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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
An ABC News Studios documentary "The Lady Bird Diaries," which launches on Hulu on Nov. 13, features selected audio passages ...
Back in 1968, amid growing political unrest over the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson made a primetime speech in which he declared he wouldn't seek another term in the White House.
"We don't pick our wars," President and Founder of Vets ... but the large majority are still living. Johnson said eight Orangeburg County Vietnam War veterans have already signed up for this ...
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.
President Johnson then got to work ... Luther King Jr. The foreign crisis was that of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War where American forces were trying to fend off the aggression of communist ...
Example Bombing President Johnson ordered the bombing of strategic ... sending soldiers into the jungle and villages of Vietnam to ‘take the war to the enemy’. This often meant soldiers ...
The event honored the veterans present, mourned those who were lost, and highlighted the work governments are doing to uplift ...
In 1968, with mounting criticism of the Vietnam War at home and abroad, President Johnson announced that he would stop the bombing of North Vietnam and that he would not run for re-election the ...