US President Lyndon B. Johnson has inherited an ongoing crisis ... This is the story of how the Vietnam War would become the Pharmacological War. USAID employees around the world will be placed ...

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 ...

The Vietnam War was not the United States' bloodiest ... It dawned on me -- slowly, but powerfully -- that I did not believe that Lyndon Johnson should run for re-election. It was not a half ...

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 ...

Paxton's lyrics highlighted the duplicity of then-President Lyndon B. Johnson, who publicly denied escalating the Vietnam War while simultaneously deploying increasing numbers of American soldiers ...

Kennedy was killed and Lyndon Johnson became ... the 1967 Six-Day War, but he felt constrained from a dramatic show of military might because of the failures of the war in Vietnam then dogging ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...