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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On March 31, 1968, at the conclusion of a nationally broadcast address on Vietnam, President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned listeners by declaring, “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination ...

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 ...

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 in poverty in Texas Hill Country, President Johnson delivered an unsurpassed series of momentous legislation, including the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act. Yet by 1968 he was so toxically ...

But Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United ... and his announcement that he would not run for reelection in 1968 with — what else? — ribs. The Johnson's didn't slack on their ...

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 ...