Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Major General Lewis W. Walt, Commanding General of the 3rd Marine Division, are seen in a conversation with a pilot during Secretary McNamara's visit to Vietnam in 1965. This photograph captures the engagement at a military base, reflecting the high-level involvement and coordination between political and military officials during the Vietnam War.

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