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 ...
General Westmoreland wanted nuclear weapons sent to South Vietnam in the event of defeat, though President Johnson swiftly ...
President Lyndon B ... play." Johnson's staff worked on the genesis of the Great Society here and coined the phrase "War on Poverty." They agonized over the military escalation in Vietnam ...
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 ...
On the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech, we are reminded how government can address concerns with ...