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Lyndon B. Johnson: Vietnam War
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During the next 4 years Johnson developed a wide network of political contacts in Washington, D.C. On Nov. 17, 1934, he married Claudia Alta Taylor, known as "Lady Bird." A warm, intelligent, ambitious woman, she was a great asset to Johnson's career. They had two daughters, Lynda Bird, born in 1944, and Luci Baines, born in 1947.
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As President, Johnson greatly expanded the federal government with his Great Society programs. He ... helped the civil rights movement win legislative victories and greatly expanded the American role in Vietnam (see Vietnam War). Although Johnson won the 1964 presidential election in a landslide over Republican Barry Goldwater, his popularity plunged as the death toll from the conflict in Vietnam steadily increased. In early 1968, faced with plummeting poll numbers and mounting public opposition to his foreign policy, Johnson announced that he would not seek, nor would be accept, his party's nomination for the presidency in 1968. It is widely thought that had he run he would have been trounced in the primaries and the general election, which was eventually won by Republican Richard M. Nixon.
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In foreign affairs, where risk and confrontation stretched a perilous tightrope throughout the Johnson years, the President made significant achievements. In the Western Hemisphere, at Punta del Este, Uruguay, the Latin American nations agreed to a common market for the continent. Normal relations with Panama were restored and a new canal treaty negotiated. In Cyprus, at the brink of war, the President's special emissaries knitted a settlement that staved off conflict. A rebellion in the Congo, which would have had ugly repercussions throughout the continent, was put down with American aid in the form of transport planes. In the Dominican Republic, an incipient Communist threat was challenged by an overwhelming show of American force, with Latin American allies.
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Johnson was maternally descended from a pioneer Baptist clergyman, George Washington Baines, who pastored some eight churches in Texas as well as others in Arkansas and Louisiana. Baines was ... the president of Baylor University, then in Independence, in Washington County during the American Civil War. George Baines was the grandfather of Johnson's mother, Rebekah Baines Johnson.
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Johnson ... had a pair of cowboy boots that he took with him wherever he would go from 1961 until his death. He even took the boots with him on a visit to South Vietnam in 1966. Just shows that you could never take the Texas upbringing out of Johnson.
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December 29, 1966 - Student-body presidents from 100 U.S. colleges and universities sign an open letter to President Lyndon B. Johnson expressing anxiety and doubt over U.S. involvement in Vietnam. They warned in the letter that many youths might prefer prison to participation in the war. Johnson did not respond to the letter.
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