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When former president Lyndon B. Johnson opened the LBJ Presidential Library in May 1971, he proclaimed, Its all here, the story of our timewith the bark off. Accordingly, he wanted his library to reflect not only the triumphs of his administration, but the failures, tooand he wanted us to learn from them to build a better future for our country. In keeping with President Johnsons vision, the LBJ Library took a substantive, unvarnished look at the Vietnam War, with the goal to shed new light on the war and the lessons it provides. The passage of years offers greater perspective on the complexities of a war that altered not only our history but our perception of ourselves as a nation. The result was the Vietnam War Summit, an intensive three-day conference in April 2016 that brought together policy makers, scholars, reporters, photographers, musicians, and importantly, those who were on the front lines of the war and the antiwar movement. In conjunction with the conference, the library displayed a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Twice each day during the summit, ceremonies recognized Vietnam War veterans. A War Remembered fe

Author

Mark K Updegrove; Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Publisher

Austin: The Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780988508385

Subjects

History, Humanities