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S1 Ep 4 LBJ's War - Parting the Curtains
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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Sep 12, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
For fifteen months, LBJ kept the country largely in the dark about the Vietnam War. Then, in February ’66, the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and its chairman William Fulbright, administered a strong dose of sunlight.
Released:
Sep 12, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (24)
3 - The Carrot and the Stick: By the spring of 1965, pressure is building on President Johnson to make his case for the war to the American electorate. He resists, preferring to manage the conflict without public scrutiny, but finally agrees to go public,... by Nixon at War