Vietnam War
Vietnam War
As the Vice President to John F. Kennedy, London B. Johnson had different views then him. In the Democratic election LbJ actually lost to President Kennedy. The two had their disagreements like the Vietnam war. Kennedy was wanting to get out while Johnson and the rest of the government were wanting the war. President John F. Kennedy was so “worried for the country” about the prospect that Vice President Lyndon Johnson might succeed him as president that he’d begun having private conversations about who should become the Democratic Party’s standard bearer in 1968. Johnson served more than six years as president, filling out Kennedy’s tear and then getting elected in his own right in 1964. While his White House years were largely defined by the escalation on the Vietnam War, he was able to pass landmark civil rights legislation that had been started and then stalled under Kennedy. Lyndon Johnson also felt as though President Kennedy was too soft on communism and that something needed to change.
The Soviet Union even believed that LBJ was behind the assassination due to the fact that there were claims that a soviet spy had evidence that the Vice President was behind it. The claim was part of a memo that is now in the JFK archive. “Our sources added that in instructions from Moscow, it was indicated that ‘now’ the KGB was in possession of data purporting to indicate President Johnson was responsible for the assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy,” one part of the document reads, citing intelligence from 1965. It is hard to say whether the government was behind the killing of President Kennedy but I would say there are some reason why they would want to.
- Jarett Goss
Work Cited:
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/27/soviets-thought-lbj-behind-kennedy-assassination-document/23258104/
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2003/05/the_war_room.html
As the Vice President to John F. Kennedy, London B. Johnson had different views then him. In the Democratic election LbJ actually lost to President Kennedy. The two had their disagreements like the Vietnam war. Kennedy was wanting to get out while Johnson and the rest of the government were wanting the war. President John F. Kennedy was so “worried for the country” about the prospect that Vice President Lyndon Johnson might succeed him as president that he’d begun having private conversations about who should become the Democratic Party’s standard bearer in 1968. Johnson served more than six years as president, filling out Kennedy’s tear and then getting elected in his own right in 1964. While his White House years were largely defined by the escalation on the Vietnam War, he was able to pass landmark civil rights legislation that had been started and then stalled under Kennedy. Lyndon Johnson also felt as though President Kennedy was too soft on communism and that something needed to change.
The Soviet Union even believed that LBJ was behind the assassination due to the fact that there were claims that a soviet spy had evidence that the Vice President was behind it. The claim was part of a memo that is now in the JFK archive. “Our sources added that in instructions from Moscow, it was indicated that ‘now’ the KGB was in possession of data purporting to indicate President Johnson was responsible for the assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy,” one part of the document reads, citing intelligence from 1965. It is hard to say whether the government was behind the killing of President Kennedy but I would say there are some reason why they would want to.
- Jarett Goss
Work Cited:
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/27/soviets-thought-lbj-behind-kennedy-assassination-document/23258104/
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2003/05/the_war_room.html
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