The USS Maddox’ likely incorrect report of an attack on August 4, 1964, paved the way for a dramatic escalation of the ...

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

When Dwight Eisenhower took office intending to end the Korean War quickly ... when President Lyndon Johnson requested Park Chung-hee to deploy South Korean troops to Vietnam, the South Korean ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s father swept into Lawrence, Kan., 57 years ago this month to give a campaign speech. It ...

He worked with a Democratic House and Senate to pass more legislation than any president other than Lyndon B. Johnson since ... lasting major peace treaty since World War II.

The U.S. government ran persistent deficits, attempting to finance both the Vietnam War and an ambitious domestic ... forcing President Lyndon Johnson to intervene. He attempted to stem the ...

Wages had risen in conjunction with inflation and government spending was growing rapidly due to a combination of the quagmire of the Vietnam War and ... by Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society ...

The 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s famous ... combat forces in South Vietnam, dramatically changing the nature of the U.S. military commitment to the war. But the same president ...

A 110-year-old Colorado estate that has hosted Frank Sinatra and Lyndon B. Johnson just slashed $10 million off its price tag. The 12,000-square-foot manor house—with 25 rooms—and its five ...

Barely more than two years after Green Beret Robert Howard’s heroic attempt to retrieve a severely injured lieutenant from enemy-controlled territory during the Vietnam War, he stood before ...

Like a proverbial snowball careening down a hill, The War and Treaty seems to get bigger and gain momentum on a regular basis. The soulful husband-wife duo that formed in Albion 11 years ago has ...