Haunting questions remain about our involvement in Vietnam.
Perhaps the most persistent of these is whether President Kennedy
would have ended American involvement in Vietnam if he had
lived.
For many Americans, Oliver Stone's film JFK left no doubt that
before his assassination Kennedy had determined to quit Vietnam.
Yet the historical record offers a more complex answer. In this
fresh look at the archival evidence, noted scholars take up the
challenge to provide us with their conclusions about the early
decisions that put the United States on the path to the greatest
American tragedy since the Civil War. The tensions and turmoil that
accompanied those decisions reveal the American presidency at the
center of a storm of conflicting advice.
The book is divided into four sections. Parts one and two delve
into the political and military contexts of the early decisions.
Part three raises the intriguing questions of Kennedy's and
Johnson's roles in the conflict, particularly the thorny issue of
whether Kennedy did, in fact, intend to withdraw from Vietnam and
whether Johnson reversed that policy. Part four reveals an uncanny
parallel between early Soviet policy toward Hanoi and U.S. policy
toward Saigon.
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