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, the bloodshed that haunted the nation ...

General Westmoreland wanted nuclear weapons sent to South Vietnam in the event of defeat, though President Johnson swiftly ...

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 ...

That’s not quite right. Here is what really happened. We all know that the Vietnam War, which LBJ inherited from his predecessor, John F. Kennedy, was rapidly turning into a huge albatross ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sam Johnson, a long-serving Texas congressman and an Air Force pilot held as a prisoner while fighting in the Vietnam War, died Wednesday, according to multiple news outlets. He was 89.

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 ...

In 1968, with mounting criticism of the Vietnam War at home and abroad, President Johnson announced that he would stop the bombing of North Vietnam and that he would not run for re-election the ...