19-10-2018, 02:54 AM
The only pretty sure thing that I have heard about J K Galbraith is that he was at the dinner or meeting where JFK officially "turned his coat" from being a Northern Catholic Conservative like Senator Thomas Dodd and Speaker John W. McCormack. In that one meeting he cast his lot with the Adlai Stevenson/Eleanor Roosevelt (and Galbraith) crowd.
I think that it's fair to analyze that switch in terms of "professional leftist" and/or "professional conservative" comparable to today. But the foreign policy issues today are nowhere like they were in the 1950's and 1960's and are not really comparable, so a "liberal" on foreign policy in 1963 would not equate to a "liberal" on foreign policy in 2018.
As for Vietnam, it was obvious that the Vietnam steam roller was in full force beginning in 1945 as proven by Col. Fletcher Prouty. Indeed, Ho Chi Minh was a bus-boy at the 1919 Versailles Peace Treaty conference, so you could date the issue at least back to 1919 from that perspective.
So JFK was run over by the Vietnam steam roller because he contemplated pulling out. Since my thesis is that he was killed by Nazis over German political issues, I can't really say he was killed over the Vietnam issue. Maybe you could say that even if he got Germany right, he still got Vietnam wrong, so either way he would have been shot, investigated, impeached, poisoned or something.
If JFK had survived the shooting on 11-22-63, I personally don't think he would have had a chance in hell of ending the Vietnam War prematurely. The Vietnam steamroller ran over Ike, JFK, LBJ and Nixon. Jerry Ford survived but that was because the Vietnam issue had burned itself out like a late-night campfire by 1975.
James Lateer
I think that it's fair to analyze that switch in terms of "professional leftist" and/or "professional conservative" comparable to today. But the foreign policy issues today are nowhere like they were in the 1950's and 1960's and are not really comparable, so a "liberal" on foreign policy in 1963 would not equate to a "liberal" on foreign policy in 2018.
As for Vietnam, it was obvious that the Vietnam steam roller was in full force beginning in 1945 as proven by Col. Fletcher Prouty. Indeed, Ho Chi Minh was a bus-boy at the 1919 Versailles Peace Treaty conference, so you could date the issue at least back to 1919 from that perspective.
So JFK was run over by the Vietnam steam roller because he contemplated pulling out. Since my thesis is that he was killed by Nazis over German political issues, I can't really say he was killed over the Vietnam issue. Maybe you could say that even if he got Germany right, he still got Vietnam wrong, so either way he would have been shot, investigated, impeached, poisoned or something.
If JFK had survived the shooting on 11-22-63, I personally don't think he would have had a chance in hell of ending the Vietnam War prematurely. The Vietnam steamroller ran over Ike, JFK, LBJ and Nixon. Jerry Ford survived but that was because the Vietnam issue had burned itself out like a late-night campfire by 1975.
James Lateer