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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.
Oral History Interviews
… at that time—and then came back and was a real hawk on the Vietnam War, very strong pro-war. He had had a very good … in the Senate or out in the country for opposition to LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson]—as distinct from his …
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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
Oral History Interviews
… … Hyannis Port, Massachusetts … Kennedy discusses the Vietnam War and the lessons he learned from it. … Young This … lottery. Young You said he was nervous at the beginning, LBJ was—he didn’t know what he would be hearing. I think most …
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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. …
Oral History Interviews
… there was this reputed tension between Bobby Kennedy and LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson]. I’m just wondering about Edward … the war. He hadn’t been as polarizing. So in relation to LBJ. I remember the first time I met LBJ. I went with Ted to … first year, and it was just at the time of the buildup in Vietnam. The bombing had been February and the troop buildup …
Oral History Interviews
… up almost by coincidence. It was partly a product of the Vietnam War. For years there had been some support in the … Assistant Secretary with Treasury for Tax Policy in the LBJ Administration and in JFK’s [John Fitzgerald Kennedy] …
Oral History Interviews
… political careers. There is extensive discussion of the Vietnam War. The 1972 presidential campaign is discussed in … and because I knew that he was struggling with that issue, LBJ, how many kids have you killed today? and all those …
Oral History Interviews
… a—there was a big story in Paris about a peace feeler on Vietnam to Bobby. Bobby said he never heard of it, didn’t … him often, and never in flattering terms. Germany On the LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson] recordings, when they talk, it’s …
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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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… 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 …
Oral History Interviews
… years when Nixon had to leave. It was also the time of the Vietnam War, and also, of course, this was right after the … up until that time. As you know, this was the end of the LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson] Presidency. I want to say Stuart …