LBJ and the Vietnam War Archives - R. Lawson Author https://rlawsonauthor.com/tag/lbj-and-the-vietnam-war/ Intelligent Thrillers Sat, 18 Jan 2020 19:55:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 55015724 The Vietnam war Revisited- Part XVII – LBJ Out, Nixon In https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-xvii-lbj-out-nixon-in/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-xvii-lbj-out-nixon-in/#respond Sat, 18 Jan 2020 19:52:25 +0000 http://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=1041 To see all of the posts in this series, please scroll to the bottom of this post. In a nationally televised address attempting to quell growing public dissent by explaining his administration’s failed efforts at negotiating “peace” with North Vietnam, LBJ shocked the world by announcing he would not run for reelection in November, 1968. […]

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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-xvii-lbj-out-nixon-in/feed/ 0 1041 The Vietnam War Revisited- Part XV – No Way Out https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-xv-no-way-out/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-xv-no-way-out/#comments Sun, 03 Nov 2019 15:30:31 +0000 http://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=1046 Previous blogs discussed LBJ’s failed efforts to get the North Vietnamese to capitulate following Operation Rolling Thunder’s graduated bombing of targets in North Vietnam. Why did they fail?  Our 7th Air Force pilots flying Wild Weasel missions quickly noted many vital targets were off-limits. They complained to command they were bombing the wrong targets, nonessential […]

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