Vietnam is widely considered Lyndon Johnsons tragedy, failure, betrayal, depending on your position on the political spectrum. There are two books in print, both entitled Lyndon Johnsons war and both advancing compelling, if sometimes contradictory analysis of the reasons why the series of decisions made between 1964 and 1968 that led to the official justification for escalating the vietnam war, of incidents of august 1964, the first landing of u. S. Combat troops to defend the base in march of 1965, the stepped up escalation of American Forces in country over the next few years until the total was greater than half a million men, change from a military strategy of base security to enclave strategy to what was finally and unfortunately if accurately titled, search and destroy. The shock and humiliation of the 1968 tet offensive and johnsons decision to turn down a request by general william moreland, commander in vietnam, for 200,000 more troops and johnsons decision to withdraw from t
Goal personally . Guest well, im not quite sure. I know that im working on a second volume of this, and id like to continue observing and writing about american politics cspan do you ever want to run for an office . Guest i dont rule out any option. Cspan did you learn that from Richard Nixon . Guest i did, indeed. Cspan if you ran for an office, what kind of an office, of all the ones youve seen, appeal to you . Guest i think an executive position, perhaps governor. Cspan heres what the book looks like. Its called nixon off the record, and our guest has been its author, monica crowley. Thank you very much. Guest thank you very much. 80 degrees, big crowds here on the campus dade this is about ten minutes. Autho joining us here on the sety. Is another author we want to introduce you to. This is bryan latell. Co herself heres his book. Roun. If you will start gi giving us r your background. Ounciln particularly your cia background. I worked at cia and nationalp intelligence counsel inac
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The project will include the installation of a new concrete box culvert under Highway 180 and is scheduled to be substantially complete by July 1 to help mitigate flooding before