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 ability of American citizens to protest against government activity that they disagree with is a fundamental right afforded us by the Constitution. As a collegian during the mid-'60s I ...

Saturday, March 29, marked National Vietnam Veterans Day. Additionally, the state of Washington designated March 30 as Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day (2013 House Bill 1319), honoring those who ...

WHEN Lyndon ... in Vietnam — more of the same — was very nearly certain. And Kennedy, at his death, was not moving openly toward ending the war. A GOOD deal, moreover, is known of Johnson ...

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 ...

During his 1948 Senate campaign, Lyndon Johnson (hat raised ... big business and big labor besides, but Johnson was a young man—why, virtually a war hero!—who would lead Americans to Peace ...

Though he originally supported the war ... Vietnam” during his stay, said the author’s wife in an interview after his death. University of Virginia Press In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson ...