Lyndon B. Johnson wanted his presidency to be focused on civil rights and his domestic programs started with the “Great ...

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 ...

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 January 1968, during the Vietnamese New Year holiday known as Tet, North Vietnamese forces and the Vietcong launched a ...

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 ...

The USS Maddox’ likely incorrect report of an attack on August 4, 1964, paved the way for a dramatic escalation of the Vietnam War—changing ... President Lyndon B. Johnson used the alleged ...

For 50th anniversary of Vietnam War ending, I traveled in Vietnam. The war's painful schisms were personal for me: I'm the son of Robert McNamara.

US divisive escalation in Vietnam began several months before President Lyndon B. Johnson first deployed American ... a resolution which allowed him to enter war in Southeast Asia.

Lyndon B. Johnson wanted his presidency to be focused on civil rights and his domestic programs started with the “Great Society” — but the shadow of Vietnam loomed over the White House.