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The World Beyond BetterMost => Anything Goes => Topic started by: Kelda on June 18, 2009, 07:44:41 am
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This is really interesting…
Audio slideshow: Paralysis of a President
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8105841.stm
By the end of his presidency in 1968, Lyndon Johnson - the man thrust into the Oval Office after the murder of John F Kennedy - was troubled in his sleep by nightmares in which he felt paralysed.
At the time, US troops were making little progress in Vietnam and the anti-war movement at home was growing. Then two prominent figures - the civil rights leader Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy - were shot dead.
Here, Professor of International History David Reynolds - from the BBC Radio 4 series America, Empire of Liberty - looks at President Johnson's last days in the White House.