Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War
by
Brian VanDeMark
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1995
In November of 1964, as Lyndon Johnson celebrated his landslide victory over Barry Goldwater, the government of South Vietnam lay in a shambles. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor described it as a country beset by "chronic factionalism, civilian-military suspicion and distrust, absence of national spirit...