Cabinet Room of the White House just recently when the President Lyndon B Johnson met his top defence advisors on the Vietnam Situation. Around the table are left to right: Secretary of the Navy Paul Nitze, Admiral David L McDonald, Chief of Naval Operations General John McConnell, chief of Staff Air Force Eugene Zuckert, Secretary of the Air Force (outgoing) Harold Brown, Secretary of the Air Force Designate; Presidential Assistant Jack Valenti, General Wallace M Greene Commandant Marine Corps, General Harold K Johnson Army Chief of Staff, Stanley Resor Secretary of the Army, President Johnson, Robert McNamara Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defence Cyrus Vance, General Earle G Wheeler Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and McGeorge Bundy Presudential Advisor 27th July 1965