1. Kennedy and the Cuban Crisis vs Johnson and Vietnam
... of the most unpopular Presidents in history. I'll be damned everywhere as a Communist appeaser. But I don't care. If I tried to pull out completely now from Vietnam, we would have another Joe McCarthy scare on our hands, but I can do it after I'm reelected. So we had better make damned sure that I am reelected. At a press conference that was upcoming in Hawaii Kennedy ... the victory for the South and the United States during the Tet offensive, General Westmoreland asked for 200,000 more troops to be deployed. McNamara's successor as Secretary of Defense, Clark Clifford, who had a close...
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