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Defending the Free World: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and the Vietnam War, 1961-1965
Book by Orrin Schwab; Praeger, 1998
Subjects: Johnson, Lyndon B--(Lyndon Baines)--1908-1973, Kennedy, John F--(John Fitzgerald)--1917-1963, United States--Foreign Relations--1961-1963, United States--Foreign Relations--1963-1969, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--United States
...paper) 1. Vietnamese Conflict, 19G1-1975-United States. 2. United States-Foreignrelations- 1961-1963. 3. United States-Foreign relations...was more than a bilateral or regional conflict; but in fact, it was a global one. How...Vietnam. The Sino-Soviet split, North Vietnamese strategy, the Strategic Hamlet program...
2.
John F. Kennedy on Leadership: The Lessons and Legacy of a President
Book by John A. Barnes; AMACOM, 2005
Subjects: Communication In Management--Case Studies, Crisis Management--Case Studies, Decision Making--Case Studies, Kennedy, John F--(John Fitzgerald)--1917-1963, Leadership--Case Studies, Teams In The Workplace--Case Studies
...the Democratic party. As such, John F. Kennedy needed the support of most of...politically. Investigating Union Leadership At one point, Jack Kennedy was...powerfully affects the rest of your leadership. One reason for paying attention...and more responsi- bility. John F. Kennedy pioneered the use of style in...subsequently come to be seen that way. John F. Kennedy was among the latter. A glance...equipped to develop a charismatic leadership style. It is also true that...
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In a Perilous Hour: The Public Address of John F. Kennedy
Book by Steven R. Goldzwig, George N. Dionisopoulos; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Kennedy, John F--(John Fitzgerald)--1917-1963--Oratory, Political Oratory--United States, United States--Politics And Government--1961-1963
...from Allen Nevins, Douglas Dillon, Arthur Goldberg, David Lloyd, Adlai Stevenson, Joseph Kraft, Dean Rusk, John Kenneth Galbraith, Chester Bowles and Fred Dutton. The wire also had the names Myer "Feldman" and Richard...major suggestions. Those numbered 9 and 11 were crossed out-- apparently the work of some other adviser in the Kennedy camp. The deleted passages included advice to announce to the world that we would "liquidate overseas military bases as fast as progress towards disarmament makes this possible" and "perhaps" provide "a conditioned hint of...Stevenson wrote: "The main thing of course is to create the impression of new, bold, imaginative, purposeful leadership; to de-emphasize the bi-polar power struggle; and to emphasize the affirmative approaches to peace. In this connection...
4.
John F. Kennedy and Israel
Book by Herbert M. Druks; Praeger Security International, 2005
Subjects: Israel--Foreign Relations--United States, Kennedy, John F--(John Fitzgerald)--1917-1963, United States--Foreign Relations--1961-1963, United States--Foreign Relations--Israel
...present a solution based on two vague, indefinite and conflicting promises, such as High Commissioner Sir Henry MacMahons...but what I intend to ask of them And on April 19, 1961, he defined his New Frontier as expressing our feeling...
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John F. Kennedy
Book by Peter Schwab, J. Lee Shneidman; Twayne Publishers, 1974
Subjects: Kennedy, John F--(John Fitzgerald)--1917-1963
...an eight-page reply to Hopkinss article. The paper is called "Lets Try an Experiment in Peace by Lieut. John F. Kennedy U.S.N." The top of the first page has in parenthesis "the author of the fol lowing recipe for preventing another war wears the Navy and Marine Corps medal for his own part in the war." The article was never published. John Kennedy, however, never forgot the arguments he presented in the article: "We must realize that our chances...world. Furthermore, any challenge to what the United States considered its security must be met with a show of military force. About the time Kennedy wrote the unpublished article, he went to work for the Hearst Press. His first...when he was present he was vocal, articulate, and paid little attention to the wishes of the Democratic Party leadership. Despite his vast fortune, Ken nedy, on domestic issues, voted with the liberals in favor of the underprivileged...
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The Lust of the Eye: Michael Herr, Gloria Emerson and the Art of Observation
Journal article by Maria S. Bonn; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 29, 1993
Subjects: Emerson, Gloria--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Herr, Michael--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...the war as a noble cause - and of a military revisionism - the contention that...to Vietnam with their heads full of John Wayne. (And perhaps sent another generation...Emersons Winners and Losers and Francis Fitzgeralds Fire in the Lake," Beidler revises...Emersons Winners and Losers and Frances Fitzgeralds Fire in the Lake." Genre 21 (Winter...Harpers Apr. 1973: 34-5. Hellman, John. Fables of Fact: The New Journalism...1977. New York: Avon 1978. Hollowell, John. Fact and Fiction: The New Journalism...
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MIA: African American Autobiography of the Vietnam War
Journal article by Jeff Loeb; African American Review, Vol. 31, 1997
Subjects: Authors, Black--Evaluation, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, in literature--Social aspects, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
...both POWs, were published in 1975, within two years of the authors...transportation to Hanoi by the North Vietnamese, and the bulk of the book is...for Vietnam. The dynamic of conflict over the issue of nonviolence...Herrs Dispatches (1980), and John M. Del Vecchios The 13th Valley...
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A Voice from the Wilderness: Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War, 1964-1966
Journal article by Andrew L. Johns; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 29, 1999
Subjects: Johnson, Lyndon B.--Military policy, Nixon, Richard M.--Military policy, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Political aspects
...fall of Saigon in 1975--an understanding...American presence in the conflict in Southeast Asia...Maxwell Taylor in 1961 and returned "full...the basis of South Vietnamese freedom. This was...responsibility. Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, McNamara...Vietnam from the military incursions of the...American Foreign Policy, 1963-1968 (New York: Cambridge...Lyndon Johnson to John S. Knight, February...Candidacy Revisited, 1963-1964," Presidential...Cuba, Castro and John E Kennedy: Some Reflections...desire to increase our military, diplomatic and economic...
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Forgotten Women? Did Americans Care about Wives of American Servicemen in Vietnam
Journal article by Elizabeth Brown; Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, Vol. 18, 2000
Subjects: Military wives--Media coverage, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Social aspects
...serving in Vietnam, 1961 to 1975, began with a search...Articles about black, Vietnamese, and other foreign...reflected doubt and conflict among the wives that...Richard I. Ridenour. The Military Family: Dynamics and...wife," Look, June 4, 1963, 26; "The Vietnam Crisis...Enrico Sarsini and John Loengard, "Vietnam...March 18, 1968. (17.) John Gregory Dunne, "Points...the War in Vietnam: 1963-1975. New York: Doubleday...
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Achilles' Heel: The Vietnam War and George Romney's Bid for the Presidency, 1967 to 1968
Journal article by Andrew L. Johns; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 26, 2000
Subjects: Presidential candidates--Political activity, Republican Party--Political activity, Romney, George--Military policy, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Political aspects
...Senatorial Series II, 1956-1972, box 665, William Miller File, John Sherman Cooper Papers, Modern Political Archives, University...such analysis can be properly utility. ed. See Logevall, "Kennedy, Vietnam, and the Question of What Might Have Been," in Kennedy: The New Frontier Revisited, ed. MarkJ. White (New york. New...
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Apocalypse. Again: The Vietnam War Has Possessed the Imaginations of Film-Makers for a Quarter of a Century. but One Hellish Vision of the Conflict Still Dominates the Canon
Magazine article by Philip Kerr; New Statesman, Vol. 130, November 26, 2001
Subjects: Apocalypse Now (Motion picture)--Appreciation, Coppola, Francis Ford--Appreciation, Motion picture industry--Products, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...can be no one who now believes that US involvement in Vietnam was anything but a disaster, both for America and for the Vietnamese. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that, for most non-Americans at least, opinion of the war has been shaped by Hollywood...
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Vietnamese Buddhism in the 1990s
Magazine article by Robert Topmiller; Cross Currents, Spring-Summer 2000
Subjects: Buddhism--Vietnam, Religion and state--Vietnam, Vietnam--Religion, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Social aspects
...from the world. These conflicts have often operated...commitment to confront Vietnamese Communism accelerated...Communist takeover in 1975 exacerbated the problem...desperately needs their leadership to address the considerable...and imprisoning its leadership. He claims it remains...
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Beat the Devil
Magazine article by Alexander Cockburn; The Nation, Vol. 253, December 23, 1991
Subjects: Hostage negotiations--Ethical aspects, Hostages--Lebanon, Pearl Harbor, Attack on, 1941--History, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--History
...began thirty years ago, on December 11, 1961, when, on the orders of President Kennedy...Staley Plan as disclosed by the North Vietnamese in 1962 (though scanted by the "Pentagon...Tired of anniversaries? On December 7, 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor, commencing...
4.
Good Morning, Vietnam: On the Long Road to Freedom and Prosperity, Vietnam Is Taking the First Halting Steps
Magazine article by William Mcgurn; National Review, Vol. 47, May 15, 1995
Subjects: Economic development--Vietnam, Vietnam--Social aspects, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Influence
...quite turned out the way it looked back in 1975. The greenback might be shrinking everywhere...nominally owns all land, and until the Vietnamese clarify these and other issues most of...these changes are visible. As far back as 1961, Lyndon Johnson, returning from a fact-finding...
5.
Indochina Revisited; the Demise of Liberal Internationalism
Magazine article by John P. Roche; National Review, Vol. 37, May 3, 1985
Subjects: Ho Chi Minh--Political activity, Martin, Graham--Personal narratives, Ngo Dinh Diem--Political activity, United States, United States foreign relations--Vietnam, Vietnam--Political aspects, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--History, Vietnamese foreign relations--United States
...machinations of the Greek gods that in 1975 featured Graham Martin, obviously broken-hearted...In the sixties and Seventies our Vietnamese commitment was constantly criticized...but the notion reached full bloom in 1961 with the advent of John F. Kennedy...priority was Vietnam. Johnson was torn by conflicting viewpoints: Ambassador Maxwell Taylor...
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Battle Lines; Night & Day
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 16, 1996
...seems - though it was really April 28, 1975 - that my last night in Saigon, South...or bugout as we used to say. The North Vietnamese tanks, still 20 miles from the city...Prochnaus study runs from November 1961, when Associated Press set up a Saigon...the North alone. The basic ideological conflict - nationalism versus some progress toward...


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Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...FITZGERALD 1917 63, 35th President of the United States (1961 63), b. Brookline, Mass.; son of Joseph P. Kennedy...administration perceived a growing Communist threat to the South Vietnamese government; it steadily increased the number of U.S. military...
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United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...part of a broader Middle East peace initiative. Military aspects of the plan were received with skepticism by U.S. military experts, but the president ultimately choose to increase U.S. forces in Iraq temporarily, beginning in Jan., 2007...to the United States. Bibliography The writings on American history are voluminous. Useful bibliographies are F. Freidel and R. K. Showman, ed., Harvard Guide to American History (2 vol., rev. ed. 1974) and C. Fitzgerald, ed., American History: A Bibliographic Review (4 vol., 1986 89). Major Historians and Works Some of the classic...Adams , C. M. Andrews , George Bancroft , Charles A. Beard , Carl L. Becker , G. L. Beer , Alfred Chandler, John Fiske , Eugene Genovese, Herbert Gutman, J. B. McMaster , H. L. Osgood , Francis Parkman , Vernon Louis...of the United States (1972); R. E. Spiller et al., ed., Literary History of the United States (3d ed. 3 vol., 1963 72); M. E. Armbruster, The Presidents of the United States and Their Administrations from Washington to Nixon...
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Vietnam War
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...into a limited international conflict in which the United States...Vietnams successful offensive in 1975 resulted in South Vietnams...1960. U.S. Involvement In 1961, South Vietnam signed a military...defeat the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces. Optimistic U.S. military...The Necessary War (1999); F. Logevall, Choosing War: The...
4.
Vietnam
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Diem for democratic reforms. In Apr., 1961, Diem was reelected president, but many...In 1964 regular units of the North Vietnamese army began infiltrating into South Vietnam...Chi Minh Trail in Laos. The guerrilla conflict expanded into open warfare. The United...to permit him to seek a third term in 1975, at the same time increasing that term...


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