all around the world and say, "O.K., the new world begins today." But nobody's ever found a way to do that. There's a continuity in history that's one of our greatest strengths, but maybe it's one of our weaknesses, too. If a young man says, "You're sending me to Vietnam because of the SEATO treaty, but I wasn't around when you passed the SEATO treaty, and I don't believe in it and I don't think it's right to put my life on the line for decisions that were made by men when I was in my cradle"—well, there's something there to listen to.

But it's possible for us to say to young men and women: You're free, you can vote, you can deny the state the right to enter your house, you can speak your mind without fear of prison—and we can say all these things to them because of decisions made and actions taken before any of us were born, before our parents and grandparents were born.

Lyndon Johnson, in retirement