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U.S. Secretary of Defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
Lyndon B. Johnson [r]: American politician (1908-1973); president 1963–1969; known for his civil rights bills and "The Great Society". ^[e]
Ford Motor Company [r]: An American automobile manufacturer founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and based in Dearborn, Michigan. ^[e]
John F. Kennedy [r]: (1917-1963) American politician (D-MA) serving as President of the U.S. from 1961 until his assassination in 1963 in Dallas, Texas. ^[e]
World Bank [r]: Collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and its affiliates: the International Finance Corporation, organized in 1950 to provide long-term project financing to developing countries; and the International Development Association, formed in 1960 to make long-term loans at low interest rates. ^[e]

Vietnam, war, and the United States [r]: Add brief definition or description
Joint warfare in South Vietnam 1964-1968‎ [r]: The period of the Vietnam War in which large numbers of foreign ground troops, primarily but not exclusively U.S., allied with the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam against the People's Army of Viet Nam and the Viet Cong ^[e]
Cuban Missile Crisis [r]: Probably the closest the U.S. and Soviet Union came to nuclear war, a confrontation, in October 1962, when Soviet missiles were discovered in Cuba, and eventually removed through a naval show of force and diplomatic maneuvering ^[e]
F-111 [r]: Add brief definition or description
Pentagon Papers [r]: Those parts, leaked by Daniel Ellsberg and published after court action, of a U.S. Department of Defense study of decisionmaking in the Vietnam wars ^[e]

Joint Chiefs of Staff [r]: The staff committee of the most senior members of the U.S. military services, charged with policy advice, doctrinal development, and preparedness rather than operational control of forces ^[e]
Maxwell Taylor [r]: U.S. Army officer who commanded Airborne units in the Second World War, he rose to full general and Chief of Staff of the Army. Recalled from retirement by John F. Kennedy, he took on a number of politicomilitary roles including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Ambassador to South Vietnam. ^[e]
McGeorge Bundy [r]: Harvard University professor and dean who became Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Administrations between 1961-1966. ^[e]
Dean Rusk [r]: United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1968 in the Administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, with extensive Asian experience and a strong advocate of U.S. resistance to Communism in Southeast Asia ^[e]
George Ball [r]: Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, who regularly advised against escalation in the Vietnam War, believing it detracted from U.S. priorities in Europe ^[e]
Operations research [r]: A set of quantitative techniques for optimum decisionmaking, often with uncertainty, which were first used to solve military operational problems ^[e]