Word: halberstam
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...Halberstam is the author of "The Best and the Brightest," an analysis of the Vietnam War. But last night he spoke more about the loss of faith and loss of confidence of the American people in the "best and the brightest" of the nation's leaders. He addressed himself to the how and why of the nation's involvement in Indochina...
...Halberstam defended former President John F. Kennedy '40, for his candor and insight, concerning the war in Southeast. Asis but said that "his perceptions were much stronger than his willingness to act upon them...
...said that Johnson was concerned with keeping Congress on his side. "He wanted to have the Great Society work and thought perhaps that the war might get lost in the shuffle," he said. Halberstam attributed the escalation left over from the McCarthy era and a sense of American superiority...
...Halberstam said that he thought presidential advisor Henry Kissinger meant and believed his pre-election message that "peace is at hand," because at the time the U.S. was closer to Hanoi than to Saigon...
Nixon, however, interpreted the flexibility of the North Vietnamese as weakness, "and so we went through these terrifying weeks with Congress out of session. In one week more bombs were dropped on North Vietnam than Germany dropped on London during the entire World War," Halberstam said...