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 ...
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 ...
The Vietnam War was not the United States' bloodiest ... It dawned on me -- slowly, but powerfully -- that I did not believe that Lyndon Johnson should run for re-election. It was not a half ...
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 B. Johnson barked into the two-way radio ... "As the situation in Vietnam deteriorated, the news coverage really got under his skin," supervisory agent Mike Ryan said during ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s portrayal in movies such as ‘The Early Years’ and ’All the Way’ offers a lesson for our divided ...
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 ...
An ABC News Studios documentary "The Lady Bird Diaries," which launches on Hulu on Nov. 13, features selected audio passages ...
Our chief economics commentator says voters were angry about high prices, while our polling specialist says social issues ...
Dr. Gaetano Thomas Anthony Viti served with the Second Battalion Fifth Marines, 1st Marine Division, in An Hoa, South Vietnam ...
The Vietnam jungle was so thick that it swallowed up the sunlight. Yet there was the enemy, Charlie, the Viet Cong. It was ...
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 ...