Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
History must only guess at the effect that television would have had during earlier conflicts over the future of the nation.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1908-1973, 36th President of the United States (Democrat, TX), Speech, National Association of Broadcasters, 1968
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At the time, there were few who saw the significance and many dismissed it as left wing intellectual paranoia. By the end it the 29th century it was the right wing which carried this mantra.
Halberstam and other journalists were criticized for sending images of the Vietnam War into the living rooms of America creating a negative public attitude about the Vietnam War.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, in office from 1963 to 1969. He served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 and assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson was also a United States representative and later majority leader in the United States Senate. Johnson is one of only four people to have served, at various times, in all four federal elected positions.
