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Lyndon B. Johnson and the Vietnam War

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🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Lyndon B. Johnson wanted to wage a war on poverty. Instead, he waged a war halfway around the world in Vietnam. That conflict defined him, his presidency, and the decade of the 1960s. Historian Bill Whittle tells the story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It was 2.38 p.m. Central Standard time on November 22nd, 1963.

0:37.0

President John F. Kennedy was dead, assassinated less than two hours earlier.

0:42.0

In the cramped quarters of a blue and white Boeing 707 with the call sign Air Force 1,

0:47.0

Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson took the oath of office. He was now the 36th president of the United States. He was born just

0:56.2

two hundred and seven miles to the southwest in a dusty patch of road called Stonewall,

1:00.7

Texas on August 27th, 1908.

1:04.2

Linden Johnson's childhood was spent in what

1:06.4

biographer Robert Carroll described as a land

1:09.2

without electricity where the soil was so rocky

1:12.3

that it was hard to earn a living from it.

1:14.0

Unlike the perfectly groomed somewhat aloof Kennedy,

1:17.0

Johnson was a classic backslapping, handshaking politician.

1:21.0

Everything Johnson did had Texas dust on it. In his run for the

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