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Title: Johnson's Vietnam Anguish, May 27, 1964: Conversation with national security advisor McGeorge Bundy.
Speaker: Lyndon B Johnson
Delivered On: 1964-05-27
Place: Washington, DC
Subject: Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975
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Description: Secretly recorded conversations made by President Lyndon Baines Johnson in the White House Oval Office. These tapes were released in February 1997 by the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas.

Conversation with national security advisor McGeorge Bundy. Bundy seeks permission to meet with Canadian officials as a means to transmit information to the North Vietnamese. Johnson goes on to express strong doubts about American involvement.
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