Lyndon B. Johnson and the Vietnam War | Bill Whittle

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🗓️ 23 September 2024

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Lyndon B. Johnson launched the “War on Poverty” at home, but it was the Vietnam War that came to define his presidency and the turbulent 1960s. In this PragerU 5-Minute Video, historian Bill Whittle explores how LBJ’s domestic ambitions were overshadowed by the escalating conflict in Southeast Asia. Discover how Vietnam reshaped Johnson’s legacy, divided a nation, and changed the course of American history—politically, culturally, and militarily. Get all our content ad-free on PragerU.com or download the PragerU app: https://l.prageru.com/45GvWlu Follow PragerU on social media: YouTube Instagram X/Twitter Facebook Rumble Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.4	It was 238 p.m. Central Standard Time on November 22nd, 1963.
0:41.6	President John F. Kennedy was dead, assassinated less than two hours earlier.
0:47.0	In the cramped quarters of a blue and white Boeing 707 with the call sign Air Force One,
0:50.6	Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson took the oath of office.
0:57.8	He was now the 36th President of the United States. He was born just 207 miles to the southwest in a dusty patch of road called Stonewall, Texas on August 27, 1908. Lyndon Johnson's childhood was
1:05.8	spent in what biographer Robert Caro described as a land without electricity where the soil was so rocky that it was
1:12.6	hard to earn a living from it. Unlike the perfectly groomed somewhat aloof Kennedy, Johnson was a
1:18.4	classic, back-slapping, handshaking politician. Everything Johnson did had Texas dust on it.
1:25.3	In his run for the U.S. Senate in 1948, following 11 years in the House of Representatives,
1:30.4	Johnson drew huge crowds by showing up at campaign events in a never-before-seen, by-God actual helicopter,
1:38.1	which he named the Johnson City Windmill. Out of one million votes cast,
1:43.6	Johnson won the Democratic Senate primary by a mere
1:46.4	87 votes. Beating his Republican opponent in the general election proved to be much easier.
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