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President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

— William Westmoreland

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok,…

— J. William Fulbright

“The significance of LBJ's personal traits accounted for the growing belief, especially by anti-war activists, that Vietnam was "Johnson's War." His critics are correct…

— James T. Patterson

Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.'s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the U.S. presence…

— Robert Dallek

The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president,…

— Eric Alterman

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president,…

— Eric Alterman

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his…

— Stephen Ambrose

He (former President Gerald Ford) made it very clear that he did not agree with the reasons President Bush laid out for the war,…

— Bob Woodward

“He [Lyndon Baines Johnson]turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a…

— Herbert Mitgang

He [Lyndon Johnson] hated the war. He hated having anybody put in harm away. But he believed that what we were doing is what…

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do…

— Bill Ayers

Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith