On this day in 1965,

LBJ Tells 1st Of Many Lies About His Vietnam War Plans

On this day in 1965, Democrat President Lyndon Johnson lied to the media about his recent deployment of the first 3,500 Marines sent to Vietnam, supposedly solely for defensive purposes to secure the U.S. base at DaNang.  Johnson really had plans to send more troops to Vietnam and to use them offensively rather than just defensively.  By the time LBJ was hounded out of office because of the war, he had sent 500,000 Americans to Vietnam.  58,000 American boys, many of whom were drafted and forced to fight in Vietnam, never came home.

[See Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s former National Security Advisor, "Dereliction of Duty" subtitled “Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the lies that led to Vietnam.”  Gen. McMaster says Democrat President Johnson “disregarded the advice he did not want to hear in favor of a policy based on the pursuit of his own political fortunes and his beloved domestic programs."  "The administration’s lies to the American public grew in magnitude as the American military effort in Vietnam escalated,” initially without the public’s knowledge or consent.]