“There are those who say you ought to go North and drop bombs to try to wipe out the supply lines,” Johnson said at Eufala, Oklahoma, on 25 September. “We don’t want our American boys to do the fighting for Asian boys. … To get involved with 700 million people and get tied down in a land war in Asia.” Four days later, in a speech in Tokyo, William Bundy left a different impression: “Expansion of the war outside South Vietnam, while not a course we want or seek, could be forced on us by the pressures of the Communists.” Columnist Arthur Krock in the New York Times commented: “Political
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