General Westmoreland wanted nuclear weapons sent to South Vietnam in the event of defeat, though President Johnson swiftly ...

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 ...

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 ...

It later came to light that President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the CIA to keep ... held at the height of the Vietnam War, would explore a theme of juvenile delinquency. According to a Washington ...

On the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech, we are reminded how government can address concerns with ...

The “real Forrest Gump” played left tackle for the Manteca High Buffaloes. Sammy Davis — a former Manteca High student and ...

It was Johnson’s increasing involvement of the USA in the war in Vietnam that resulted in the greatest opposition. As more money and effort were needed to conduct the war, Johnson’s Great ...

Poor Lyndon Baines ... We all know that the Vietnam War, which LBJ inherited from his predecessor, John F. Kennedy, was rapidly turning into a huge albatross around Johnson’s neck.

"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 ...