
Vietnam Revisited: Conversation With Mark Moyar
The Victor Davis Hanson Show
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Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War
Johnson was looking at his second full term excuse me and Truman's it would be his first full term and Johnson has finished his first term. In that process he announces the bombing hall and he's being pressured by his Kennedy people I think Kissinger said once the people who got Johnson in turned out to be the real peacenix but McNamara. By 1967 we hear him expressing some regrets about this because you know people have been telling him he finally understands that the president is not out there explaining the war to the peopleYou can't really maintain national support so he comes a little bit more open to cheerleading although he tends to have others still do it. During 68 he and Clark Clifford will clash
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