Johnson (LBJ) for turning the Vietnam War from a guerrilla war to one of conventional warfare. Yet we still could have won the war in 1968! Contrary to the claims of the likes of Walter Cronkite ...

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 Luther King ...

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 ...

Johnson during the Vietnam War, which severely hampered their effectiveness. -These rules prevented preemptive strikes against enemy anti-aircraft units, contributing to significant American losses.

For John Gardner, the course of the war in Vietnam led him to resign from President Johnson's cabinet. At the time, he never explained why he resigned, and Gardner never spoke out against the war ...

LBJ and Vietnam offers an extraordinary inside view of a presidency in crisis and the personal torment of a man torn between completing the task at hand and the unbearable cost of doing so.

LBJ Vietnam stand OK'd by Congress WASHINGTON ... Viet chief takes full war powers SAIGON, South Viet-Nam, Aug. 7, 1964 (UPI) - South Viet-Namese Military Premier Nguyen Khanh proclaimed a ...

Back in 1968, amid growing political unrest over the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson made a primetime speech in which he declared he wouldn't seek another term in the White House.

Example Bombing President Johnson ordered the bombing of strategic ... sending soldiers into the jungle and villages of Vietnam to ‘take the war to the enemy’. This often meant soldiers ...

The Vietnam War was a complex, controversial conflict ... It was a major driving factor that pushed President Lyndon Johnson to not seek re-election in 1968, and the war generated some of the ...

LBJ Vietnam stand OK'd by Congress WASHINGTON ... Viet chief takes full war powers SAIGON, South Viet-Nam, Aug. 7, 1964 (UPI) - South Viet-Namese Military Premier Nguyen Khanh proclaimed a ...