General Westmoreland wanted nuclear weapons sent to South Vietnam in the event of defeat, though President Johnson swiftly ...

August 1964. US President Lyndon B. Johnson has inherited an ongoing crisis in the south-east Asian nation of Vietnam from his predecessor, John F. Kennedy. The crisis involves the spreading of ...

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 ...

On the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech, we are reminded how government can address concerns with ...

the only permanent installation of a Vietnam War Memorial panel outside Washington, D.C., connects visitors to the ...

Paxton's lyrics highlighted the duplicity of then-President Lyndon B. Johnson, who publicly denied escalating the Vietnam War while simultaneously deploying increasing numbers of American soldiers ...

Visions of a Great Society swallowed up in the quagmire of Vietnam — Lyndon Johnson exploited his mastery of the legislative process to shepherd a collection of progressive programs ...

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 ...

The Vietnam War was a complex ... It was a major driving factor that pushed President Lyndon Johnson to not seek re-election in 1968, and the war generated some of the biggest protests the ...