Word: kattenburg
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...Diem's government was doomed. At 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 1, Diem telephoned Lodge; it was the last contact any American had with Diem before his assassination the following day. WITHDRAWAL ADVICE. In an August 1963 session of the National Security Council, State Department Expert Paul M. Kattenburg recommended that the U.S. withdraw from Viet Nam completely. The suggestion was spurned by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; in the months that followed, the Diem coup and the deteriorating ability of the South Vietnamese to thwart the Viet Cong insurgency carried America into...
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