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 ...

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 ...

The Vietnam War was a complex, controversial conflict that cost tens of thousands of American soldiers’ lives, and hundreds ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...