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6 days ago · Lyndon B. Johnson significantly escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He increased American troop presence and authorized extensive bombing campaigns, driven by the belief in...
Instead his time in office is mostly associated with deepening American involvement in the war in Vietnam which ultimately proved futile. Its legacy was 58,220 American soldiers dead, a huge drain on the nation’s finances, social polarisation and the tarnishing of the reputation of the United States.
6 days ago · In August 1964, in response to an alleged attack by North Vietnamese patrol boats on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, the U.S. Congress authorized Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson to take any action necessary to deal with threats against U.S. forces and allies in Southeast Asia.
The onset of that American war in Vietnam, which was at its most violent between 1965 and 1973, is the subject of these annotated transcripts, made from the recordings President Lyndon B. Johnson taped in secret during his time in the White House.
In early August 1964, two U.S. destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam radioed that they had been fired upon by North Vietnamese forces. In response to these reported incidents, President Lyndon B. Johnson requested permission from the U.S. Congress to increase the U.S. military presence in Indochina.
Mar 6, 2015 · Fifty years ago, during the first six months of 1965, Lyndon Johnson made the decision to Americanize the conflict in Vietnam. His vice-president, Hubert Humphrey advised him against it. So...
1969, President Lyndon B. Johnson, as the commander-in-chief, escalated American military involvement in Vietnam. His management of the Tet Offensive in 1968, in which the North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong guerillas coordinated a large-scale surprise attack against cities throughout South Vietnam, is particularly significant.
