President's Daily Brief, 7 August 1965

TL;DR — A declassified PDB from the week the Vietnam ground war escalated — the actual document the President read.

⬇ Download the archived copy — kept here so the document survives its source going dark. US federal government work (17 USC §105).

Sanitized, declassified (E.O. 12356), and released to NARA. Stamped TOP SECRET, struck through.

The President’s Daily Brief is the single document the President is guaranteed to read. This is what one actually looked like in 1965 — short, clipped, and narrower than the historiography suggests.

Its value is as a primary source on form: how much a head of state is actually told on an ordinary morning.

Where this came from

• Brendan Sheehan’s public are.na channel

4 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.