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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

Forty years ago today in his first State of the Union speech, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "War On Poverty." Johnson's declaration came just weeks after succeeding to the White House ...

President Linden B. Johnson announces Great Society program on Tuesday January 5, 1965. His war on poverty, now costing less than $800 million a year, would be doubled.

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.

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 ...