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This 7 page paper talks about Robert S. McNamara -- the United States Secretary of Defense in both the John F.Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson administrations. It discusses his views, his mistakes and what he learned from Vietnam. This cites 1 source.
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America?s involvement in Vietnam. As McNamara points out in the preface to his book, Vietnam tore the country apart in a violent manner and began a cycle of cynicism
that continues to this day. Individuals often learn and grow emotionally from hardship. McNamara states that the rationale for his book is to demonstrate what can be learned by the
country relative to the experience of Vietnam. He does this by revealing to the public, the how and the why of what motivated the decisions of government officials during that
conflict. McNamara begins with Kennedy?s election and gives a personal and intimate account of his first days in Washington. The picture that he paints shows a group of young, patriotic,
intelligent men who are thoroughly devoted to President Kennedy. He traces the involvement of this administration in Vietnam that starts with the critical meeting between Kennedy and President Eisenhower just
prior to Kennedy?s inauguration and proceeds through the political crisis that occurred in Saigon during the summer of 1963. McNamara demonstrates, as he will throughout the book, the thinking processes
that motivated the administration?s decisions. Basically, it all began with two premises that were contradictory?that the fall of South Vietnam to Communist rule would eventually threaten the security of the
West and that US could prevent this with a limited military role that would only provide training and logistical support. That "fateful fall" of 1963 was punctuated by three
pivotal events: the overthrow of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem and his subsequent assassination; the decision to begin withdrawing American troops, which was made by President Kennedy; and Kennedys
assassination just fifty days later. McNamara shows how Diems assassination caught the US government off-guard as it tried to formulate policy to cope with the political vacuum that existed in
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