President Kennedy, as other people have actually written, had been a reluctant warrior in Vietnam.
* while he feared being tagged as the man who lost Vietnam, he saw the war as unwinnable and planned to extract United States forces in 1965 while he believed that Southeast Asian countries might fall to the Communists like dominoes, and. By Mr. Hersh’s reckoning when you look at the guide, this wait ended up being immoral, the President placing their re-election ”ahead of this wellbeing of soldiers and civilians. ”
*A few top C.I.A. Officials discovered that Richard M. Nixon had accepted a bribe in 1951. In substitution for a $100,000 check put into his individual account, Mr. Nixon attempted, albeit unsuccessfully, to obtain residency that is permanent for a Romanian industrialist, Nicolae Malaxa.
*Before Jacqueline Bouvier to his high-society nuptials, John F. Kennedy ended up being hitched up to a Palm Beach socialite called Durie Malcolm. The couple stayed together scarcely on a daily basis. A longtime Kennedy friend who said he personally expunged any public record of the 1947 marriage for evidence, Mr. Hersh quotes Charles Spalding. Read More »