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S1 Ep. 1 LBJ's War - The Churchill of Asia
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18 minutes
Released:
Sep 5, 2017
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Podcast episode
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“They started with me on Diem,” LBJ told an old friend, “that he was corrupt, and he ought to be killed. So, we killed him.” Not quite true, it turns out, but the brutal assassination of South Vietnam’s President Diem, just three weeks before JFK met the same fate in Dallas, would cast a long shadow over the Johnson presidency, and shape LBJ’s thinking on the war. 1963.
Released:
Sep 5, 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