WHEN Lyndon B. Johnson became President he was something of a throwback to another time. He was a decade older than John F. Kennedy — just enough older to identify him with an earlier generation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Feb. 10, 1968, notice by Gen ... But just two days following Westmoreland’s call for arms, President Lyndon B. Johnson vetoed the plan and ordered to have the nukes turned back around.

"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 ...

On March 31, 1968, at the conclusion of a nationally broadcast address on Vietnam, President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned ...

when they meet in a national convention amid evidence of internal divisions unmatched since 1968. To understand the dimensions of the Democrats' calamity, recall that in 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson ...

It was just his third day as a 1968 presidential candidate, and he clearly was trying out themes for his challenge to President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was still a candidate for reelection. Though ...

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 ...

Though still a tentative work-in-progress as a contender for the White House, RFK Sr. delivered remarks that offer a time ...