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Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. It was just a year ago you stepped up for vietnam. There seems to be discouragement about the progress. Can you give us your assessment . We are putting in a major effort in vietnam. As you know, we have ten or 11 times as many advisors in there as we had a year ago. So we dont see the end of the tunnel, but i must say i dont think its darker than a year ago, in some ways lighter. Early on, kennedy made a command decision, we will not allow South Vietnam to fall to the communists. In southeast, asia, communists inspired subversion was unrelenting. South vietnam looked to others for stemming vietnamese aggression. Going back to the Eisenhower Administration in the 50s, the country split into south and north vietnam. You have communists in the north so the ....
President johnson received that report today. What the public understood and what i understood is these were very honorable men. They thought the commission had done a good job, and they would come up with an answer. When the Warren Commission report came out, i believed it. We were still in a time when you tended to believe what officials told you. It is now 15 seconds after 6 30 p. M. Eastern daylight time, sunday, september the 27th. As of this moment, the report of the president s commission is public record. For the next half hour, we will search it for answers. First must come the answers to the two great overriding questions. Who killed john f. Kennedy . The commission answered unequivocally Lee Harvey Oswald. Was oswald acting alone or was he a member of a conspiracy . The commission answers he acted alone. We knew most people were not going to read all of the < ....
Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. Mr. President , it was just a year ago you ordered stepped up aid to vietnam. There seems to be a good deal of discouragement about the progress. Can you give us your assessment . We are putting in a major effort in vietnam. As you know we have 10 or 11 times as many advisers in there as we had a year ago. So we dont see the end of the tunnel, but i must say i dont think its darker than a year ago, in someways lighter. Early on, kennedy made a command decision, we will not allow South Vietnam to fall to the communists. In southeast, asia, communistinspired subversion was unrelenting. South vietnam looked to others for assistance in stemming North Vietnamese aggression. Going back to the Eisenhower Adminis ....
Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. It was just a year ago you stepped up for vietnam. There seems to be discouragement about the progress. Can you give us your assessment . We are putting in a major effort in vietnam. As you know, we have ten or 11 times as many advisors in there as we had a year ago. So we dont see the end of the tunnel, but i must say i dont think its darker than a year ago, in someways lighter. Early on, kennedy made a command decision, we will not allow South Vietnam to fall to the communists. In Southeast Asia, communists inspired submersion was unrelenting. South vietnam looked to others for stemming vietnamese aggression. Going back to the Eisenhower Administration in the 50s, the country split into south and < ....