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Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
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War in Southeast Asia from 1955 to 1975
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President of the United States from 1963 to 1969
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North Vietnam
Country in Southeast Asia (1945–1976)
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