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Vietnam, against the communists. [explosions] charles the explosion of events has given the ring of anachronism and agent history to those words four years ago of john f. Kennedy. These are u. S. Soldiers, fighting on vietnams front lines. They are giving their lives, they are not just giving their advice. Doing to a degree never foreseen by kennedy, we hold the destiny of vietnam in our hands, and it holds hours. 500,000 american troops, 14,000 american dead, 50 billion american dollars later, ...

Lbj had lost 47 seats in the house, this was a significant setback. The war was damaging lbjs political popularity. You can see a decline across 1967. On a more fundamental level, what you see leading into 1968 as the breakup of that coalition int lbj had depended on 1964. By 1967, as lbj looks forward in 1968, he can see that was a thing of the past and the coalition he had cobbled together was fracturing. Here on American History tv, we are focusing on the war in vietnam. For the next hour and...

Thing 22 different times. In high school when you have to be in class eight hours a day and you want to be in a sport and you get home at 8 00 and you terry the democrats would have been elected. Kent state would not have happened. Ellsberg would i have faced 105 years in jail. A whole lot of other history would be different if this war had been stopped, not to mention the thousands and millions of lives that were killed after 1967. It is a shame 14,000 u. S. Ondiers died in 1967, when 58,000. W...

Amount of political difficulty. In the 19 six progress in elections, the democrats had not , butcontrol over congress lbj had lost 47 seats in the house, this was a significant setback. The war was damaging lbjs political popularity. You can see a decline across 1967. On a more fundamental level, what you see leading into 1968 as the breakup of that coalition int lbj had depended on 1964. By 1967, as lbj looks forward in 1968, he can see that was a thing of the past and the coalition he had cobb...

When we get to the question and answer part of the talk, if you have a question, which we highly encourage, please check up to the microphone. We cspan book tv with us and would like to pick up your question on the recording. Also, after the talk sharon will be happy to talk and sign books. The line will start to the right of the podium. As you get up, if you could please hold up your chair and set it to one of the sides against the bookshelf, thats a big help for us. The imagine years of work b...

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Tom brokaw with a reunion all these years later. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. President trump and the white house are speaking out about two controversial World Leaders today in ways that are surprising some. The president is not ruling out applying his negotiating skills in a sunday facetoface meeting with north Koreas Kim Jongun and standing by his invitation for the philippines p...

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But for now were glad to be undercroft auditorium to discuss this book fdr goes to war. A long time ago, i went to Mayfield High School in mayfield, kentucky, and in my senior year i was the coeditor of the high school newspaper, the cardinal, and i think the features editor that year was my classmate anita prince, and she has gone on to bigger things. She got married for one thing to burt folsom. She got two degrees. She worked for president reagan and she was the president elector and most rec...