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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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… in the residence section of the White House and at the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, Texas. While President, Johnson … a variety of topics. They include: foreign policy, the Vietnam War and peace negotiations, legislation, civil …
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. …
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… shed light on a little-known chapter in the history of the Vietnam War. That month, Nixon was desperate to get South … regarded Nixon's political career over. Nixon and LBJ When Richard Nixon hired diplomatic correspondent John …
Oral History Interviews
… you come. [BREAK] Berkowitz There is a whole series of LBJ recorded conversations about the Goldberg UN appointment. … basically one of continuity, just about total continuity. LBJ left Bobby alone, Bobby left the department alone. He … it, it’s a great book. Why does Kennedy stop talking about Vietnam after February of 1966? He doesn’t say anything about …
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 …
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… Johnson. Hoover, however, was not telling the truth. While LBJ had ordered several kinds of FBI surveillance in 1968 to find out whether Nixon was sabotaging his Vietnam peace negotiations, bugging the nominee’s campaign …
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… by painting his GOP rival as a warmonger. Yet, ironically, LBJ’s own piecemeal approach to Vietnam destroyed his presidency. He began the war without …
The next president must weigh carefully the decision to go to war
Oral History Interviews
… my parents were from Brooklyn. He was between Korea and Vietnam. When he left the Marines he joined the FBI [Federal … He was always down in New Orleans. I can't remember--LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson] visited some site. If President …
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… sought to derail the opening of peace talks to end the Vietnam War—negotiations that the Lyndon B. Johnson White … picture of that extra-governmental diplomacy, and LBJ shared the thrust of his findings in telephone …
The revelations about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ discussions with Russian officials in 2016 signal that the Logan Act may once again be back in the news
Oral History Interviews
… once concerning the Soviet Union and China as related to Vietnam and the invasion of Afghanistan and so forth. But in … For one thing, there is the suspicion of Presidents after Vietnam and Watergate. The other half of the question is … and some of the things he did, unleashing Chiang Kai-Shek, LBJ and Vietnam—foreign policy never seems to be a plus in …
Oral History Interviews
… the detail is simply that we had worked on versions of the Vietnam plank that would allow us to avoid a confrontation on … we’ll move on to your affiliation— Allen But after all, LBJ was doing a lot of taping too, great tapes. But Henry …
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… that might allow him to aid a presidential challenge to LBJ by Robert F. Kennedy. In these conversation excerpts, … after Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive in South Vietnam, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara offered his …
Listen to key recordings from the first month of an eventful year.
Presidential Biographies
… 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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… challenge President Johnson for the Democratic nomination, LBJ reached out to the New York Senator for help on … the conversation, Johnson briefly turned to the subject of Vietnam. Tape: WH6802-03-12731 , Lyndon Johnson and Robert …
Secret White House recordings reveal a year quickly unraveling for President Lyndon Johnson
Oral History Interviews
… of the high water mark of the U.S. public reaction against Vietnam, against American involvements overseas, and the … like that, I don’t think—after a while I don’t think LBJ did either. Tom Wicker sort of came on, after the …
Oral History Interviews
… working on electronic warfare matters during the Vietnam War. My area was surface warfare. I was a surface … photography during the Vietnam war, the classic picture of LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson] sitting on the floor with photos …
Oral History Interviews
… Watergate having been the last act of it all, of the whole Vietnam division and acrimony and so forth. It’s hard to … only southern. You saw some of this, I think also, with LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson], some of this kind of derogation …
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… Kennedy (D-N.Y.) to enter the race. Two weeks later, LBJ made a stunning speech from the Oval Office, declaring: … of McCarthy and Kennedy had pushed the president—mired in Vietnam War controversy and running at a 36 percent approval …
No president in the 20th or 21st centuries has been denied nomination by his party—which is a good sign for President Trump.
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… Milkis and Daniel J. Tichenor President Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam, December 23, 1967 [image courtesy National Archives] … Movement: Views from the Front Line" [image courtesy LBJ Presidential Library] The Democratic National …
The uneasy collaboration between Lyndon Johnson and the civil rights movement marked a development more than fifty years in the making thanks to the advent of the modern presidency during the Progressive Era.