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The Kennedy Withdrawal - Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam (Hardcover)
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The Kennedy Withdrawal - Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam (Hardcover)
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A major revision of our understanding of JFK's commitment to
Vietnam, revealing that his administration's plan to withdraw was a
political device, the effect of which was to manage public opinion
while preserving US military assistance. In October 1963, the White
House publicly proposed the removal of US troops from Vietnam,
earning President Kennedy an enduring reputation as a skeptic on
the war. In fact, Kennedy was ambivalent about withdrawal and was
largely detached from its planning. Drawing on secret presidential
tapes, Marc J. Selverstone reveals that the withdrawal statement
gave Kennedy political cover, allowing him to sustain support for
US military assistance. Its details were the handiwork of Defense
Secretary Robert McNamara, whose ownership of the plan distanced it
from the president. Selverstone's use of the presidential tapes,
alongside declassified documents, memoirs, and oral histories,
lifts the veil on this legend of Camelot. Withdrawal planning was
never just about Vietnam as it evolved over the course of fifteen
months. For McNamara, it injected greater discipline into the US
assistance program. For others, it was a form of leverage over
South Vietnam. For the military, it was largely an unwelcome
exercise. And for JFK, it allowed him to preserve the US commitment
while ostensibly limiting it. The Kennedy Withdrawal offers an
inside look at presidential decisionmaking in this liminal period
of the Vietnam War and makes clear that portrayals of Kennedy as a
dove are overdrawn. His proposed withdrawal was in fact a cagey
strategy for keeping the United States involved in the fight-a
strategy the country adopted decades later in Afghanistan.
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