(1) LBJ

 (2) McNamara (DOD)

 3) Rusk (State)

(4) McGeorge Bundy (NSC)

(5) Maxwell Taylor replaced Henry Cabot Lodge as ambassador to S. Vietnam

(6) General Earle Wheeler became Chairman of JCS

 (7) Gen. William Westmoreland became MACV commander

 (8) William Bundy became head of the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs.