50 years ago today, June 16, in sunny Vietnam-land - Where were you?

Navy Department schedules reactivation of hospital ship Repose (AH-16), first hospital ship activated for Vietnam Conflict.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces that 21,000 more U.S. troops are to be sent to Vietnam.
He also claimed that it was now known that North Vietnamese regular troops had begun to infiltrate South Vietnam.
The new U.S. troops were to join the U.S. Marines and paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade that had arrived earlier to secure U.S. airbases and facilities.
These forces would soon transition from defensive missions to direct combat operations.
As the war escalated, more and more U.S. combat troops were sent to South Vietnam.
By 1969, there were over 540,000 American troops in Vietnam.

Senator J. William Fulbright, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations said on national television that the U.S. should negotiate directly with North Vietnam and make "major concessions" to end the Vietnam War.
Fulbright's statement was criticized by prominent Republicans, including former Vice President Richard Nixon said that negotiations "would be surrender on the installment plan.