Vietnam : the early decisions / edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Ted Gittinger.

Contributor Gardner, Lloyd C., 1934-

Imprint:Austin : University of Texas Press, c1997.

Description228 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:Vietnam: an episode in the Cold War / Robert A. Divine -- A way of thinking: the Kennedy administration's initial assumptions about Vietnam and their consequences / Brian VanDeMark -- From the Colorado to the Mekong / Lloyd C. Garner -- Hanoi's response to American policy, 1961-1965: crossed signals? / William J. Duiker -- The Zen of escalation: containment and commitment in Southeast Asia / John Prados -- Conspiracy of silence; LBJ, the joint chiefs, and escalation of the war in Vietnam / George C. Herring -- Lyndon Johnson and the legacy of Vietnam / William Conrad Gibbons -- The Kennedy-Johnson transition: the case for policy reversal / John M. Newman -- NSAM263 and NSAM 273: manipulating history / Larry Berman -- Turnabout? the Soviet policy dilemma in the Vietnamese conflict / Ilya V. Gaiduk.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:Papers from a conference at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas, in October of 1993, to consider the question: "what if Kennedy had lived?" and to speculate on what might have happened in/with Vietnam.

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