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In twenty two pages this paper considers the U.S. media’s attitudes about President Lyndon B. Johnson and his administration amidst LBJ’s claim that he was treated unfairly with the effects of the Vietnam War, most notably the Tet Offensive, and the Pueblo situation along with the President’s extreme sensitivity regarding coverage of the war are the primary focus. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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1963. Johnson had the delicate task of steadying a shocked and grief-stricken nation. It was up to this experienced politician who had spent years as Washingtons powerful Senate
majority leader to provide stability on the home front and to also serve as the chief architect of his predecessors unfinished legacy particularly with regard to civil rights and poverty
issues. However, his presidency would not be remembered for The Great Society he envisioned as a continuation of Franklin D. Roosevelts revolutionary New Deal. Instead, it would be
defined by a conflict in Southeast Asia that it is unlikely Johnson even had much knowledge about before taking office. The
group of advisers President Dwight Eisenhower sent to Vietnam during the final days of his Administration grew to 10,000 token troops authorized by President Kennedy to provide stability following the
September 1963 death of South Vietnamese President Diem. JFK was still telling the American public in the fall of 1963 that this was the people of South Vietnams war
with Ho Chi Minhs Communist North Vietnam. Perhaps the President was trying to reassure himself this would not become Uncle Sams war because he already knew that once a
troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to become mired in an ideological conflict that would come to represent the Cold
War and its global implications. While there are those Kennedy loyalists who insist the President intended to completely withdraw all U.S. military from Southeast Asia in early 1964, when
he left for the Dallas motorcade tour from which he never returned, the troops were still there. It would be up to LBJ to deal with this increasingly untenable
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