Death of a Generation How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War eBook-EEn

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release name: Death.of.a.Generation.How.the.Assassinations.of.Diem.and.JFK.Prolonged.the.Vietnam.War.eBook-EEn
release date: 07.03.07 ?size: 5.56 MB
author: Howard Jones
title: Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem
and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War
ISBN: 0195176057 ?FORMAT: PDF ?category/genre: History

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When John F. Kennedy was shot, millions were
left to wonder how America, and the world, would
have been different had he lived to fulfill the
enormous promise of his presidency. For many
historians and political observers, what Kennedy
would and would not have done in Vietnam has
been a source of enduring controversy. Now,
based on convincing new evidence--including a
startling revelation about the Kennedy
administration's involvement in the assassination
of Premier Diem--Howard Jones argues that Kennedy
intended to withdraw the great bulk of American
soldiers and pursue a diplomatic solution to the
crisis in Vietnam. Drawing upon recently
declassified hearings by the Church Committee on
the U.S. role in assassinations, newly released
tapes of Kennedy White House discussions, and
interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert
McNamara, Dean Rusk, and others from the
president's inner circle, Jones shows that
Kennedy firmly believed that the outcome of the
war depended on the South Vietnamese. In the
spring of 1962, he instructed Secretary of
Defense McNamara to draft a withdrawal plan
aimed at having all special military forces
home by the end of 1965. The "Comprehensive
Plan for South Vietnam" was ready for approval
in early May 1963, but then the Buddhist revolt
erupted and postponed the program. Convinced that
the war was not winnable under Diem's leadership,
President Kennedy made his most critical mistake--
promoting a coup as a means for facilitating a U.S.
withdrawal. In the cruelest of ironies, the coup
resulted in Diem's death followed by a state of
turmoil in Vietnam that further obstructed
disengagement. Still, these events only confirmed
Kennedy's view about South Vietnam's inability to
win the war and therefore did not lessen his
resolve to reduce the U.S. commitment. By the end
of November, however, the president was dead and
Lyndon Johnson began his campaign of escalation.
Jones argues forcefully that if Kennedy had not
been assassinated, his withdrawal plan would have
spared the lives of 58,000 Americans and countless
Vietnamese. Written with vivid immediacy, supported
with authoritative research, Death of a Generation
answers one of the most profoundly important
questions left hanging in the aftermath of John F.
Kennedy's death.

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