With the outbreak of hostilities on 5 June, 1967, President Lyndon Baines Johnson was faced with a crisis to manage. Already consumed with the war in Vietnam, Johnson now had to prevent a direct confrontation with the Soviet Union, played out on the Israeli-Arab battlefield. What were his options and constraints?
Introductory Remarks: Luci Baines Johnson
Moderator: Deborah Lauter, Senior Vice President, Policy and Programs, ADL
Panelists:
Joseph A. Califano Jr., President Johnson’s Assistant for Domestic Affairs from 1965 to 1969
Mark Updegrove, Director, LBJ Presidential Library
Part of The Six Day War: A Fifty-Year Retrospective - Co-presented by the Anti-Defamation League and the LBJ Presidential Library