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. What ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson held a news conference about the war in Vietnam and announced a large increase in American f… User Created Clips from This Video December 31, 1969 ...

On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson culminated a weeklong series of meetings with his top diplomatic, intelligence and military advisers.

Vietnam is the stain on Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency that will forever keep him from joining the top ranks of American presidents. ... Vietnam is primarily seen as Johnson’s war.

Perhaps Lyndon B. Johnson’s greatest fear--that his name would forever be linked in failure with the war in Vietnam--is realized in the title of a new documentary on the former president. Yet ...

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 ...

Lyndon Johnson did not initiate American involvement in Vietnam. Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy laid the groundwork for U.S. intervention. But the Vietnam War would come to be seen as Johnson's war.

President Lyndon B. Johnson wrestled with social justice, ... Americans hold of what their country can achieve in the world—and I think that, too, traces back to the period of the Vietnam War.

The history of political opposition to theVietnam War needs to be expanded to include the stances ofsome key Republican members of Congress who stood up to President Lyndon B. Johnson, argues ...

In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly 40 minutes into a speech on the Vietnam War when he closed with a stunning announcement: He would not seek another term. From the Oval Office ...