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Lyndon B. Johnson's Responsibility In Vietnam
Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th president of the United States of America. LBJ got the chance to be president after the assaintation of John F. Kennedy. In the midst of his organization, his arrangement for Congress was to pass his "Unfathomable Society" programs, broad exercises on wellbeing and human administrations, preparing, safeguarding, urban restoration, et cetera. In any case, his inability to end the conflict in Vietnam cast a pallor on his term and provoked in all cases against war displays. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, in sending U.S. Marines shore-wards in March 1965, took after in a matter of seconds by U.S. Outfitted force ground battle units, broke the key congruity of American responsibility in Vietnam and, along these lines,

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