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… in 1964, he seemed unsinkable but soon floundered amid the Vietnam War. Vietnam—perhaps the most divisive event in … nomination—he set his sights on the White House. JFK and LBJ That year, however, belonged to John Fitzgerald Kennedy. …
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… major initiative in the Lyndon Johnson presidency was the Vietnam War. By 1968, the United States had 548,000 troops in … on complicated political and military considerations. LBJ steered a middle course: The "hawks" in Congress and in …
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… frequently with President Lyndon B. Johnson after LBJ committed combat troops to Vietnam. Eisenhower wrote two volumes of memoirs about his …
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… Soviets, who Goldwater believed were waging a proxy war in Vietnam. Goldwater contended that the Republican Party, … with the Democrats and on October 27, 1964, a week before LBJ's landslide victory, found one in the person of Reagan. …
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… race and class, and the unraveling accelerated during the Vietnam War. The business community and many rank-and-file … election was a reaffirmation of the New Deal and LBJ's "Great Society," but Goldwater carried five states in …