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245 00 $aVietnam :$bthe early decisions /$cedited by Lloyd C. Gardner with Ted Gittinger.
260 $aAustin :$bUniversity of Texas Press,$c1997.
263 $a9709
300 $a228 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction /$rLloyd C. Gardner --$tVietnam: An Episode in the Cold War /$rRobert A. Divine --$tA Way of Thinking: The Kennedy Administration's Initial Assumptions about Vietnam and Their Consequences /$rBrian VanDeMark --$tFrom the Colorado to the Mekong /$rLloyd C. Gardner --$tHanoi's Response to American Policy, 1961-1965: Crossed Signals? /$rWilliam J. Duiker --$tThe Zen of Escalation: Containment and Commitment in Southeast Asia /$rJohn Prados --$tConspiracy of Silence: LBJ, the Joint Chiefs, and Escalation of the War in Vietnam /$rGeorge C. Herring --$tLyndon Johnson and the Legacy of Vietnam /$rWilliam Conrad Gibbons --$tThe Kennedy-Johnson Transition: The Case for Policy Reversal /$rJohn M. Newman --$tNSAM 263 and NSAM 273: Manipulating History /$rLarry Berman --$tTurnabout? The Soviet Policy Dilemna in the Vietnamese Conflict /$rIlya V. Gaiduk.
520 $aMore than twenty years have passed since American military personnel finally withdrew from Vietnam, yet haunting questions remain about our involvement there. Perhaps the most persistent of these - and certainly the most unanswerable - is the question of what would have happened if President Kennedy had lived beyond 1963. Would he have ended American involvement in Vietnam?
520 8 $aFor many Americans, Oliver Stone's powerful film JFK answered the question by leaving no doubt that before his assassination Kennedy had determined to quit Vietnam. Yet the historical record offers a much more complex answer. In this fresh look at the archival evidence, noted scholars take up the challenge to provide us with their conclusions about the early decisions that put the United States on the path to the greatest American tragedy since the Civil War.
520 8 $aThe tensions and turmoil that accompanied those decisions reveal the American presidency at the center of a storm of conflicting advice.
520 8 $aThe book is divided into four sections. Part one delves into the political context in which the early decisions were made, while part two considers the military context. Part three raises the intriguing questions of Kennedy's and Johnson's roles in the conflict, particularly the thorny issue of whether Kennedy did, in fact, intend to withdraw from Vietnam and whether Johnson reversed that policy.
520 8 $aPart four reveals an uncanny parallel between early Soviet policy toward Hanoi and U.S. policy toward Saigon.
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651 0 $aVietnam$xForeign relations$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113221
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zVietnam.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100031
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1961-1963.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140100
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700 1 $aGardner, Lloyd C.,$d1934-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50015257
700 1 $aGittinger, Ted.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr94030449
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