The most famous line, of course, from President Lyndon Johnson’s State of the Union Address 50 years ago today was:

There is much debate and discussion today about the success – or lack thereof – in that war.  None, however, would say that it has been won or that the enemy is even on the run.  One wonders if LBJ and his supporters expected victory by now and that the country would have moved on to other things.  Did he anticipate permanent stalemate and that we would still be fighting on the same ground, making many of the same arguments—indeed, saying many of the same things—half a century later?