HIST 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Strategic Hamlet Program, Nixon White House Tapes, Slut
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Jfk sent advisors (military and propaganda) to all levels of rvn. Kennedy refused to send regular units to vietnam. Pressure in vietnam to send evidence american programs were working. Kennedy publicly committed himself to helping diem through a personal letter: says viet cong has violated the geneva accords, implicitly saying he supports the accords and the enemy does not. Program of assassination, wanton violence, kidnapping - description of communist agenda: david hunt: it was not wanton violence. Journalist: us set up a shadow government to figure out what needed to be done and persuade gov"t of vietnam to do it. Beauty of women was destroyed by mid-20s and by 30s they were hags american man disgusted by vietnamese people. Kennedy"s policy package seemed to work: momentum of liberation front slowed in 1962. Diem and nhu grossly exaggerated success of american programs and us believed it.