The Titans, Story Behind The Movies, Chapter 8

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" background="../../backgrounds/tyranny_back.gif"> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" width="70"><img src="http://www.click2flicks.com/../buttons/space.gif" width="70" height="70"> </td> <td align="center" valign="top"><a href="../../index2.html" onmouseover="turnOn('image2')" onmouseout="turnOff('image2')"><img src="http://www.click2flicks.com/../buttons/directory_off.gif" name="image2" border="0" hspace="10" align="top" width="130" height="22"></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"><img src="http://www.click2flicks.com/../backgrounds/movies_side.gif" width="17" height="442"> </td> <td> <p align="center"><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color="#006068">"REMEMBER THE TITANS"</font></b><br><br> <b><font color="#006068" size="4" face="arial, helvetica">CHAPTER 6 - LBJ LEAVES THE WHITE HOUSE</font></b> <p align="center"> <center> <table width="520"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <font color="000000" size="3" face="arial, helvetica">Protes</font><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">ts against the war increased as more young men were "drafted" into the Army. "The Draft" was both feared and hated. Who would be called up next? Or, as many people thought at the time, who would end up in the next batch of body bags? After the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, both American and <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/36/31/36-3005a.gif" target="_blank"> <b> Vietnamese casualties</b></a> increased dramatically. So did American knowledge of <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~buschert/PHL385S/adams.html" target="_blank"> <b> murders</b></a> being committed in Vietnam. <p>In 1966, Bobby Kennedy was expressing his own views on the war. (This link takes you to an interesting two-page <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/40/15/40-1441a.jpg" target="_blank"> <b> Press Release</b></a> from Senator Kennedy on the <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/40/15/40-1442a.jpg" target="_blank"> <b> status</b></a> of the war in 1966.) By 1968, he wanted America to get out of Vietnam. <p>Tensions in the country continued to mount. LBJ decided he <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/29/28/29-2707a.gif" target="_blank"> <b> could not seek</b></a> another term as America's leader. He wanted to work full time to get Americans out of Southeast Asia. Campaigning for office would have interfered with that objective. He planned to tell the country his decision on March 31, 1968. <p>In a <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/32/13/32-1280a.gif" target="_blank"> <b> live</b></a> televised speech, LBJ surprised the American people, and most of his supporters, with his decision. He had kept the news <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/32/13/32-1273a.gif" target="_blank"> <b> to himself</b></a> and a few trusted people. He even waited to release the teleprompter copy of his address until shortly before air time. The words he wanted to keep secret until he spoke them on the broadcast? <br> </font> <blockquote> <b><i> <font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3"> I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.<br> </font> </i></b> </blockquote> <font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3"> <p>The <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/32/13/32-1287a.gif" target="_blank"> <b> Presidential Daily Diary</b></a> reflects LBJ's great personal certainty and relief about his decision. But President Nixon, eager to take office, did not learn from LBJ's mistakes. Student unrest and protest movements would grow dramatically during Nixon's Administration.</p> </div> <p align="center"> <a href="http://www.lawbuzz.com/movies/remember_the_titans/the_titans_ch5.htm"><img src="http://www.click2flicks.com/../buttons/back.gif" alt="go back to previous page" border=0 hspace=5 width="129" height="22"></a><a href="the_titans_ch1.htm"><font size=2><b>GO TO STORY INDEX</b></font></a><font size=2><a href="http://www.lawbuzz.com/movies/remember_the_titans/the_titans_ch7.htm"><img src="http://www.click2flicks.com/../buttons/goto.gif" alt=continue to next chapter of story" border=o hspace=5 align=bottom width="144" height="22"></a></font></p> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </body>