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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kennedy was killed and Lyndon Johnson became ... the 1967 Six-Day War, but he felt constrained from a dramatic show of military might because of the failures of the war in Vietnam then dogging ...