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NSC Working Group on South Vietnam
The National Security Council Working Group on South Vietnam/Southeast Asia was founded in the wake of the election Lyndon B. Johnson's election campaign against Barry Goldwater to explore the different options LBJ could take in Vietnam.〔Brian VanDeMark, ''Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 23〕 William Bundy would later note that this group was "'the most comprehensive' Vietnam policy review 'of any in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.'"
==Background to the Working Group==
Nikita Khrushchev had just been overthrown on October 15, 1964, and American foreign policy experts did not know what to expect from Russia as Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin took over the Soviet world. China had also just exploded its first missile over Lap Nor. Brian VanDeMark captures the mood:
This fear (communism ), however exaggerated, reflected deeply rooted perceptions. Johnson and his advisers viewed China in 1964 much like Truman and his advisers had viewed Russia after World War II--as a militantly expansive force to be contained until mellowed by internal forces or external pressures.〔
"Until this week," LBJ noted, "Only four powers (Britain, Russia, and France ) had entered the dangerous world of nuclear explosions...whatever their differences, all four are sober and serious states, with long experiences as major powers in the world...Communist China has no such experience."〔Radio and Television Report to the American people on Recent Events in Russia, China and Great Britain, October 18, 1964, ''Public Papers: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-64,'' Book II, 1377-1380〕 While LBJ may be correct somewhat, China viewed its primary enemy as Russia, not the United States.〔 ''Time'' Magazine would further raise hell suggesting that, "In the Vast sweep of country from Angkor Wat to the Great Wall, from the Yellow Sea to Pamirs, Red China seeks hegemony" and Gallop polls noted China was feared more than Russia.〔See ''Time,'' 26 February 1965, 25; and A.I.P.O Survey #701-K, released November 25, 1964, in George H. Gallup ed., ''The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion, 1935-1971, 1908-1909. Some 50 percent judged China the gravest danger to peace.〕 The world had become an ideological battleground where one was either for or against communism—no room for middle ground. LBJ was afraid of losing Vietnam as Truman had lost China. Johnson said:
I knew Harry Truman and Dean Acheson had lost their effectiveness from the day that the Communists took over in China. I believed that the loss of China had played a large role in the rise of Joe McCarthy. And I knew that all these problems, taken together, were chickenshit compared with what might happen if we lost Vietnam
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