In January 1968, during the Vietnamese New Year holiday known as Tet, North Vietnamese forces and the Viet Cong launched a ...

WHEN Lyndon ... in Vietnam — more of the same — was very nearly certain. And Kennedy, at his death, was not moving openly toward ending the war. A GOOD deal, moreover, is known of Johnson ...

Born in poverty in Texas Hill Country, President Johnson delivered an unsurpassed series of momentous legislation, including the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act. Yet by 1968 he was so toxically ...

Resistance was so widespread that it helped spark a counterculture movement and led to a wave of anti-war protests around the country.

Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Though I loved my father then ... In recent years I have learned that, for the people of Vietnam, the war has never ended. Millions of the unexploded bombs and ...

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 ...

Aviation played a huge role in how the Vietnam War rolled out—after all, there’s a reason the conflict is also known as “The ...

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 ...

President Lyndon ... or 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 ...

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 ...

For 50th anniversary of Vietnam War ending, I traveled in Vietnam. The war's painful schisms were personal for me: I'm the ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B ... War II he served briefly in the Navy as a lieutenant commander, winning a Silver Star in the ...