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Listening to hours of our 36th president’s secret White House tapes, Michael Beschloss, America’s leading presidential historian, “felt the hair on the back on my neck rise” as he heard LBJ announce–in 1965–that “I don’t see any way of winning” in Vietnam. In a poignant excerpt from Beschloss’s book “Reaching For Glory,” published this week, watch as a president grapples with the thorny questions of war and peace. (Page 58)