For John Gardner, the course of the war in Vietnam led him to resign from President Johnson's cabinet. At the time, he never explained why he resigned, and Gardner never spoke out against the war ...

Editor's Note: This article is part of KSAT’s special, "50 Years After The Fall: From Saigon to San Antonio," highlighting how the war ... President Lyndon B. Johnson knew the Vietnam situation ...

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 ...

my mind isn’t thinking about Vietnam. And then, boom, something will happen.” Johnson and Ellender say they’re unsure what was gained in the war. But the losses, they say, are undeniable.