President Lyndon B. Johnson
In his view, their government had to perform this system of social and financial reform and improvement wanted to gain the support of the individuals, and their military had to do the preventing. The brand new containment policy focused on South Vietnam, the place, starting within the late 1950’s, the revolutionary Vietcong had been trying to overthrow a authorities that had American assist. By 1968, U. S. troop level was close to 500,000. The Vietcong and North Vietnamese, nevertheless, suddenly mounted a serious offensive early in 1968. It contradicted the administration’s optimism and enlarged the ranks of Johnson’s critics. The militant civil rights motion provided strain, and students and publicists alerted the general public to the existence of main problems in American society, poverty above all. In November, Humphrey lost to the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon, a result considered an expression of public disapproval of the Johnson administration. For the first yr after college, Johnson taught public talking and debate in a Houston high school, but politics drew him away from the classroom.
Born far from the centers of energy, he devoted his life to the art of politics and ultimately reached the most powerful place on the planet, the presidency. In 1960, nonetheless, though he had not turn out to be a militant liberal on civil rights, he had moved to a reasonable position. Frustrated in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960, Johnson settled for the vice presidency below John F. Kennedy and contributed significantly to the ticket’s victory that fall. To the shock of many and the dismay of some, Kennedy, after winning the nomination, requested Johnson to run for the vice presidency. Clearly, the vice presidency didn’t offer