April 7, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered his first major speech on the war in Vietnam. Opposition to the war had been growing as a result of Operation Rolling Thunder, an expanded U.S ...

Challenges: Lyndon B. Johnson dealt with racial unrest as well as anti-war protests, as the Vietnam War was highly debated. By 1968, the United States had 548,000 troops in Vietnam; 30,000 American ...

President Richard M. Nixon told Americans the war had ended, the Paris Peace Accords would be signed, and U.S. soldiers would come home.

President Lyndon ... or play." Johnson's staff worked on the genesis of the Great Society here and coined the phrase "War on Poverty." They agonized over the military escalation in Vietnam ...

Kennedy began, and Lyndon B. Johnson continued ... and last but hardly least, the war in Vietnam “Rightly or wrongly, I felt from the very first day in office that I had to carry on for ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson informed ... about ending the war, the United States could resume bombing. Hanoi must also agree to let the elected government of South Vietnam join in the negotiations.

President Lyndon B. Johnson was over 30 minutes into a speech on the Vietnam War when he shocked Americans by saying he wouldn’t seek re-election. Photo: Bettman Archive ...

(See Cover) Even if the television tube and a ubiquitous Texan had yet to be conceived, the President of the U.S. in the latter third of the 20th century would almost certainly be the world’s ...

Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, arguing that for all four of them, “at some point, ambition for… The Tet Offensive began in stealth 50 years ago in Vietnam, but it ended up splashed on ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B ... War II he served briefly in the Navy as a lieutenant commander, winning a Silver Star in the ...