Lyndon Johnson/Presidency
 LBJ insists upon being sworn in just hours after the JFK assassination. | |
| Date | November 22, 1963 - January 20, 1969 |
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| Description | The administration of president Lyndon B. Johnson |
Lyndon B. Johnson's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963, upon the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969.
The person Lyndon B. Johnson
For the person Lyndon B. Johnson and his activities and career before and after the presidency, see:
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JFK Assassination
- Full article: John F. Kennedy/Assassination
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The 36th President of the United States (1963–1969), Lyndon Johnson is generally reckoned to have been the deeply involved with the JFK Assassination, and was named as such by the deathbed confession of CIA agent E. Howard Hunt.
Vietnam War
- Full article: Vietnam War
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LBJ stoked war fever by characterizing North Vietnam’s attacks on the Maddox – and the later attack on the Maddox and the Turner Joy – as "unprovoked aggression." A very different picture is revealed by a phone conversation he had on August 3 with his Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, which the latter secretly recorded:
"OK. Here’s what we did. We [were] within their 12-mile limit, and that’s a matter that hasn’t been settled. But there have been some covert operations in that area that we have been carrying on – blowing up some bridges and things of that kind, roads, and so forth. So I imagine they wanted to put a stop to it. So they come out there and fire and we respond immediately with five-inch guns from the destroyer and with planes overhead. And we cripple them up – knock one of them out and cripple the other two. And then we go right back where we were with that destroyer [the Maddox], and with another one [the Turner Joy], plus plenty of planes standing by. And that’s where we are now."
LBJ - 1964-08-03[1]
William Pepper quotes Colonel John Downey, LBJ's briefing officer during the Vietnam War as stating that LBJ stated that he couldn't stop the war in Vietnam because "my friends are making too much money".[2]
