Video: 'President Johnson's News Conference, 7/28/65. MP550.'

(Wednesday, July 28, 1965, 12:34 p.m EDT; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. President Lyndon Johnson announced today that United States military strength in South Vietnam would be increased from the present 75,000 men to 125,000 “almost immediately.”

Draft calls, Johnson said, will be gradually raised to 35,000 men a month from the current rate of 17,000 and the campaign for voluntary enlistments will be stepped up.

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