Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - Tet [6/11]' (Mar. 11-12 hearings at 39:39)

(Monday, March 11, 1968, 10:00 a.m. EST; during the Tet Offensive, part of the Vietnam War, Indochina Wars and Cold War) — One day after The New York Times reported that General William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, had asked for 206,000 more American troops, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee pressed Secretary of State Dean Rusk today to disclose whether the administration was planning to expand the war in Vietnam.

The Secretary, however, would go no further than the statement that the administration was re-examining its policy from “A to Z” and considering “all alternatives.”