Lyndon B. Johnson wanted his presidency to be focused on civil rights and his domestic programs started with the “Great ...

WHEN Lyndon ... in Vietnam — more of the same — was very nearly certain. And Kennedy, at his death, was not moving openly toward ending the war. A GOOD deal, moreover, is known of Johnson ...

In observance of the coming 50th anniversary of its conclusion, here are nine key moments that defined the Vietnam War.

In January 1968, during the Vietnamese New Year holiday known as Tet, North Vietnamese forces and the Vietcong launched a ...

Aviation played a huge role in how the Vietnam War rolled out—after all, there’s a reason the conflict is also known as “The ...

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 ...

Getty ImagesPresident Lyndon B. Johnson, left, and Gen ... response during one of the most contentious moments of the Vietnam War. The documents outline a 1968 plan devised by General William ...

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 50th anniversary of Vietnam War ending, I traveled in Vietnam. The war's painful schisms were personal for me: I'm the ...

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 ...

Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Though I loved my father then ... In recent years I have learned that, for the people of Vietnam, the war has never ended. Millions of the unexploded bombs and ...