A new addition to the LBJ Presidential Library offers a profound reflection on the Vietnam War: Panel 44 from the Vietnam ...

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 ...

Lyndon B Johnson, the 36th US President, is remembered for his ‘Great Society’ programmes, which aimed to combat poverty and ...

Military spending not only has national and global impacts, it affects the economy too. The United States spends more on the ...

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 ...

In every war, children perish. It’s the worst thing about conflict, this dragging of innocents into the swirling maelstrom of ...

Summary and Key Points: Logan Nye's article revisits the restrictive rules of engagement (ROE) imposed on U.S. combat aviators by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the Vietnam War, which severely ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson is in the midst of a re-election campaign ... In 1964, Ball wrote to Secretary of State Dean Rusk about his concerns about escalation in North Vietnam, concluding, “Why are ...

LOS ANGELES >>No one knows where Everett Titterington was when the first torpedoes slammed into the USS Oklahoma on that ...

Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the United ... Act through Congress and won a term as president before the Vietnam War eroded his support. President Johnson's visions of a Great Society ...

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