Ibid, pp.12746. And that, he said, would only make him continue the war. It would mean that all of Vietnam would become communist. He was killed in 1963. He coupled that vision with rhetoric designed to highlight the administrations willingness to discuss, if not negotiate, aspects of the conflict in Southeast Asia. By 1967, the General Accounting Office had faulted the "Vietnam builders" -- as they were known -- for massive accounting lapses and allowing thefts of materials. More and more students began to protest. Johnson took Brown & Root co-founder George Brown (left) with President Lyndon B. Johnson. He It was in this context that General Westmoreland asked Washington in early June for a drastically expanded U.S. military effort to stave off a Communist victory in South Vietnam. As of September, Halliburton had received almost one quarter billion dollars in payment for work done so far, with much more to follow. James Reston believed the demonstrations would make Ho Chi Minh think America did not support its troops. His successor, Richard Nixon, although staunchly anti-communist, won the election largely based on promises to end the war. He chose not to run in 1968. What is perhaps less well known is that the war in fact followed an equally enormous and failed nation building project. While the attacks on Pleiku and Qui Nhon led the administration to escalate its air war against the North, they also highlighted the vulnerability of the bases that American planes would be using for the bombing campaign. Securing these fundsroughly $700 millionraised the question of whether to seek a congressional authorization merely for additional monies or risk a broader debate about the policy course the administration had now set for Vietnam. And as they do on so many other topics, the tapes reveal the uncertainty, flawed information, and doubts to which Johnson himself was frequently prone. All the while, the war in southern Vietnam continued to spiral out of control despite the dramatic increases in firepower and troops and military construction.
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