Robert S. McNamara

With the Pentagon Papers revelations, the U.S. public’s trust in the government was forever diminished.

The nation’s most trusted news anchor had not been critical of the Vietnam War. A visit to Hue during the Tet offensive changed his mind.

In a Facebook Live chat, four retired Times staff members described their dramatic 1971 retreat to a Midtown hotel to focus on preparing the Pentagon Papers.

The newspaper drama revolves around the Pentagon Papers and other real-life events. But how much is real? We sort fact from fiction.

How much blame does the whiz-kid defense secretary deserve for Vietnam?

Lyndon Johnson needed straight talk on the Vietnam War. Instead, America’s foreign policy establishment gave him a pep talk.

The Selective Service wasn’t just a way to get men into the Army during Vietnam. It was a tool for social engineering too.

The president might have tried to end the war in 1967. Then came Senator John Stennis.

As early as 1966, Lyndon Johnson was looking for a way out of the war.

A plan to build a barrier to seal off South Vietnam from the North was rejected as ridiculously expensive in the 1960s. But the idea lived on.