The deadly bet : LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 election /
Walter LaFeber.
- 1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations.
- Vietnam. America in the war years .
- Vietnam--America in the war years (Unnumbered) .
Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-206) and index.
General William Westmoreland : the Tet offensive -- Senator Eugene McCarthy : the college student crusade -- Lyndon Johnson : "people grow tired of confusion" -- Martin Luther King : the dream -- Robert Kennedy : the "national soul" -- Richard Nixon : the candidate from Squaresville? -- Hubert Horatio Humphrey : the isolation of the politics of joy -- George Wallace : the populism of the Vietnam war era -- Nguyen Van Thieu : a merry-go-round in a chamber of horrors.
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Johnson, Lyndon B. 1908-1973.
Presidents--Election--United States--1968. Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.
United States--Politics and government--1963-1969.