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Presidential Speeches
… President Johnson holds a press conference at the LBJ Ranch in Texas. He discusses presidential appointments, the United States’ goal in Vietnam, and interactions with Governor Wallace of Alabama. …
Presidential Speeches
… President Johnson holds a press conference at the LBJ Ranch in Texas, spending the majority of his time discussing matters pertaining to Vietnam, including the selective service review, the effect …
Presidential Biographies
… 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. …
Presidential Biographies
… 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 …
Presidential Biographies
… frequently with President Lyndon B. Johnson after LBJ committed combat troops to Vietnam. Eisenhower wrote two volumes of memoirs about his …
Presidential Speeches
… have taken a strong stand on support for South Viet-Nam. The eighth member, France, had reservations on … talk in the press and in Congress relative to the LBJ Company, KTBC, owned by Mrs. Johnson, and relative to a …
Presidential Biographies
… 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. …
Presidential Biographies
… 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 …