Audio | Vietnam War Media Kit
Below are various telephone conversations of President Johnson discussing the Vietnam War. All are public domain.
May 27, 1964: President Johnson expresses anguish over the Vietnam War to his National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy.
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May 27, 1964: President Johnson and Sen. Richard Russell (also Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services) speak about current situation in Vietnam. (Part 1)
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May 27, 1964: President Johnson and Sen. Richard Russell (also Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services) speak about current situation in Vietnam. (Part 2)
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Sept. 18, 1964: Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara gives President Johnson a report and recommendations on the Gulf of Tonkin attack.
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Feb. 15, 1965: President Johnson calls former President Harry Truman asking for advice on war strategy.
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May 28, 1965: Senator Robert F. Kennedy discusses Vietnam War strategy with President Johnson.
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July 2, 1965: President Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara discuss troop increases in Vietnam.
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July 5, 1966: Civil rights leader Whitney Young asks President Johnson to clear his visit to Vietnam in order to visit African American troops.
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Oct. 3, 1966: President Johnson speaks with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower regarding strategy in Vietnam.
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Dec. 4, 1966: President Johnson speaks with author John Steinbeck whose son is fighting in Vietnam.
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Oct. 16, 1968: President Johnson briefs presidential candidates—Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon, and George Wallace—on the Vietnam bombing halt and asks them not to impair peace negotiations.
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Nov. 2, 1968: President Johnson asks Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen to talk to Richard Nixon. Johnson says Nixon's representatives have sent word to North Vietnam to hold off on peace talks.
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