The Kennedy Withdrawal : : Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam / / Marc J. Selverstone.
A major revision of our understanding of JFK’s commitment to Vietnam, revealing that his administration’s plan to withdraw was a political device, the effect of which was to manage public opinion while preserving US military assistance.In October 1963, the White House publicly proposed the removal o...
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Selverstone, Marc J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Kennedy Withdrawal : Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam / Marc J. Selverstone. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (336 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction The Great “What If?” -- 1 Assumption: January 1961–December 1961 -- 2 Escalation: January 1962–June 1962 -- 3 Formulation: July 1962–December 1962 -- 4 Modification: January 1963–April 1963 -- 5 Acceleration: May 1963–August 1963 -- 6 Declaration: September 1963–October 1963 -- 7 Implementation: October 1963–November 1963 -- 8 Cancellation: November 1963–March 1964 -- Epilogue: The Shadow of Camelot -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A major revision of our understanding of JFK’s commitment to Vietnam, revealing that his administration’s plan to withdraw was a political device, the effect of which was to manage public opinion while preserving US military assistance.In October 1963, the White House publicly proposed the removal of US troops from Vietnam, earning President Kennedy an enduring reputation as a skeptic on the war. In fact, Kennedy was ambivalent about withdrawal and was largely detached from its planning. Drawing on secret presidential tapes, Marc J. Selverstone reveals that the withdrawal statement gave Kennedy political cover, allowing him to sustain support for US military assistance. Its details were the handiwork of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, whose ownership of the plan distanced it from the president.Selverstone’s use of the presidential tapes, alongside declassified documents, memoirs, and oral histories, lifts the veil on this legend of Camelot. Withdrawal planning was never just about Vietnam as it evolved over the course of fifteen months. For McNamara, it injected greater discipline into the US assistance program. For others, it was a form of leverage over South Vietnam. For the military, it was largely an unwelcome exercise. And for JFK, it allowed him to preserve the US commitment while ostensibly limiting it.The Kennedy Withdrawal offers an inside look at presidential decisionmaking in this liminal period of the Vietnam War and makes clear that portrayals of Kennedy as a dove are overdrawn. His proposed withdrawal was in fact a cagey strategy for keeping the United States involved in the fight—a strategy the country adopted decades later in Afghanistan. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Vietnam War, 1961-1975. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh Cold War. JFK and Vietnam. JFK. John F. Kennedy. Kennedy and Vietnam. LBJ and Vietnam. LBJ. Lyndon B. Johnson. Ngo Dinh Diem. Oliver Stone. Presidential Recording. Robert F. Kennedy. Troop Withdrawal. Vietnam Withdrawal. Vietnamization. White House Tapes. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2022 English 9783110992960 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2022 9783110992939 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110785791 print 9780674270510 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674287549?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674287549 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674287549/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction The Great “What If?” -- 1 Assumption: January 1961–December 1961 -- 2 Escalation: January 1962–June 1962 -- 3 Formulation: July 1962–December 1962 -- 4 Modification: January 1963–April 1963 -- 5 Acceleration: May 1963–August 1963 -- 6 Declaration: September 1963–October 1963 -- 7 Implementation: October 1963–November 1963 -- 8 Cancellation: November 1963–March 1964 -- Epilogue: The Shadow of Camelot -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction The Great “What If?” -- 1 Assumption: January 1961–December 1961 -- 2 Escalation: January 1962–June 1962 -- 3 Formulation: July 1962–December 1962 -- 4 Modification: January 1963–April 1963 -- 5 Acceleration: May 1963–August 1963 -- 6 Declaration: September 1963–October 1963 -- 7 Implementation: October 1963–November 1963 -- 8 Cancellation: November 1963–March 1964 -- Epilogue: The Shadow of Camelot -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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