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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

also criticizes Lyndon B. 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 ...

Sir Michael Gambon stars as Lyndon B Johnson as he and his foreign-policy team debate the decision to withdraw from or escalate the war in Vietnam. Biographical drama. (2002) ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Maryland Center for History and Culture in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood has a ceremonial pen within its collection. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill creating the Assateague ...