Rewind
1966
Following an “unprecedented peace offensive [which] had drawn only ridicule from Hanoi,” President Lyndon Johnson announced that “United States aircraft have resumed action in North Vietnam,” followed in his next breath, reported Newsweek, by the annnouncement of a new effort to bring the Communists to the bargaining table through the U.N. That week brought a flurry of activity, at the end of which “one disturbing question remained: had there been any real progress?” Official U.S. involvement stretched on for another seven years until the Paris Peace Accords in January 1973.