HIST 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Barry Goldwater
Document Summary
Consider whether logevall convinces you jfk was looking forward to what he did: think about what happened in each chapter before you move on. February: ~ beginning of serious preliminary contingency planning of the war into north vietnam and obsessive concern about neutralization and how that concept might gain support among the war-weary. Southern vietnamese: contingency: possible event, something that might happen, logevall added the word serious to concede that it"s more than a contingency plan. Decision-making at the top level in the sixties was falsified and presented in a bad way to the american public. Once diem and nhu were removed, large parts of the south vietnamese efforts collapsed: situation of the south deteriorated, logevall 124: situation is deteriorating, government is falling, us says they should bomb the. North: military folks disagree: bombing north will do nothing. Johnson on march 24 to henry cabot lodge: your mission is to stop vietnamese personalities from publicly advocating neutralization in south vietnam.
