To Johnson, the essence of leadership lay in building consensus among ... April 7, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered his first major speech on the war in Vietnam. Opposition to the ...

Zanuck, “Presidents at War” follows Congressman Lyndon Johnson on a white-knuckle ride ... Moreover, he suggests, “the stifling anti-Communist consensus” of those years discouraged ...

Credit: LBJ Library photo by Frank Wolfe Why were ... to do more for their country and its stated ideals. In 1961, Cold War politics still reigned supreme on the national and international stage ...