John Kenneth Galbraith: A Hero in our Time

[Phil Dagosto]

So it does not look like its coming out then does it Anthony? Got any ideas why?

Phil, that thing about Agent Orange is almost funny. If you compare the figures on that to LBJ and Nixon,its sort of like comparing the fatalities between the three or the bomb tonnage. It is so minuscule under Kennedy that the comparison it ridiculous. And now Parker says that Rusk misrepresented it to JFK in the first place.

The professional leftists, like Paul Street, are always out to lunch on this.

I'm pretty sure they can do the arithmetic. Their counter argument would be that JFK would have done the same as LBJ and escalated the war so the result would have been the same. We, of course, know that this is complete nonsense but I've found it impossible to break through their denial on that point.