15-06-2013, 10:44 AM
In the book McNamara writes, ""I think it is highly probable that, had President Kennedy lived, he would have pulled us out of Vietnam... I think he would have come to that conclusion even if he reasoned, as I believe he would have, that South Vietnam and, ultimately, Southeast Asia would then be lost to communism. .. Kennedy would have agreed that withdrawal would cause a fall of the "dominoes' but that staying in would ultimately lead to the same result, while exacting a terrible price in blood... So I conclude that John Kennedy would have eventually gotten out of Vietnam rather than move more deeply in.''
Was Vietnam Jfk's War?
Oct 20, 1996 8:00 PM EDT
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/19...s-war.html
McNamara explains in his book that at a ""very important'' National Security Council meeting on Oct. 2, 1963, President Kennedy made three decisions: (1) to completely withdraw all U.S. forces from Vietnam by Dec. 31, 1965; (2) to withdraw 1,000 U.S. troops by the end of 1963 to begin the process; and (3) to make a public announcement, in order to put this decision ""in concrete.''
After the Oct. 2 meeting, Kennedy asked McNamara to issue these recommendations as a ""report'' from himself as secretary of defense along with Gen. Maxwell Taylor. McNamara made the announcement personally from the steps of the White House. As he headed off to face the reporters, JFK yelled after him, ""And tell them that means all of the helicopter pilots, too.''
Phil's note: A modest proposal: Resolved: that Oliver Stone will direct a screen adaption of James Douglass' JFK and the Unspeakable. The technical advisory horse power available is staggering.
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Was Vietnam Jfk's War?
Oct 20, 1996 8:00 PM EDT
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/19...s-war.html
McNamara explains in his book that at a ""very important'' National Security Council meeting on Oct. 2, 1963, President Kennedy made three decisions: (1) to completely withdraw all U.S. forces from Vietnam by Dec. 31, 1965; (2) to withdraw 1,000 U.S. troops by the end of 1963 to begin the process; and (3) to make a public announcement, in order to put this decision ""in concrete.''
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After the Oct. 2 meeting, Kennedy asked McNamara to issue these recommendations as a ""report'' from himself as secretary of defense along with Gen. Maxwell Taylor. McNamara made the announcement personally from the steps of the White House. As he headed off to face the reporters, JFK yelled after him, ""And tell them that means all of the helicopter pilots, too.''
Phil's note: A modest proposal: Resolved: that Oliver Stone will direct a screen adaption of James Douglass' JFK and the Unspeakable. The technical advisory horse power available is staggering.
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