Video: 'American Experience LBJ 2' (Nov. 2, 1967, at 1:16:39)

(Thursday, November 2, 1967, 10:42 a.m.-2:20 p.m. EST; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson held a secret meeting today at the White House with “the Wise Men,” a group of “former officials whose advice he trusted” and asked them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the Vietnam War.

The panel, which included Dean Acheson, McGeorge Bundy, Clark Clifford, Henry Cabot Lodge and Maxwell Taylor, urged the President to give the American people more optimistic reports on the war’s progress, based on their conclusion that the U.S. was winning the war effort.