WASHINGTON -- On Election Day 1964, on the brink of one of the biggest presidential landslides ever, Lyndon Johnson lay in bed at 5 p.m., nursing a headache and sore hip -- and sorting out his conflicted thoughts about whether to escalate U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.U.S. ...
Johnson, then President, desperately needed to cut expenditures to pay for the escalating Vietnam War. So he proposed to the leaders of the Soviet Union that they agree to a treaty, which became the 1967 Outer