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Well, I don't—I'm not sure that it was just a decision to say she was against the war. In Congress, you have to vote on funding for the war. So,

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every time LBJ wanted an additional appropriation to pay for some aspect of the war, 

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one had to make a decision. You know, are you gonna do it? Are you gonna say, okay? Or are you gonna say, not okay? And,

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so in a way, the—that sort of aspect of the legislative involvement in the war was the, was the timetable for coming out publically,

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because once you decide you're going to be voting against the supplemental military authorization for, you know, dropping bombs on Hanoi,

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you have to say why. And that then becomes your statement and, and explanation of your anti-war position. So, 

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I guess that's just to sort of rephrase your question away from making it a decision to come out against the wars, 

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into a decision to vote against her President, right? Her democratic President. And, and that was hard. 

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I think that was hard for her to do. On the other hand, you know, we got to Washington in 1960—December of '64. 

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In April of '65, the first national anti-war march was, transpired on the Washington Mall, 

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and my mother encouraged my father and I to go, so, you know—and we did. 

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So, I think, there was, you know, she already brought with her to Congress a, certainly a critical view of escalation in Vietnam.