The first political outcome of the war was that Lyndon Johnson did not try to run for president in 1968. More long lasting effects of the war include the fact that people trust the government much less than they used to. This comes in part from the feeling that the government did not tell the truth about the war.
Socially, I think the war helped to lead to our "culture wars" that we have today. The people who supported the war saw themselves as the real Americans whose values were under attack by the long-haired, anti-American protestors. This has helped lead to the conflict between traditional and non-traditional people today.
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