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S1 Ep 3 LBJ's War - The Carrot and the Stick
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18 minutes
Released:
Sep 5, 2017
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Podcast episode
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By the spring of 1965, pressure is building on President Johnson to make his case for the war to the American electorate. He resists, preferring to manage the conflict without public scrutiny, but finally agrees to go public, in a speech at Johns Hopkins University. The strategy behind the speech: a little something for everybody. A look at how that strategy works out, and what it reveals about LBJ's congenital bias for secrecy.
Released:
Sep 5, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (24)
1 - The Churchill of Asia: “They started with me on Diem,” LBJ told an old friend, “that he was corrupt, and he ought to be killed. So, we killed him.” Not quite true, it turns out, but the brutal assassination of South Vietnam’s... by Nixon at War