Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.
There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and...
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah sure I'm still optimistic I mean I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
