PRESIDENTS OF WAR: Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Vietnam War

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:  HOW DID LBJ WITHSTAND THE PRESSURES OF THE VIETNAM WAR?

Objectives:  SWBAT analyze, evaluate, source and annotate excerpted primary and secondary source complex text, videos, articles toward conceptualization and argumentation skill building for the AP American History exam.

Citations:

Beschloss, Michael (2018) Presidents of War:  The Epic Story From 1809 to Modern Times.  New York:  Crown Publishing (Pgs. 492-586)

Video #1 – Michael Beschloss Chronicles American ‘Presidents of War’ –

October 16, 2018 (7:16 mins.)

https://youtu.be/ndJp1yNziqU

Video #2 – Johnson in Vietnam (1:59 mins)

https://youtu.be/1J8m8tULdaY

Video #3 – Rachel Maddow’s Betrayal:  The Plot That Won The White House (44:13 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl-8fQ1-oV8

Image Citations:

LBJ Over Desk

http://www.lbjlibrary.org/mediakits/vietnamwar/p.13.html

LBJ Tapes

https://goo.gl/images/nx6La9

LBJ Visits Cam Ranh Bay

https://goo.gl/images/xmzAuf

Newspaper Articles:

The Second Half of Watergate was Bigger, Worse and Forgotten By the Public

https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/the-second-half-of-watergate-was-bigger-worse-and-for-forgotten-the-public

What the Watergate Road Map Reveals About Improper Contact Between the White House and the Justice Department

https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-watergate-road-map-reveals-about-improper-contact-between-white-house-and-justice-department