They did, however, expose the mindset of the policy planners as well aserrors in judgment that had led to the growing Americancommitmentduring the administrationofLyndon Johnson.
During his years in President Kennedy's administration, Carl Rowan got to know Lyndon B.Johnson.
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The publication, which the Nixon administration tried to stop, revealed details about the way the war had been escalated which seemed to contradict what the public had been told by the previous administration of President LyndonJohnson.