Escalation of the Vietnam War; Gulf of Tonkin incident; inadequacies in advice given to the President; Ed Gullion episode; XYZ Affair; UN and U Thant; Bundy-Dobrynin conversation, fall of 1965; A-B Theory proposal; Glassboro; Averell Harriman and Nicolae Ceausescu; San Antonio formula; Anna Chennault; Nixon people’s conviction that LBJ Administration hurt U.S. relations with the South Vietnamese; junior members not in total sympathy with its Department.