14-06-2013, 01:57 AM
I'll never forget the first time I talked to John Newman.
This was before I read his book, which had just come out.
He said, "It was over in 1961." I didn't understand what he meant by that until after I then read his book.
What he meant was that every single time they tried to get him to send in combat troops, he would not do it. This was culminated with the November debate, in which he is the only guy to speak out against commiting troops.
IMO, you cannot understand why he did that so obstinately unless you know about Edmund Gullion in 1951.
If you do know about that meeting, then the light goes on in your head as to why he is so different than everyone else. Especially Johnson.
I mean, LBJ was actually working with the Pentagon to try and get Ngo Dinh Diem to ask for combat troops in 1961. And then he was getting the real reports through Burris about how bad the war was going in 1962 and 63.
So when he takes over, he sends McNamara over to find out the true facts--which he knows about already! And knowing McNamara understands where he is coming from, he gives him the real picture.
And its upon that which LBJ puts together NSAM 288, which begins battle plans for the war over Vietnam. Just three months after Kennedy is dead. So, as I say in my book, what JFK would not do in three years, LBJ did in three months.
Johnson was a Cold Warrior, not JFK. Johnson bought the snake oil about the Domino Theory, not JFK.
There is a real battle going on with the MSM not just about the assassination, but about who JFK was. Bill O'Reilly's book is bad on both counts.
I mean, Rob Lowe as Kennedy?
This was before I read his book, which had just come out.
He said, "It was over in 1961." I didn't understand what he meant by that until after I then read his book.
What he meant was that every single time they tried to get him to send in combat troops, he would not do it. This was culminated with the November debate, in which he is the only guy to speak out against commiting troops.
IMO, you cannot understand why he did that so obstinately unless you know about Edmund Gullion in 1951.
If you do know about that meeting, then the light goes on in your head as to why he is so different than everyone else. Especially Johnson.
I mean, LBJ was actually working with the Pentagon to try and get Ngo Dinh Diem to ask for combat troops in 1961. And then he was getting the real reports through Burris about how bad the war was going in 1962 and 63.
So when he takes over, he sends McNamara over to find out the true facts--which he knows about already! And knowing McNamara understands where he is coming from, he gives him the real picture.
And its upon that which LBJ puts together NSAM 288, which begins battle plans for the war over Vietnam. Just three months after Kennedy is dead. So, as I say in my book, what JFK would not do in three years, LBJ did in three months.
Johnson was a Cold Warrior, not JFK. Johnson bought the snake oil about the Domino Theory, not JFK.
There is a real battle going on with the MSM not just about the assassination, but about who JFK was. Bill O'Reilly's book is bad on both counts.
I mean, Rob Lowe as Kennedy?