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 ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson’s portrayal in movies such as ‘The Early Years’ and ’All the Way’ offers a lesson for our divided ...

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 ...

Visions of a Great Society swallowed up in the quagmire of Vietnam — Lyndon Johnson exploited his mastery of the legislative process to shepherd a collection of progressive programs ...

In the wake of a tumultuous presidential election, columnist Alma Rutgers reflects on how casting her first vote in 1964 ...

the only permanent installation of a Vietnam War Memorial panel outside Washington, D.C., connects visitors to the complexities of the war and its impact on President Lyndon B. Johnson's legacy.

Survey respondents recall casting ballots for Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Obama and ...

Here is a history lesson we should all remember. Arch-conservative Barry Goldwater challenged Lyndon Johnson in 1964 by ...

Public support for the war was below 50 percent, which wasn’t a positive reflection on then-President Lyndon Johnson. U.S. marshals struggle with a demonstrator during an anti-Vietnam War ...

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 ...

The Vietnam War raged on with no end in sight, and in the United States a struggling President Lyndon B. Johnson declined to run for office again. The anti-war Democratic candidate, Eugene ...

Fifty-seven years ago, my father issued a prophetic denunciation of the war in Vietnam. His speech at the Riverside Church in ...