Vance on Knife’s Edge

Vance on Knife’s Edge

Politics Vance on Knife’s Edge Prioritizing peace among the warmongers. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) President Lyndon B. Johnson, the most vulgar—second-most vulgar?—occupant of the White House, used to boast that he kept Vice President Hubert Humphrey’s “pecker in my pocket.” The Hump was a Cold War liberal who nevertheless expressed reservations about the U.S. role in Vietnam in a memo to Johnson in 1965. He didn’t make that mistake again. HHH …