Few presidents have a darker mark on their resume that LBJ's handling of the Vietnam war. Though overwhelmingly popular at first, the war divided the nation and broke Johnson's political power just 4 years later. How did the United States get into Vietnam? Why didn't LBJ see what the American people saw as public opinion turned against it? And what can we learn from Johnson's handling of the war in Vietnam? Mark Lawrence, director of the LBJ Presidential Library & Museum in Austin and a...

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36.A) LBJ & Vietnam, an interview with Mark Lawrence

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33.B) Truman and the Bomb, an interview with D.M. Giangreco

33.C) Truman and the Pendergast Machine, an interview with Jon Taylor

33.D) The blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the awakening of Harry S. Truman, an interview with Judge Richard Gergel

34.) Dwight Eisenhower 1953-1961

34.A) Ike v McCarthyism, an interview with Larry Tye

34.B) Ike & the Suez Crisis, an interview with Jim Newton

34.C) Isolationism v internationalism, Ike & the election of 1952, an interview with Chris Nichols

34.C) Ike, the Last General, an interview with Bryan Gibby

35.) John F. Kennedy 1961-1963

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35.B) Joe Kennedy Sr., The Patriarch, an interview with David Nasaw

35.C) JFK & The Press, an interview with Harold Holzer

36.) Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963-1969

36.A) LBJ & Vietnam, an interview with Mark Lawrence

36.B) LBJ's Great Society, an interview with Mark Updegrove

16.F.) How Lincoln changed American immigration, an interview with Harold Holzer

37.) Richard Nixon 1969-1974

37.A) Nixon's Domestic Agenda, an interview with Luke Nichter

37.B) The campaigns of Richard Nixon, an interview with John Farrell

38.) Gerald Ford 1974-1977

38.A) Gerald Ford in the Maelstrom, an interview with Brooke Clement

37.C) Nixon v The Supreme Court, an interview with Michael Bobelian

39.) Jimmy Carter 1977-1981

39.A) Jimmy Carter, the outsider, an interview with Jonathan Alter

BONUS! The Hail Mary Effect in Presidential Politics, an interview with William Silber

39.B) Jimmy Carter, Stagflation, & Paul Volcker, an interview with Jennifer Burns

40.) Ronald Reagan 1981-1989

2.A) John Adams and the modern presidency, an interview with Lindsay Chervinsky

38.B) The History of the Pardon, an interview with Kimberly Wehle

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