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truthsupplier
24-11-2009, 12:34 AM
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11202009/watch.html

Published on Monday, November 23, 2009 by Bill Moyers Journal

A Tale of Two Quagmires...

Bill Moyers considers a President's decision to escalate troop levels in a military conflict. Through LBJ's taped phone conversations and his own remembrances, Bill Moyers looks at Johnson's deliberations as he stepped up America's role in Vietnam.

eddieb
24-11-2009, 06:32 AM
I didn't bother listening to or reading the above. But I will say that Daniel Ellsberg states in his book," Secrets", that Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon were all told by their advisers that America could never win in Vietnam. Yet they all increased troop figures.