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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…

"Yet the infirmities of man are such that force must often precede reason, and the waste of war the works of peace.

—Lyndon Johnson

It was a flying fortnight, the likes of which the world had never seen, mingling mystery and flamboyance,…

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…

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…

"(See Cover) Even if the television tube and a ubiquitous Texan had yet to be conceived, the President of the U.S. in the latter third of the 20th century would almost certainly be the world's most exhaustively scrutinized, analyzed and criticized…

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…

Presenting that there are mixed feelings about Johnson.

On the cover is Johnson, and on the cover it is written, "War and the Great Society How the People Feel About Johnson"

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They don't all love him. An Asheville, N.C.,…

"LYNDON JOHNSON'S renunciation of a second term as President dumfounded all but a score of relatives and top aides, who suspected that it might be coming. It was not included in the advance text of his bombing-pause speech. Only an hour before he…

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,…

On the cover is General Vo Nguyen Giap

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Strike to win, strike only when success is certain;

if it is not, then don't strike.

—General Vo Nguyen Giap

The tangled jungle scrub of Cu Chi lies only 20 miles northwest of Saigon.…