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To: FlatTaxMan who wrote (134)	7/24/1999 8:19:00 PM
From: truedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542

to: FlatTaxMan from: truedog If you want to lambast LBJ, be my guest. He did add on to the escalation started by JFK to a ridiculous degree but, he was one of yours. JFK selected him as his vice-president. He was a democrat with the same liberal leanings as yourself. So, go ahead and shoot yourself in the foot. I lived in Nevada when Bo Gritz was spouting his garbage about what a hero he was. He may have been decorated and was a good soldier when in the war but, after a while back home, he came unglued and lost all sense of reason. If the Marlon Brando role was patterned after Bo, Bo should hang his head in shame.

To: FlatTaxMan who wrote (134)	7/24/1999 9:22:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542

The decision to escalate the war was already made before Kennedy died. Their view was that there was no other way to keep the South Vietnamese regimes (of which there were a succession of progressively weaker governments) from completely collapsing. (IMO, both the Republicans and the Democrats would've escalated the war. - that was a major campaign issue in 1964.) odci.gov As for the escalation of bombing, Johnson and Nixon were trying to negotiate to a similar stalemate position as in South Korea. As with Korea, there was fear that the Chinese and also the Russians would enter into the war which limited U.S. options.