Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 6 P6 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 38 JOHNSON REVERDY The Constitution . ANNOUNCES A GREAT PRINCIPLE OF American liberty . that as between a man and his conscience as relates to his obligations to God it is not only tyrannical but unchristian to INTERFERE. Reverdy Johnson whom were subject to military conscription. As casualties mounted antiwar demonstrations increased and support in Congress decreased. The strategy of escalation did not produce the victory military leaders predicted. The cost of funding a war ended Johnson s Great Society initiatives. More important the Vietnam War became the focal point for the nation. Johnson s popularity plummeted and the nation was torn by conflict over the unpopular war. On March 31 1968 Johnson announced he would not seek reelection. He spent the remainder of his term attempting to convince the South and North Vietnamese to begin a peace process. By the end of his administration the paris peace talks were started which began a long negotiating process between North and South Vietnam. Johnson left office in January 1969 and returned to his ranch near Johnson City. There he wrote an account of his years in office The Vantage Point Perspectives of the Presidency 1971 . His health deteriorated. Johnson died of a heart attack at his ranch on January 22 1973 less than one week before the signing of the accords that ended the Vietnam War. FURTHER READINGS Cowger Thomas W. and Sherwin Markman eds. 2003. Lyndon Johnson Remembered An Intimate Portrait of a Presidency. Lanham MD Rowman Littlefield. Langston Thomas S. 2002. Lyndon Baines Johnson. Washington . CQ Press. Unger Irwin and Debi Unger. 1999. LBJ A Life. Indianapolis Wiley. CROSS REFERENCES Vietnam War Voting Rights Act Address Appendix Primary Document . V JOHNSON REVERDY Reverdy Johnson served as . attorney general from 1849 to 1850. Johnson also served in the . Senate and was an influential constitutional lawyer. He represented the defense in dred scott v. sandford 60 19 How. . 393 15 L. Ed. 691
