I nominate this as the greatest tweet in the history of Twitter

I’m not sure anything can really justify the existence of that hellsite, but this probably comes as close as one tweet can:

Meanwhile, back in the actual 1960s:

Most Admired Man

1967 Dec 7-12, (i.e., four months before MLK’s murder)

Gallup Poll

1

Dwight Eisenhower

2

Lyndon Johnson

3

Billy Graham

4

Robert Kennedy

5

Pope Paul VI

6

Everett Dirksen

7

Richard Nixon

8

George Wallace

9

Ronald Reagan

10

Harry Truman