Thank you for posting this. All the way with LBJ

Spoken like a man with no sons.

35:35 Thank May Craig for asking that question.

Fifty years ago today on this date, July 28, 1965...one of the most ill fated decisions of the LBJ administration, to send our boys to do battle in Vietnam!

Increases the draft to 35,000 a month @ 9:08

Imagine you are 18 and you get a draft notice in the mail and you think "What the hell is Vietnam?"

NICE 8:29 "I have asked the Commanding General, General Westmoreland,2 what more he needs to meet this mounting aggression. He has told me. We will meet his needs, I have today ordered to Viet-Nam the Air Mobile Division and certain other forces which will raise our fighting strength from 75,000 to 125,000 men almost immediately. Additional forces will be needed later, and they will be sent as requested."

This was a disaster, but who knew? most of the congress and the people thought it was a good idea....who could have imagined that a third world country peasants would beat the greatest military power the world has ever seen....

LBJ, instead of making these comments you did on this date July 28, 1965, I wish you would have announced the words you did on March 31, 1968..."Tonight I want to speak to you tonight about peace in Vietnam"...by indicating you have ordered a full withdrawl of American troops and personnel effective immediately. Look at all the lives that would have been saved, the money that would have saved, the devestation that would not have been created. Just saying.....

@rayjr62

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed. But then again...have you ever met a Texan that didn't like to fight? I haven't.

Nancy Dickerson was the 1960s version of a Fox News correspondent. What a suck-up question about the Presidency being the "loneliest" office. Good Lord! If LBJ ever felt lonely, he'd telephone some hapless Cabinet secretary or staff member at 4 in the morning just to have them converse with "yore President".