The US couldn't declare a war in Vietnam, that would've implied total war. Total war meant deploying atomic weapons...that would've caused WWIII. The whole purpose of the cold war was to avoid an atomic war...Vietnam was a fuse that could have led to an atomic explosion...a fuse that world leaders wanted to ensure didn't detonate.
Johnson asked for a widening of the war and air strikes against North Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
Yes, President Johnson did eventually ask for and receive a declaration of war against the country of North Vietnam. The Vietnam Was started in 1956 and ended in 1975.
Andrew Johnson was the President when Andrew Johnson was. Andrew Johnson was the Vice President for Abraham Lincoln's short second term, ended by Lincoln's assassination.
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It depends on which President Johnson you are talking about. President Andrew Johnson (#17) started Reconstruction of the South almost immediately upon taking office. President Lyndon B. Johnson (#36) started the Warren Commission which was an investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy.
How long was Johnson president
President Johnson (LBJ).
Nebraska became at state in 1967 while Johnson was President. (He also completed the purchase of Alaska, adding it to US territory to eventually become a state.)
He went home to Tennessee was active in politics and eventually was elected US senator, the only ex-president to be so chosen.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Johnson was vice-president under Lincoln. After Lincoln was killed, Johnson became president.
Andrew Johnson was president from 1865 to 1869. Lyndon B Johnson was president from 1963 to 1969.
Richard M. Johnson was the Vice President to Martin Van Buren.Andrew Johnson was the Vice President to Abraham Lincoln.Lyndon Baines Johnson was the Vice President to John F. Kennedy.
Before Johnson was Abraham Lincoln. Johnson was Lincoln's vice-president.
Johnson was never nominated for President. He became president because he was the vice-president when Lincoln died. He became a candidate for vice-president at the request of Lincoln. He received votes in the early ballots at the Democratic Convention in 1868 trailing George Pendlelton and Winfield Hancock but Horatio Seymour eventually won the nomination.Andrew Johnson didn't run for President.
Lyndon Johnson was Vice President to President John F. Kennedy. Johnson became president following Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
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He earned his living as a tailor for many years. He began as an apprentice but eventually ran his own shop.