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The Legacy of Johnson's War on Poverty
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Another "legacy" of Johnson's war on poverty is Nixon's war on drugs, which he declared as a political ruse to trump Johnson's coddling of the poor with his own "tough on crime" stance. Both poverty and Nixon's war are still with us, each one feeding off the other.