US President Lyndon B. Johnson has inherited an ongoing crisis in the south-east Asian nation of Vietnam from his predecessor ...
For many Americans, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson is a distant memory marked by tragedy—the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the assassination of Martin ...
By the end of 1962, the number of American military advisers had reached 11,000 ... but powerfully -- that I did not believe that Lyndon Johnson should run for re-election. It was not a half ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson informed the nation last night ... an hour-and-a-half White House meeting with top diplomatic and military advisers, and confirmed recent speculation that such a ...
Kennedy was killed and Lyndon Johnson became the 36th president ... but he felt constrained from a dramatic show of military might because of the failures of the war in Vietnam then dogging ...
Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall ...