 LTV, a major defense contractor, was almost bankrupt. Defense contracts flowing from the Vietnam War changed that. And by 1968, the stock had increased geometrically in value. Meanwhile, we know that President Kennedy opposed vehemently a protracted ground war and that as soon as he was dead, Lyndon Johnson dispatched thousands of troops to Vietnam. Among D.H. Byrd's associates was a man named Neil Mallon, the skull and bones classmate of Prescott Bush,