Boy Quote by Rick Perlstein

Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek the presidency…

— 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

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 happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night [in office].…

— Harry Shearer

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.

— Bob Gunton

Anyway, in 1966, Daddy had started to attack Lyndon Johnson on the war in Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson was a good man. Even though he…

— Martin Luther King III

I think with Lyndon Johnson, the most important thing I learned was that he never had the sense of security that comes from inside.…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“My dad once told me that his biggest challenge after returning from Vietnam had been coming to terms with his own callousness. He’d made…

— Tucker Elliot

“Lydon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family…

— Nancy Gibbs

I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the…

— Lew Wasserman

“Wallowing in nostalgia for a lost Golden Age ruined by meddling liberal outsiders from Washington and New York, previously a white Southern habit, became…

— Kurt Andersen

The eight years of war since 9/11 had meant several Christmases away from home for most of these men. For soldiers at war, there's…

— Stanley A. McChrystal