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 ...

President Lyndon Johnson delivered his final State of the Union Address to Congress on January 14, 1969, less than a week before the inauguration of his successor, Republican Richard Nixon. The speech ...

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 ...

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 Lyndon B ... 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. Johnson asserted ...

Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking from the Oval Office on March 31, 1968. I was in high school at the time, and remember watching ...

On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.” Also on this date: In 1790, President George Washington ...

Most recently, in 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson shocked the country when he made the surprise announcement that he would not run at ...