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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, … #AgonyofVietnam. … '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 … pessimism. And I think that’s particularly the case with LBJ and Richard Nixon. Uh, it’s there with Kennedy, um, …
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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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… 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 …
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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 …
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… then candidate Nixon, of a backchannel connection to delay Vietnam War peace talks until after the 1968 election, … President Hubert Humphrey was Democratic Nominee after LBJ withdrew And so the idea that he perhaps violated the law …
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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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… Presidential Recordings Program. “That honor goes to Vietnam.” Straight from the early 1960s barked the voice of … 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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… 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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… 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 …
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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 …