Marked by turmoil, tragedy and triumph, 1968 was a roller coaster ... and in the United States a struggling President Lyndon B. Johnson declined to run for office again. The anti-war Democratic ...

The only historical parallel is to former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision to withdraw from the 1968 presidential race, and the differences between then and now outweigh any analogy.

Challenges: Lyndon B. Johnson dealt with racial unrest as well as anti-war protests, as the Vietnam War was highly debated. By 1968, the United States had 548,000 troops in Vietnam; 30,000 American ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office ... Controversy over the war had become acute by the end of ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson informed the nation last night that he has ordered a total halt of bombing of North Vietnam. The television announcement came after an hour-and-a-half White House ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way radio ... were 3,878 Amphicars manufactured in West Germany from 1961 to 1968. They came in four colors: beach white, fjord green, regatta ...

Marked by turmoil, tragedy and triumph, 1968 was a roller coaster ... and in the United States a struggling President Lyndon B. Johnson declined to run for office again. The anti-war Democratic ...

Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall ...

Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, arguing that for all four of them, “at some point, ambition for… The Tet Offensive began in stealth 50 years ago in Vietnam, but it ended up splashed on ...