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… of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (Random House, 2012), which won four prizes, … 'What's it worth to this country': LBJ and the Agony of Vietnam …
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… offers a preview of Ken Burns' epic new PBS series, The Vietnam War, which reexamines the conflict as well as its … the last American servicemen and women came home from the Vietnam War—a conflict which in the 1960s and ’70s profoundly … Preview of Ken Burns' new PBS series on the Vietnam War …
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… Press Secretary during his presidency, gives insight into LBJ as a president and as a person. Reedy claims there will … to portray a continuation of the Kennedy administration, Vietnam, LBJ?s withdrawal from the 1968 election, his relationship …
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… set of Johnson transcripts, which examines how LBJ launched his War on Poverty, questioned the viability of U.S. policy in Vietnam, and managed the progress of a historic civil rights …
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… magnitude of the Great Society. The venture is modeled on LBJ’s War , which told the story of Johnson's ruinous entanglement in Vietnam through the same archival materials, including the LBJ Library's oral history collection and the phone calls …
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… Presidential Recordings Program. “That honor goes to Vietnam.” Straight from the early 1960s barked the voice of … John Kennedy and others. “We need a way to get out of Vietnam,” MacNamara said. “This is a way of doing it…” With … Carolina, believes is the most sincere political moment of LBJ’s life: Johnson had almost quit. He’d prepared a press …
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… then candidate Nixon, of a backchannel connection to delay Vietnam War peace talks until after the 1968 election, … been involved in trying to delay a resolution to the Vietnam War, out of fear that a successful peace negotiation … President Hubert Humphrey was Democratic Nominee after LBJ withdrew And so the idea that he perhaps violated the law …
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… East Coast corridor and the West Coast corridor. FACTOID: LBJ was first president to back high speed rail as part of … biography arguing that peace talks between the U.S. and Vietnam were sabotaged in 1968 by presidential candidate …