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.”

Video: 'PBS LBJ Part 2' (July 28, 1965, at 38:17/39:52)

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.

Video: 'Vietnam Documentary: LBJ Goes to War' (July 28, 1965, at 43:05)