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

August 1964. US President Lyndon B. Johnson has inherited an ongoing crisis in the south-east Asian nation of Vietnam from his predecessor, John F. Kennedy. The crisis involves the spreading of ...

On the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech, we are reminded how government can address concerns with ...

The Vietnam War was not the United States' bloodiest ... It dawned on me -- slowly, but powerfully -- that I did not believe that Lyndon Johnson should run for re-election. It was not a half ...

Visions of a Great Society swallowed up in the quagmire of Vietnam — Lyndon Johnson exploited his mastery of the legislative process to shepherd a collection of progressive programs ...

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 ...

Paxton's lyrics highlighted the duplicity of then-President Lyndon B. Johnson, who publicly denied escalating the Vietnam War while simultaneously deploying increasing numbers of American soldiers ...

Kennedy was killed and Lyndon Johnson became the 36th president ... show of military might because of the failures of the war in Vietnam then dogging his presidency. Nonetheless, during the ...

At the beginning of the election season, President Lyndon Johnson was the front ... That was not surprising, even though Humphrey supported Johnson's Vietnam policy, as he was respected by ...

Xhloe and Natasha show the type of chemistry where you can imagine them still working together in three decades’ time. Don’t ...