Earl Comstock was largely responsible for our Vietnam policy.
Gravel also benefited by being deliberately ambiguous about his Vietnam policy.
In the 1960's it may have expressed opposition to the country's Vietnam policies, or at least to the compulsory draft.
The resolution and the presidential election suggested a nation united behind its president in his Vietnam policy.
President Johnson later took a lot of abuse about his Vietnam policy, but that night he was a true gentleman.
He described critics of the President's Vietnam policies as "the new Chamberlains."
So, not surprisingly, he hadn't the cheek to chart his own Vietnam policy.
Whether or not there was a fundamental difference between Kennedy's and Johnson's Vietnam policies deserves more debate.
By the mid-1960s, he was involved in the State Department's Vietnam policy.
He claimed that the most "ordinary" Americans supported his Vietnam policy.