The Fulbright Hearings

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President Johnson Lyndon Johnson LBJ J. William Fulbright military conference honolulu Nguyen Van Thieu Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky Phan Quang Tue Tran Ngoc Chau Bui Diem George Kennan containment north vietnam south vietnam Fulbright Hearings Vietnam War hearings Senate Foreign Relations Committee public opinion foreign policy pacification Wayne Morse Maxwell Taylor containment policy containment doctrine communist expansion Soviet expansion Cold War proxy war John Sparkman Ken Burns The Vietnam War WETA
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History-Social Science
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Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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The Fulbright Hearings

In early February of 1966, President Johnson got more bad news. His old friend, J. William Fulbright, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, planned to hold hearings on the Vietnam War. And the television networks intended to cover the hearings from gavel-to-gavel. Johnson tried to deflect the tension by announcing he was going to a military conference in Honolulu to meet for first time the two generals who now headed the Saigon government.

NOTE: This video is part of a lesson plan titled Questioning the Mission.
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