JFK and Vietnam.

From: National Review | Date: November 30, 1992| Author: Roche, John P. | Copyright information

JFK and Vietnam, by John M. Newman (Warner Books, 506 pp., $29.95)

ENCOURAGED BY Oliver Stone's odious film, John M. Newman attempts to establish the following thesis: President John F. Kennedy secretly decided to abandon U.S. intervention in South Vietnam as soon as possible, but all his efforts were frustrated by (you guessed?) a monster conspiracy of the military, the spooks, State Department hacks, assorted hobbits, and, inevitably, Vice President Lyndon Johnson. T...

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