[Barset]

Do you know where the "order to draw down troops in Nam" can be located right now? Is it at the Kennedy Library or elsewhere?

It is astonishing to read that Mrs. Johnson owns half of Brown and Root.

It is not surprising to see President Johnson trashed; Democrats loathed Johnson, demonized him after President Kennedy's murder, and have been blowing smoke up history's leg ever since in an attempt to deify President Kennedy while obscuring the facts of Kennedy's indifference to the war, and his complicity in the murder of Vietnam's president, our ally.

It might be of interest to learn what Kruschev said about Kennedy after their meeting in Vienna. Kruschev's sympathies were entirely with the American people.

[justshutupandtakeit]

There is a good discussion of it in Fletcher Prouty's book JFK. He was liason between CIA and Joints Chiefs and a briefer for JFK. This was a National Security Memoradum which reversed the slow buildup going on in Vietnam and was immediately voided when Johnson took over.

It is false that Kennedy encouraged the killing of the Diem brothers. Part of the problem was that the Intelligence operatives in this arena were not under any higher control than themselves and often acted without authorization. And much was hidden from the President.