Pentagon papers shaped U.S. view of Vietnam era
A review of the Pentagon papers traces how postwar U.S. leaders built a containment strategy aimed at China and the wider Cold War, driven by memories of world wars and fears of appeasement. It notes presidents from Truman to Johnson pursued riskier actions, hid private limits from Congress, and faced a reluctance to admit the Vietnam dilemma to the public.
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Pentagon
Economist of
London
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ren. Frank Church
Idaho
Star
Vietnam
Washington
Fauhery S. Truman
Davight D. Eisenhower
John Ken
Congress
Wilson
Roosevelt
Germany
Bpan
Czechoslovakia
Adolf Tiller
Munich
Fense
South Korea
China
Comptunism
Korea
Knaves
White House
Cuba
Truman
Johnson
Dragon Lady cites two anti-Diem coup attempts by U S
Madame Nhu known as the Dragon Lady asserts in a Paris interview aired in the United States that the United States participated in a coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and in a similar failed plot a year earlier. She cites Pentagon papers indicating tacit Kennedy administration approval and alleges U S bombed Diem palace or directed bombing while criticizing U S actions and Buddhist crackdown linked to the 1963 coup.
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Dragon Lady
U.S
New York
Neo Dinh Nhu
Ngo Dinh Diem
United States
Diem
Madame Nhu
Paris
Pentagon
Dien
North Vietnam
International Control Commission
Howeryvel
South Vietnam
Bunker blueprint for Viet revealed
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports mid 1967 Pentagon memo by Ambassador Gowker detailing a plan to expand the Vietnam effort after elections. It calls for sustained pressure, increased southern military activity, and bombing to defeat the enemy, with targets tied to the war effort and caution about escalation.
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ST. Louis
Llsworth Gowker
Vietnam
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Bunker
Pentagon
Pope
United States
Worthy
Mene
Chief Asks Viet Probe Urges National Commission
Former U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials Telford Taylor urged President Nixon and Congress to form a national commission to probe the origins and conduct of the Vietnam War. He argued such an inquiry is more urgent than pursuing war crimes prosecutions and noted shifts from earlier statements about prosecuting leaders.
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Telford
Taylor
United States
Nixon
Congress
Columbia Law School
Taylor Creatde
Wilkin ©. Westmoreland
Army
Vietnam
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NBC
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Haive
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