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This was the frustration that made lyndon johnson's fingernails sweat. >> b-52 bombers made attacks at casson. >> unup in the northern western corner of south veem. >> 6,000 american marines and 500 south veet namtz rangers are surrounded by 40,000 communist troops. >> and general west moreland says this is great, the culminating battle we wanted. >> johnson is very worried that the outcome of this bolts could change the outcome of the war. >> the eyes of the nation and of all history itself are on that little brave band of defenders at casson and the area that is

Give him a place in history. >> in terms of civil rights, no tree in the forest is as tall except lyndon johnson. >> if ever there was a nation capable of solving its problems, it is this nation. >> johnson had to be the best. he just was driven by this idea to be top dog. that's also how he felt about vietnam. >> since i reported to you last january, the enemy has been defeated in battle after battle. >> he knew all of that would make him a candidate for some future at mt. rushmore. but he also knew he was unlikely to be at any future mt. rushmore because of the vietnam war. this was the frus...

Vietnam p. he was a pioneer in what we call today counter insurgency. his belief is you would never defeat an insurgency with bombs and bullets. you have to beat it politically. you have to over the people a better alternative to what inturjents are offering. unfortunately his advice was ignored in vietnam. where moreland and the american military high command thought they could bomb the viet cong into oblivion. now i think you see what they dealt with in the 1950s and 1960s where you see corrupt government, ill illegitimate government, and insurgent groups as as americans our fall back reflex...

German aircraft that allied late in the war. >> landing in britain, i think to be seen at various british airports. >> jon: americans built bombers, the heaviest flying machine of its day. boeing built nearly 3,000 of these behemoths at its plant in wichita, kansas, incorporating the latest technology such as guns fired by remote control. its owns the pacific theater dropping the atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki, which brought japan to surrender. it's no stretch to say that absent the development of this superb american airplane, world war ii might've had a a very different outcome. anot...

>> b-29 landing in britain, i think to be seen at various >> jon: americans built bombers, the heaviest flying machine of its day. boeing built nearly 3,000 of these behemoths at its plant in wichita, kansas, incorporating the latest technology such as guns fired by remote control. b-29s owned the pacific theater dropping the atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki, which brought japan to surrender.c it's no stretch to say that absent the development of this superb american airplane, world war ii might've had a very different outcome. another boeing product, the b-52 straddle fortress filled th...