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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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… In an effort to provide space for negotiations during the Vietnam War, Johnson ordered a cessation of air strikes … Eisenhower Conversation Number : WH6601-10-9533 … … LBJ and Eisenhower on Bombing North Vietnam …
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… adviser, McGeorge Bundy, discuss the problems in South Vietnam. Date : Mar 02, 1964 Time : 12:35 Participants : … Number : WH6403.01 #2309 Full Screen Mode … … LBJ and McGeorge Bundy discuss Vietnam …
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… Johnson reveals his deeply conflicted thinking on Vietnam, a profound sense of anxiety absent from his public … : WH6405.10 #3519, #3520, #3521 Full Screen Mode … … LBJ and Richard Russell on Vietnam (long version) …
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… with national security officials reaffirmed the continuity LBJ was desperate to project; as reported in the New York … initial increment of those 1,000 troops did indeed leave Vietnam. Speaking prior to their departure on December 3, …
The president didn't see bringing troops home as constructive, especially as he intensified the war effort.
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… in the aftermath of his landslide 1964 election victory. LBJ provides a negative model: what Biden should not do in … Yet all was not well. Protests against the war in Vietnam and rebellions against racial injustice in American …
President Biden could learn from the mistakes President Johnson made as he managed a splintered Democratic Party
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… exchange occurred later in the same conversation in which LBJ had read to Eisenhower the statement trying to defuse press reports of a difference of opinion on Vietnam between Johnson and Eisenhower. Sympathizing with …
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. …
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… never in victory. But one of the least learned lessons of Vietnam is that a happy ending does not require victory. … … kicking the can down the road becomes the war’s loser. As LBJ said to Eugene McCarthy two years before the Tet …
Our war in Indochina shows that endless wars do end, though almost never in victory. But one of the least learned lessons of Vietnam is that a happy ending does not require victory.
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… As the historian Keith W. Olson contends, “Watergate and Vietnam…contributed significantly to a fundamental distrust … in South Vietnam. The international conflict turned LBJ into a villain in the White House, and created a …
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… Russell highlights the serious early concerns about Vietnam prevalent among Johnson and his close advisers. … that "it isn't important a damn bit" in response to an LBJ query about the relevance of Vietnam for American …
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 …
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… > An Exceptional Alliance: Johnson, Eisenhower, and the Vietnam War “I’m going to lean on you in the days ahead.” … this player. August 18, 1965 Citation #8555, WH6508.05. LBJ Library President Johnson: They want to get us in a …
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… Poverty, the consequences of street protests that cast the Vietnam War and the anti-poverty effort as mutually-exclusive … Bill Moyers Conversation Number : WH6612.11 #11206 … … LBJ on Sargent Shriver, Politics, and the War on Poverty …
Public Events
… 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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… resolution was a pivotal moment in the escalation of the Vietnam War. But what was the incident that provoked its … is one of several related NMCC recordings released by the LBJ Library in June 2002. [Chart originally prepared for The …
The August 1964 passage of the Tonkin Gulf resolution was a pivotal moment in the escalation of the Vietnam War. But what was the incident that provoked its passage?
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… policy matters, including press comment on Cuba and Vietnam. Date : Mar 28, 1964 Participants : Lyndon Johnson, … Number : WH6403.17-2682, 2683 Full Screen Mode … … LBJ on Managing Congress and the Press …
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… Johnson. Cranston fully inhabits the role and captures LBJ’s particular essence in all its complexities, … Johnson congressional authorization to escalate the war in Vietnam), and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party’s …
HBO’s "All the Way," which airs for the first time on May 21, is a remarkable historical drama. Adapted by Robert Schenkkan from his Tony Award winning play, "All the Way" features Bryan Cranston as President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Cranston fully inhabits the role and captures LBJ’s particular essence in all its complexities, contradictions, and insecurities.