"I will tell you the more I just stayed awake last night thinking about this thing, the more I think of it, I don't know what in the hell it looks to me like we're getting into another Korea [...] I don't think it's worth fighting for and I don't think we can get out. And it's just the biggest damned mess that I ever saw."
Bill Moyers on his PBS program presents recordings of Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and 1965 as the president decided to increase the American involvement in Vietnam.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
"We Still Seek No Wider War"
Labels:
1960s,
Cold War,
diplomatic history,
LBJ,
military history,
political history,
Vietnam War
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