April 7, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered his first major speech on the war in Vietnam. Opposition to the war had been growing as a result of Operation Rolling Thunder, an expanded U.S ...

US President Lyndon B. Johnson has inherited an ongoing crisis ... threatening the US position in the region against the Soviet Union in the Cold War. At first, he adopts the policy of training ...

Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President John Kennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, ...

Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer talked about the assassination of President John Kennedy, the event that led to Lyndon ... Vietnam War when Johnson took ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into ... when we would work or play." Johnson's staff worked on the genesis of the Great Society here and coined the phrase "War on Poverty." ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B ... War II he served briefly in the Navy as a lieutenant commander, winning a Silver Star in the ...