JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power

Author - John M. Newman ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Warner Books was reviewed on 4-Nov-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power by Warner Books. As one who has both read Newman´s book and as one who served in Vietnam myself, (1970) I can only say I feel a deep sense of betrayal by my own Government, that I have served so well in two wars in a military capacity and as a Civil Servant in a civilian capacity. The document´s that Newman publishes in his book were classified "Top Secret" at the time of Kennedy´s Assassination. Thanks to the "Freedom of Information" act, that is no longer the case and we can now see the behind the scenes moves that led the US deeper and deeper into Vietnam. We can also see Kennedy´s efforts to reverse course before it became too late.

My grandmother who is now dead and millions of other Americans never saw JFK´s NSAM - 263 classified Top Secret. Nor did I. That NSAM was quietly shelved by Lyndon Johnson two days after Kennedy´s Assassination and his own NSAM implimented. NSAM - 273 freezing everyone in place. Today, thanks to Newman´s book we can now see who was the real culprit responsible for America´s slide into Vietnam. And it certainly wasn´t that awful Roman Catholic President (in the eyes of anti-Kennedy bigots) in the White House, John F. Kennedy.

Instead the REAL culprit was Lyndon Baines Johnson and THAT is how History will eventually record it. Hats off to John M. Newman for bringing these Document´s into public view for future generations to "learn" from. That is IF, people are now willing to learn.

William P. Urban

Sgt US Army
PO2 US Navy¤

2) Hardcover Book JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power by Warner Books. A book called Rethinking Camelot by Noam Chomsky introduced me to the importance of this book. While the United States had suffered a number of defeats in countries in which we had chosen not to fight (China being gigantic compared to France), most of the people involved in maintaining American policy on Vietnam had accepted the idea that a way could be found to win in Vietnam. John M. Newman considered the importance of that idea "like going to church" for the people whose actions would be based entirely on the strength of such convictions. My father (who was not mentioned in the book being reviewed) was a minister who had been ordained during World War II, possibly a good excuse for not actually fighting in that war, but not good enough to convince me that God would always give us perpetual peace out of the goodness of His heart for having saved the world from the domination of anyone who actually wanted to rule here. Chomsky´s book was based on the premise that American policy was the desire to win in Vietnam, an aim which Kennedy couldn´t have deserted until this country had extracted the last full measure of devotion from everyone concerned. In the present, it should be much easier to admit the tendency to waffle, as all things have been twisted into a psychotic multiplicity in which our deepest desires take part in the constant attack on the facts. As much as those like Chomsky, who believe that Americans should maintain a certain level of belief in policy, might differ, I am inclined to think that some real dirt can be dug up on this issue, and this book shows what the official record looks like when its secrecy has been stripped away.¤

3) Hardcover Book JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power by Warner Books. Reveals an intense power struggle that plagued the Kennedy Administration before the Vietnam War and contends that the president´s advisors conspired to deceive Kennedy and push the United States into combat.¤

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