"...hardly anyone actually read them."
I did too. One thing that struck me was that DoD did *not* seem to think Kennedy had made his mind up on troop pullouts, contrary to received wisdom. He appeared to be keeping his options open.
I will buy this book, but it will not be received well in the MSM. The Vietnam war is one of their touchstones of faith, and the party line is not to be trifled with. I saw Frances FitzGerald and, I believe, Dan Rather (?) on a Vietnam panel on Book TV the other day and it was the same old drivel.
The sad part is that when history is distorted the way the history of the Vietnam war has been, future generations have no reference point from which to make decisions.