As bloodshed continued in Vietnam, as the body count rose on both sides, an increasingly skeptical Grace became more and more opposed to the war, especially after Richard Nixon won the 1968 ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson held a news conference about the war in Vietnam and announced a large increase in American f… User Created Clips from This Video December 31, 1969 ...

Lyndon B. Johnson wanted his presidency to be focused on civil rights and his domestic programs started with the “Great Society” — but the shadow of Vietnam loomed over the White House. What ...

In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly 40 minutes into a speech on the Vietnam War when he closed with a stunning announcement: He would not seek another term.

Lyndon B. Johnson looks on as a U.S. serviceman wounded in Vietnam is gently lifted from a plane, San Antonio, Texas, December 24, 1966. Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) became the 36th President of ...

The Johnson effort is understandable, but it is built on fantasy. When LBJ took the oath of office, there were 19,000 American military in Vietnam. When he left office there were 500,000. Someone ...

On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson began a weeklong series of conferences with his civilian and military advisers on Vietnam. The White House review occurred shortly after Secretary ...

Lyndon Johnson did not initiate American involvement in Vietnam. Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy laid the groundwork for U.S. intervention. But the Vietnam War would come to be seen as Johnson's war.

In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly 40 minutes into a speech on the Vietnam War when he closed with a stunning announcement: He would not seek another term. From the Oval Office ...

On the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech, ... of the first U.S. combat forces in South Vietnam, dramatically changing the nature of the U.S. military commitment to the war.