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 ...

US President Lyndon B. Johnson has inherited an ongoing crisis in the south-east Asian nation of Vietnam from his predecessor, John F. Kennedy. The crisis involves the spreading of communism from ...

The Great Society, which paralleled the New Deal in generating innovative solutions and opportunities for marginalized ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson informed ... about 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.

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B ... War II he served briefly in the Navy as a lieutenant commander, winning a Silver Star in the ...

The Vietnam War was a complex ... Cambodia and Laos over the bulk of the war, which was from 1965-75. It was a major driving factor that pushed President Lyndon Johnson to not seek re-election ...