Conversation Details
Long before President Johnson sent the first American ground troops to Vietnam, one of the senators whose judgment he valued most, Richard B. "Dick" Russell Jr. [D–Georgia], expressed doubts about that nation's strategic importance to the United States.
Date:
June 11, 1964
Topic:
Escalation
Location
Oval Office
Conversation
WH6406-05-3680-3681
Conversation Participants
Presidential Daily Diary Excerpt
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