A few days before Halloween, Lyndon Johnson had become the first president since Franklin Roosevelt to visit an active battle zone by traveling to a war-torn South Vietnam. While a quarter century ...

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 ...

For many Americans, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson is a distant memory marked by tragedy—the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the assassination of Martin ...

When John Gardner became the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, he was joining President Lyndon Johnson not ... by his ambitions in Vietnam. The cost of the war in Vietnam along with ...

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 ...

And so when the military requested that Dow Chemical produce napalm for the Vietnam war effort, company leaders said yes. As Dow director of public ... is [President Lyndon] Johnson and you ...

A Story of War, Peace and Redemption in Vietnam. US Texas Tech University’s Vietnam Centre and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive has handed over a collection of diaries and letters of Vietnamese soldiers, ...

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - US Congress gave President Lyndon Johnson permission to wage war on North Vietnam. The first major contingent of US Marines arrived in 1965. For the next ten years the ...

My grandparents loaded me, my aunt, and my cousin into a Winnebago to drive us all down to Lyndon B. Johnson National ... helped dull the wounds of the Vietnam War, in particular.

and nuanced review to date of the foreign policy of the Lyndon Johnson era. It demonstrates US concern not just with the Soviet Union, Europe, and nuclear weapons issues, but the overwhelming ...

Dedicated to the 36th president of the United States, the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library ... You can also access the library via public transportation. For more information, check out ...