US President Lyndon B. Johnson has inherited an ongoing crisis in the south-east Asian nation of Vietnam from his predecessor ...

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 ...

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 ... ending the war, the United States could resume bombing. Hanoi must also agree to let the elected government of South Vietnam join in the negotiations. Johnson asserted ...

President Lyndon B ... 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 ...

Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, arguing that for all four of them, “at some point, ambition for… The Tet Offensive began in stealth 50 years ago in Vietnam, but it ended up splashed on ...