President Johnson Meeting with National Security Council

(Original Caption) President Johnson shown meeting with National Security Council 8/4 with prime topic expected to be the North Vietnamese torpedo boat attack on the U.S. destroyer Maddox. Clockwise around the table are: Carl Rowan, Director U.S.I.A.; McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to President L.B.J.; Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon; Edward McDermott, Director, Office of Emergency Planning; Attorney General Robert Kennedy; John McCone, Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission; George Ball, Under Secretary of State; Secretary of State Dean Rusk; President Johnson; Defense Secretary Robert McNamara; and Bromley Smith, Executive Secretary National Security Council.