# WHY VIETNAM?

Department of Defense PIN 46000 WHY VIETNAM? THE FILM OUTLINES THE UNITED STATES POLICY WITH RESPECT TO SOUTH VIETNAM AS STATED BY PRESIDENT JOHNSON IN AN ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE WORLD AT LARGE. PRESIDENT JOHNSON IN ANSWERING THE QUERY WHY VIETNAM? EXPLAINS THE BACKGROUND OF U.S. GOVERNMENT THINKING, ITS VIEWS ON AGGRESSION, THE ORIGIN OF U.S. COMMITMENTS THERE , AND THE BUILD-UP FROM SUPPLIES TO MILITARY ADVISORS, TO U.S. FIGHTING TROOPS OF THE ARMED SERVICES, IN RESPONSE TO THE EVER INCREASING CHALLENGE OF THE NORTH VIETNAM SUPPORTED BY THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS SECRETARY OF STATE DEAN RUSK APPEARS IN THE FILM TO EXPLAIN THE NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS ON THE PART OF THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER NATIONS OF THE WORLD TO BRING ABOUT A CEASE FIRE IN VIETNAM. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT MCNAMARA ASSURES THE AUDIENCE THAT THE UNITED STATES SEEKS NO WIDER WAR. PRESIDENT JOHNSON SAYS THAT WE WILL NOT BLUSTER NOR BULLY NOR WILL WE RETREAT.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1965
- By: Department of Defense
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.46000)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.