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Meeting in session. Most seated at the table; McGeorge Bundy is standing; William Bundy, back to camera, is walking toward his seat. Chester Cooper is seated against wall (left); Clark Clifford and Horace Busby are seated against curtains (right).

Meeting in session. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson speaking and gesturing as others listen.

Close-up shot of Sec. Robert McNamara (left), speaking and gesturing as Cyrus Vance listens.

Carl Rowan speaking and gesturing as John McNaughton (in soft focus, foreground left) and Chester Cooper (partially obscured by chair, in bkg) listen.

Leonard Marks (left) and Carl Rowan seated at table, listening.

L-R: Sec. Dean Rusk, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Bill Moyers

Gen. Earle Wheeler (right) speaking and gesturing as Cyrus Vance (left) listens.

(L-R) George Ball, Sec. Dean Rusk, Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson looking at a document

Meeting apparently out of session. Sec. Robert McNamara (right) speaking as Sec. Dean Rusk listens.

Meeting out of session. Richard Helms (right) is in conversation with Cyrus Vance.

Portrait of Bill Moyers

Close-up shot of George Ball (left) and Sec. Dean Rusk seated at table, listening.

L-R: Sec. Robert McNamara, Cyrus Vance

Close-up of Sec. Robert McNamara speaking and gesturing.

Close-up of Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson speaking and gesturing.

Close-up of Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson speaking and gesturing.

Close-up of Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson speaking and gesturing.

Bill Moyers

Sec. Robert McNamara speaking as President Lyndon B. Johnson (soft focus, far right) and others listen.

Meeting in session. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson speaking and gesturing as others listen.

Meeting in session. Participants at end of table.

L-R: McGeorge Bundy and Jack Valenti

Meeting in session. Amb. Henry Cabot Lodge (foreground right) with his left hand to his face, other participants across the table,

Meeting in session. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson speaking and gesturing as others listen.

Meeting out of session. Clark Clifford (left) making or reviewing notes as Adm. William Raborn observes.

Meeting out of session. Participants conversing with one another.

Meeting out of session. Participants conversing with one another. McGeorge Bundy and Cyrus Vance stretching forward to each other across the table, looking at a document.

Meeting in session. Close-up of Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson speaking and gesturing as Sec. Robert McNamara listens.

Meeting in session. Close-up of Amb. Henry Cabot Lodge speaking and gesturing as others listen.

Meeting in session. Close-up of Sec. Dean Rusk speaking and gesturing.

Meeting in session. Close-up of President Lyndon B. Johnson, seated at table, listening.

Close-up of Sec. Robert Mc Namara, apparently deep in thought.

Close-up of Sec. Dean Rusk.

Meeting in session. Close-up of George Ball, speaking and gesturing with both hands.

Close-up of Leonard Unger, speaking and gesturing, as others listen.

Close-up of President Lyndon B. Johnson at National Security Council Meeting

Meeting in session. Close-up of Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson (left) and Sec. Robert McNamara listening

Meeting in session. Seated on near side of table: Amb. Henry Cabot Lodge (left), McGeorge Bundy

L-R: Unidentified (soft focus, back to camera, partly cropped out of frame), Clark Clifford, President Lyndon B. Johnson

Sec. John Gardner, seated at table, speaking a gesturing as others listen.

Poring over a document (L-R) Sec. Robert McNamara, Sec. Dean Rusk, Cyrus Vance

Meeting in session. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson speaking and gesturing as others listen.

Meeting in session. Seated (L-R), near side of table: Arthur Dean, John McCloy. Far side of table: Jack Valenti, Clark Clifford, George Ball, Sec. Dean Rusk, Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson, Sec. Robert McNamara

Sec. Robert McNamara speaking as others listen.

Medium close-up of Air Force Secretary-to be Harold Brown, others seated nearby.

Meeting in session. Wide shot of entire table with participants.

Meeting in session. Wide shot of table with participants.

Close-up of Navy Secretary Paul Nitze speaking and gesturing.

Close-up of Gen. John McConnell speaking. Sec. Eugene Zuckert seen to right of frame.

Close-up of out-going Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert speaking. In-coming Air Force Secretary Harold Brown seated to right of frame.

Meeting in session. Gen. Harold K. Johnson (center frame), Gen. Wallace Greene, and Army Secretary Stanley Resor (in soft focus right) listening.

Clark Clifford, seated back away from table, listening, hands to his chin and mouth.

Close-up of Gen. Wallace Greene, speaking and gesturing.

Close-up of Army Secretary Stanley Resor listening to Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson (who is mostly out of frame)

Close-up of Gen. Harold K. Johnson speaking and gesturing as Gen. Wallace Greene (left) listens and makes notes.

Close-up of Arthur Dean speaking and gesturing.

Sec. Robert McNamara speaking, gesturing with his left hand. Cyrus Vance is in soft focus in foreground, right.

Meeting in session. John McCloy (left) and Arthur Dean seated at table, listening.

Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson speaking and gesturing

Clark Clifford (left) speaking to Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson (facing away from camera)

McGeorge Bundy (foreground, right) makes notes; in conversation in the background are Arthur Dean (left) and President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Adm. David McDonald speaking and gesturing as Navy Secretary Paul Nitze (center left), others listen.

Meeting breaking up; everyone is standing. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson (right) converses with Cyrus Vance and Sec. Robert McNamara.

Wide shot of the whole table; meeting in session. Sec. Dean Rusk is departing from his seat.

Wide shot of the whole table; McGeorge Bundy (center left) speaking (apparently) as others listen.

Meeting breaking up. At right Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson, two others search for something (a contact lens?) on the carpet as others look on.

Wide shot of the whole table; Sec. Robert McNamara speaking and gesturing as others listen.

Close-up of Sec. Robert S. McNamara

Candid portrait of Sec. Robert McNamara, leaning forward, his right hand to his mouth.

Sec. Robert McNamara speaking and gesturing as President Lyndon B. Johnson (soft focus, bkg) listens.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, others, apparently deep in thought.

Sec. Robert McNamara speaking and gesturing as others listen. (L-R) George Ball, Sec. Dean Rusk, President Lyndon B. Johnson, McNamara.

Meeting in session. Wide shot of the whole table.

Meeting in session. President Lyndon B. Johnson speaking and gesturing as others listen.

Meeting in session. President Lyndon B. Johnson, left hand to mouth, looking downward as others observe.

In conversation (L-R): Sec. Dean Rusk, V.P. Hubert Humphrey, Amb. Arthur Goldberg.

In conversation (L-R): Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach, Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson

Meeting in session. (L-R) V.P. Hubert Humphrey, Llewellyn Thompson, George Ball, McGeorge Bundy, Sec. Robert McNamara, Gen. Earle Wheeler, Carl Rowan (back to camera), Bill Moyers.

Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson standing as meeting breaks up.

Participants converse as meeting breaks up.

Sec. Robert McNamara pointing to a document that Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson is studying as Gen. Earle Wheeler, Sec. Dean Rusk (right) look on.

Gen. Earle Wheeler leaning forward, speaking to Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson and gesturing as Sec. Dean Rusk (left) looks on.

(L-R) Bill Moyers (left) and Sec. Robert McNamara (right) in earnest conversation as Clark Clifford (center) listens.

Sec. Robert McNamara (left) and Gen. Earle Wheeler in conversation

L-R: Amb. Arthur Goldberg, Amb. Henry Cabot Lodge, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, George Ball, Sec. Dean Rusk, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Sec. Robert McNamara, Gen. Earl Wheeler

Gen. Earle Wheeler speaking to Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson as others listen.

Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson speaking and gesturing as others seated at table listen.

Meeting in session. Wide shot of whole table with participants.

Seated around table (clockwise from left): Bill Moyers, V.P. Hubert Humphrey, Amb. Arthur Goldberg, Amb. Henry Cabot Lodge, Richard Helms, Clark Clifford, George Ball (behind Rusk), Sec. Dean Rusk, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Sec. Robert McNamara,…

Sec. Dean Rusk provides a light moment. Wide shot of whole table with participants.

President Lyndon B. Johnson driving car

Close-up of Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson as viewed between the left arm and body of Gen. Earle Wheeler

Close-up of Sec. Dean Rusk gesturing as George Ball (left) looks on

Close-up of Gen. Earle Wheeler. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson seen in soft focus in bkg left.

Listening to the discourse (L-R) Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson, Sec. Robert McNamara.

Amb. Henry Cabot Lodge speaking and gesturing as others listen.

Close-up of President Lyndon B. Johnson

Clark Clifford, seated at the table, looking down, his fingers laced, thumbs toward his mouth.

Arthur Goldberg, newly-sworn-in Ambassador to the United Nations, speaking and gesturing as others listen.

Llewellyn Thompson speaking and gesturing as others listen.