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On your mark. Yes, sir. Bye. We're back in the nation's favorite tent. Let's do this. And it's packed with a fresh batch of famous faces.

As long as it's edible, I'd be happy.

Don't choke, try in my case.

How can it be?

The great celebrity baker for Stand Up to Cancer on Channel 4.

Stream now.

American History TV.

Next on Lectures in History, Boston College Professor Seth Jacobs discusses President

Lyndon Johnson and the factors that led him to escalate the war in Vietnam following

the assassination of his predecessor John F. Kennedy.

Professor Jacobs argues that the 1964 presidential campaign against the hawkish

Barry Goldwater influenced Johnson's desire to be seen as a strong, competent foreign policy president.

Okay, welcome. Today's subject is Lyndon Johnson. And Lyndon Johnson, I think it's fair to say, is best remembered by both historians and the general American public for one reason and one reason only. Vietnam. Johnson is the president most frequently identified with the Vietnam War. Although there is a famous quote from October 13, 1967, in which Johnson said to the journalist Chalmers Roberts,

quote, this is not Lyndon Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow,

this war will still be here, end quote. And he was right, in a way, when he was out of office,

the war continued. But the manner in which the war was fought and lost have been popularly

ascribed to Lyndon Johnson.

Vietnam is widely considered Lyndon Johnson's tragedy, failure, betrayal, etc., depending

on your position on the ideological left-right political spectrum. There are two books in print

right now by Larry Berman and George Herring, both entitled Lyndon Johnson's War and both advancing

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