I assume you weren't born when all this happened. If you had been you might have a different perspective on it.

My entire understanding of LBJ was as the Vietnam president. After seeing All the Way and The Great Society back to back last Saturday, I was introduced to a complex character that did more to change - no, improve - this country than any president since. I was astonished. Perhaps I just wasn't paying attention in History, but I'm sure I'm not alone.

The plays were both tremendous. Hats off to the Rep for staging them, hats off to Robert Schenkkan for crafting them.

I was born before all of this happened. I witnessed these events as a conscious and thinking person, and I find this to be an excellent critical review of a what appears to be a very "worth reviewing" play. I'm glad we do not ask reviewers to have witnessed all of the history informing the art they review.

"American Berserk" I love that phrase to describe the time. As some forgotten sage said, History can rhyme, it does not repeat. The spirit of our time is not the civil unrest of race inequality; the protest today is a segment on Cable News, a topic for talk radio. Our Zeitgeist is not civil rights, it is obsessions with smartphones and data packages and NFL teams...it is about want, not need.