American public for one reason. Vietnam. Johnson is the president identified with the vietnam war, although there is a famous quote from october 13, 1967 where he said to a journalist, this is not Lyndon Johnsons war. This is americas war. If i drop dead tomorrow, this war still be here. He was right. But the way it was fought has been ascribed to Lyndon Johnson. It is considered his tragedy, failure, the trail, depending on your position of the spectrum. There are two books both entitled Lyndon Johnsons war, and both advancing compelling if contradictory analyses of the reasons behind the series of decisions made between 1964 and 1868 that led to justification for escalating the war, the gulf incident of 1964, the first landing of u. S. Combat troops to defend the base in 1965, the stepped up escalation of forces in the country over the next two years until the total was greater than half a million men, the changeover from based security to enclave security, to finally what was called
Influenced johnsons desire to be seen as a strong, confident foreignpolicy president. Welcome. Todays subject is Lyndon Johnson. He is best member for one reason. Vietnam. Johnson is the president identified with the vietnam war, although there is a famous quote from october 13, 1967 where he said to a journalist, this is not Lyndon Johnsons war. This is americas war. If i drop dead tomorrow, this war. Still be here. He was right. But the way it was fought has been ascribed to Lyndon Johnson. It is considered his tragedy, failure, the trail, depending on your position of the spectrum. There are two books both entitled Lyndon Johnsons war, and both advancing compelling if contradictory analyses of the reasons behind the series of decisions made between 1964 and 1868 that led to justification for escalating the war, the gulf incident of 1964, the first landing of u. S. Combat troops to defend the base in 1965, the stepped up escalation of forces in the country over the next two years unt
A law to completely dismantle any trace of former president Omar Al Bashir is regime. And Europe Space Agency unveils plans to discover new secrets about the red planet. U. S. President donald trump has amounts peace talks have resumed with the Afghan Taliban the news came as trump made a surprise visit to afghanistans bad ram air base where he met with president ashraf ghani and u. S. Soldiers stationed there wasnt jordan as more. The u. S. Commander in chief celebrates thanksgiving with troops at Bob Graham Air base in afghanistan a tradition going back to the start of the conflict against the taliban in 2001 but after 18 years its a war washington is struggling to finish and donald trump says hes lies in the hands of the taliban the taliban wants to make a deal well see if they want to make a deal its going to be a real deal but well see but they want to make a deal and they only want to make a deal because youre doing a great job the chillers they want to make a few trouble now. Ba
In london with the top stories from europe including a desperate search for survivors after the most powerful earthquake in decades the strikes albania killing at least 20. Tackles and accusations but the u. K. s Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn insists there is no place for antisemitism in his party. With the sport where the 24th arabian gulf cop has kicked off right here in doha this years edition having extra political significance with the blockading nations of saudi arabia bahrain and the you are all taking part. Crowds of people accusing un peacekeepers of failing to protect them from rebel attacks and still out on the streets in eastern tip. Republic of congo now there defying a curfew imposed after a 2nd day of protest at least 2 people were killed on tuesday as thousands tried to march to a u. N. Base on monday 4 people died when protesters stormed another u. N. Compound and ransacked government buildings well be live to our correspondent catherine. In just a moment but alexia
Ukrainian nazism, built on bandera and shikhevich, who are terrible, which means the murderers of the jewish people, he is now in a pile of all the gods, that is, here is a person absolutely devoid of some, well, just historical tact of taste, lets start with biden, and then ill get there before the europeans, when we speak, we listen to american president s, in principle , from the oval office it was always truman, who. In a televised address to the nation from the oval office, emphasized the idea of why we we are entering the cold war, well, the idea of containment, there may be examples of the same byne being compared with carter, so carter spoke on december 15, 1978, announcing that we were establishing diplomatic relations with china, this had to be explained to the americans, they fought, fought here we are establishing with the peoples republic of china, after september 11, 2001, bush spoke, so i looked at what biden was doing, yes, here we are now, it is clear that