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...most insidious impact of Viet Nam has been the erosion of trust and confidence in authority. It began at the White House, perhaps in the U.S. complicity in the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. The endlessly repeated official optimism about Viet Nam had dangerous consequences. Always, the "corner had been turned," the end was in sight; stick it out a little longer. In 1969 Henry Kissinger told war protesters, "If we have not ended the war by six months from now, you can come back and tear down the White House fence." Writes Anthony Lake, a young Foreign...
...Thieu knows as well as anybody that his survival rests ultimately with the U.S. Like Diem before him, he could be removed if the U.S. so decreed. Since the Kissinger plan does, indeed, ultimately and inherently decree that, the real question is the manner of his going -with dignity or defiance, restraint or rebellion. The man of caution is being tested as never before...
...more readily into the gregarious California lifestyle. Usually calm and direct, he can be stern at work (after being directed by him in a special, Fred Astaire gave him a bull whip), but he enjoys relaxing with a wide circle of friends. He and his wife-former Actress Peggy Diem, by whom he has a son and a daughter-shuttle between a Spanish-style home in Beverly Hills and a rented beach house at Malibu, where Yorkin occasionally dons an Archie Bunker sweatshirt and barbecues hot dogs for neighbors like the Henry Mancinis. Although, like Lear, he describes himself...
...advanced as much by luck as by leadership. In his early years of political activism, he managed, like the young Nikita Khrushchev, to be absent during periods of party turmoil. Between 1954 and 1956, he began to organize political subversion against the regime of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Le Duan was thus preoccupied with other matters at the time of the North Vietnamese land-reform debacle of 1956, which ended with the summoning of troops to put down a peasant revolt in Nghe An province. The crisis led to the fall of the party's secretary-general...
...member of the infamous Michigan State University project in Vietnam from 1955-1957, I participated in that attempt to create an anti-communist regime in the South. By 1957 it was already clear that the Diem Government was moving towards a police state to offset its declining popularity, and that the massive presence of the U.S. was undermining Diem's legitimacy and encouraging his authoritarian tendencies. That was 15 years, 5 governments and how many dead and maimed Vietnamese ago? Everything we have done over the past 15 years has contributed to destroying the integrity, the rationality and the will...