"Though it may be denied, President Johnson is considering the painful possibility that he may have to send guerilla-trained U.S troops into the South Vietnamese jungle to help beat back the VietCong guerrillas…running the risk of another…
On April 22, 1971, two years after Johnson’s presidency and still four years before the United States would end involvement in Vietnam, Senator John Kerry testified before the Senate against the war. Kerry spoke as Veteran who served in Vietnam,…
Johnson requests (and two days later receives) Congressional approval for taking whichever actions he sees fit in order to thwart North Vietnamese Aggression.
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…
"(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…