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Declassified Documents Reveal That The Commander Of U.S. Forces Planned A Nuclear Attack During The Vietnam War
General Westmoreland wanted nuclear weapons sent to South Vietnam in the event of defeat, though President Johnson swiftly ...
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Memoriae Aeternae: March 29, National Vietnam War Veterans Day
Commentators like Burns never reveal the brutality of Ho Chi Minh, who slaughtered hundreds in his quest to forge a communist ...
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Tom Paxton’s ‘Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation’: The voice of protest in American folk music
Paxton's lyrics highlighted the duplicity of then-President Lyndon B. Johnson, who publicly denied escalating the Vietnam War while simultaneously deploying increasing numbers of American soldiers ...
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How the USS Maddox Started the Vietnam War
The USS Maddox’ likely incorrect report of an attack on August 4, 1964, paved the way for a dramatic escalation of the ...
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Visions of a Great Society swallowed up in the quagmire of Vietnam — Lyndon Johnson exploited his mastery of the legislative process to shepherd a collection of progressive programs ...
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March 31, LBJ announces he won’t run for reelection
On March 31, 1968, at the conclusion of a nationally broadcast address on Vietnam, President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned ...
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Lesson Plan: First 100 Days - Lyndon Johnson (1963)
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer talked about the assassination of President John Kennedy, the event that led ...
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Vietnam: The War That Changed America’ On Apple TV+, A Docuseries On The Controversial War And The People Who Fought It
The Vietnam War was a complex ... It was a major driving factor that pushed President Lyndon Johnson to not seek re-election in 1968, and the war generated some of the biggest protests the ...