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Time June 25 1965 Bundy.jpg
On the cover is McGeorge Bundy, United States National Security Advisor to Kennedy and Johnson

1965, Positive sentiment towards Bundy and the war.

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Seated around the massive mahogany table in the Cabinet Room of the White House,…

Time April 23 1965 R Risner.jpg
On the Cover is Robbie Risner, Air Force Pilot

April 1965, focus of story is on the fighting but not yet condemning Johnson.


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Streaking in like vengeful lightning bolts, the F-105 Thunderchiefs loosed their bombs, rockets and…

Time Feb 19 1965.jpg
On the cover is General Westmoreland

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To the members of the National Security Council, seated around the coffin-shaped table in the Cabinet Room of the White House, the President of the U.S. said with quiet anger: "I've gone far…

Time LBJ Jan 1 1965 Man of YR.jpg
Johnson named Man of the Year in 1965. In 1965 men were being drafted into Vietnam, and the Tonkin Resolution was in place.

"MAN OF THE YEAR

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There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame…

Time August 14 1964 Tonkin.jpg
On the cover is Admiral Sharp Jr.

"(See Cover) The Gulf of Tonkin is a forbidding body of water. Along its shores lie the brutal war in South Viet Nam, the belligerent Red regime of North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh, the ominous expanse of Communist…

TIme LBJ May 1 1964.jpg
Support for Johnson in 1964.

Keep the right man in the right job;

He's the right man for ev'ry one;

He's the man to get things done.

So join the U.S.A.'s tomorrow,

Go with L.B.J. today,

'Cause Johnson is setting the…

Time LBJ Nov 29 1963.jpg
In the wake of Kennedy's assassination, the public supports Johnson as the new president.

"Over Nob Hill and the Harvard Yard, across Washington's broad avenues and Pittsburgh's thrusting chimneys, in a thousand towns and villages the bells began…

Majority of American public does not believe that the war in Vietnam was a "mistake" until 1968.

Johnson requests (and two days later receives) Congressional approval for taking whichever actions he sees fit in order to thwart North Vietnamese Aggression.

President Johnson phone conversation with Senator Russell, expressing disdain yet obligation for staying in Vietnam.
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