1965 meeting with LBJ about press coverage in Vietnam; Frank Stanton; Arthur Sylvester; LBJ and the press; Walt Rostow; different interpretations of the situation in Vietnam; Bill Moyers; government response to press criticism; qualifications of the press; complexity of the war; herd instinct among correspondents; Joe Alsop; press restrictions on tactical military information; LBJ's decisions about the war; Westmoreland and Abrams
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