... believe Kennedy stood head and shoulders above the rest. When looking back at JFK's presidency people see, the man who saved the world from nuclear war in the Cuban missile crisis, the lost leader who would of saved the agony of Vietnam. Although these view points can be challenged for example ... although he may have saved the world from nuclear war he also put the American people in that position, with the invasion of Cuba by Kennedy, and it was only on the understanding that Nuclear ... American people at the time were unaware of this information and saw Kennedy as the hero, the fact ...

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... states how these beliefs were reaffirmed when the Americans had arrived there, since "among most of the ten million people of rural South Vietnam, terms like democracy, Communism, imperialism, and Cold War were meaningless," (Mecklin 4). Furthermore, Americans faced great difficulty in being able to communicate with the Vietnamese peasants, and believed that "[their] concept of [nationhood] was largely gone in ... equally by both sides, since the Americans "[projected] onto Asians their own values; [believing] the threat of steadily enlarged destruction [would] force them to seek a ...

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