Credit where credit is due

So, do you think LBJ will get a shout-out at the Democratic National Convention?  Robert Caro doesn’t think so:

“It would be only just to Johnson,” Caro said. “If the Democratic Party
was going to honestly acknowledge how it came to the point in its
history that it was about to nominate a black American for President,
no speech would not mention Lyndon Johnson.

Tip from the insufferable Andrew Sullivan via Winds of Change.

Update (28 August).  On LBJ’s 100th birthday, Vanderleun spells it out to those of us too thick to remember all that LBJ accomplished:

Indeed, in all the self-congratulatory hoopla this week, Lyndon Johnson
has been conveniently forgotten. He’s been forgotten by the Democrats
for decades and they show no signs of remembering. It is much better
for the party, after all, to inflate the current midgets among them to
the size, shape and substance of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade
balloons. To bring Lyndon into the hall at this point would diminish
the current crop that leads this once proud party even more than they
have diminished themselves. Imagine a Pelosi, a Reid, a Biden, an Obama
placed next to Johnson. Their arms too short to box with Lyndon.