Video: 'President Johnson's Remarks on Vietnam at Johns Hopkins University, 4/7/65. MP549.'

(Wednesday, April 7, 1965, 9:00 p.m. EST; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson said tonight that the United States was ready to begin, without prior conditions, diplomatic discussions to end the war in Vietnam.

In his “Peace without Conquest” speech in Shriver Hall Auditorium at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore that was carried on television and radio, Johnson also said he would ask Congress to approve a $1 billion American investment in a vast Southeast Asian regional development program that eventually could include North Vietnam.

Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - LBJ Goes to War [3/11]' (Apr. 7, 1965, at 35:24)