The Johnson effort is understandable, but it is built on fantasy. When LBJ took the oath of office, there were 19,000 American military in Vietnam. When he left office there were 500,000. Someone ...

Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam: The turning point of the ’60s Johnson visited Vietnam in October 1966. By the end of the year, the war was America's major foreign policy issue ...

As President Bush leads the nation into a new kind of war, 60 Minutes examines the mindset of President Lyndon Johnson when he led America into Vietnam over 35 years ago. According to an audio ...

US President Lyndon B. Johnson has inherited an ongoing crisis in the south-east Asian nation of Vietnam from his predecessor ...

This is certainly true with Lyndon Johnson. A new documentary that is currently streaming on Hulu, based on the book Lady Bird Johnson by Julia Sweig, provides a mesmerizing look at the president ...

As bloodshed continued in Vietnam, as the body count rose on both sides, an increasingly skeptical Grace became more and more opposed to the war, especially after Richard Nixon won the 1968 ...

On March 31, 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States, became a casually of the war in Vietnam, a war that started years before he became President but which, in his time of ...

While the Vietnam War became inseparably intertwined with Johnson's name and was a defining mark of his presidency, he really viewed his Great Society agenda as the legacy he wanted to be ...

Lyndon Johnson - Vietnam. Date: December 23, 1967. ... By the fall of 1967, however, Johnson had all but decided that the war was unwinnable and his pre-Christmas trip to Cam Ranh Bay ...

Arizona State University professor Kyle Longley taught a class on President Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War in 1968. He discussed LBJ's reaction to the Tet Offensive in January, and talked ...

It sounds familiar. An American president from Texas is dismissed as a reckless cowboy, an ignorant provincial, by Europeans. France in particular is up in arms. The United States, fume the French ...

The Vietnam War ended in 1973, but its legacy endures. ... Internal memos by staff and by President Lyndon B. Johnson, February 1, 2, and 16, 1968. LBJ Library, Austin, Texas.