hey
gipper sense he has not yet put YOU on ignore,how about you copying and pasting these facts asking him WHY does he troll and evade these facts that prove there is no way on the planet the mob could have done it alone without the CIA? he will put you on ignore as well im sure sense that is what he does when he is checkmated
if you copy and paste my post it will FORCE him to see it sense he does not yet have YOU on ignore.
thanks for proving to the entire board when you are losing a debate and cannot refute facts and are checkmated,You put people on ignore.
yeah if you are not interested in the TRUTH,you are correct,you are indeed NOT missing a goddamn thing.
another shill that has penetrated this site to try and get people convinced the mob did it and the government was not complicit only problem with your babble is if it was a sole mob hit,the government would go after the mob and prosecute them but they WONT because they know the mafia will say WAIT A MINUTE IF WE WERE INVOLVED SO WERE YOU and spill the beans stupid **** so your propaganda does not work with me.
Which president started the Vietnam War?
AI Overview
While several presidents played a role in escalating US involvement in the Vietnam War, Lyndon B. Johnson's decisions, particularly after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, are seen as the turning point that led to full-scale American combat involvement.
did you catch those key words dude? COMBAT involvement? kennedy only sent in ADVISORS.
here is also the book this troll also has no interest in that documents that Eisenhower nearly implemented the plans of the CIA to send in combat troops and when kennedy got in he resisted all the policys Ike was eager to implement but once LBJ got in,he did what the CIA asked and implemented them sending in combat troops.
Fought as fiercely by politicians and the public as by troops in Southeast Asia, the Vietnam War--its origins, its conduct, its consequences--is still being contested. In what will become the classic account, based on newly opened archival sources, David Kaiser rewrites what we know about this conflict. Reviving and expanding a venerable tradition of political, diplomatic, and military history, he shows not only why we entered the war, but also why our efforts were doomed to fail.
American Tragedy is the first book to draw on complete official documentation to tell the full story of how we became involved in Vietnam--and the story it tells decisively challenges widely held assumptions about the roles of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. Using an enormous range of source materials from these administrations, Kaiser shows how the policies that led to the war were developed during Eisenhower's tenure and nearly implemented in the closing days of his administration in response to a crisis in Laos; how Kennedy immediately reversed course on Laos and refused for three years to follow recommendations for military action in Southeast Asia; and how Eisenhower's policies reemerged in the military intervention mounted by the Johnson administration. As he places these findings in the context of the Cold War and broader American objectives, Kaiser offers the best analysis to date of the actual beginnings of the war in Vietnam, the impact of the American advisory mission from 1962 through 1965, and the initial strategy of General Westmoreland.
Book Overview
The gift of time may be measured by increment and achievement. Rarely is an historian allowed to reflect upon their own works from the vantage point of 25 years beyond the initial publication. This volume, JFK and Vietnam, second edition, represents the continuation of Dr. John M. Newman's research, progress in his understanding and perceptions, and the fascinating sequence of events that unfolded following publication in 1992. This edition is the culmination of a rich tapestry of extraordinary developments which include the author's access to previously unavailable subjects and materials, analysis of newly released government documents, and the consequential relationship that was formed between Dr. Newman and former Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara following the book's debut. JFK and Vietnam received high praise from Kirkus Reviews and Publisher's Weekly. It was favorably reviewed by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in the New York Times Book Review. Elsewhere the book caused a media firestorm with proponents of conflicting views making absolute declarations in opposition to Dr. Newman's basic thesis: Kennedy was opposed to committing U.S. combat forces to the war in Vietnam and was withdrawing the U.S. advisors at the time of his assassination in November 1963. The president's position led those favoring intervention to concoct a story of battlefield success to prevent a complete withdrawal from Vietnam. Dr. Newman's research detailed the accounts and admission of officers who had never before spoken for the record about the false representations of Viet Cong troop statistics and performance on the battlefield. Kennedy ordered Defense Secretary McNamara to use that myth of success to justify the withdrawal that began in the fall of 1963. An intense struggle erupted in the administration over the president's decision to withdraw. Newman reveals how Kennedy tried to avoid publicly endorsing the fiction of success, and how his opponents quickly pivoted to telling the truth about the failing war effort in the days before the president's tragic murder in Dallas. JFK and Vietnam uses incontrovertible documentary evidence to prove the reversal of Kennedy's withdrawal plan by President Johnson, who ordered key changes be made to a National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM 273) two days after the assassination. Those changes opened the door to the direct use of conventional American military forces in Vietnam. In its original form, JFK and Vietnam was a landmark work that illuminated the false calculations, mistakes, manipulations, deceptions and intrigue which led to the Vietnam War. A quarter century later, JFK and Vietnam, second edition, expands upon and adds to what so powerfully defined its original impact. This description may be from another edition of this product.
AND THEN AFTERWARDS PUT ME ON IGNORE.
