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Kennedy changed his views on foreign policy when he was president
and adopted and espoused policy that was going to put them out of
business because he wanted to seek peace with the Russians. He wanted
to get along with the Cubans. He wanted to pull the troops out of
Vietnam. And he was going to dismantle the war machine. He didn't
go into the presidency with that agenda but I think, and as Jim
Douglas in his book, JFK and the Unspeakable, shows so clearly,
that the pivotal event was the Cuban Missile Crisis. And with that,
that's the closest the world's ever come to nuclear war.
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And then he
let it be known that he was going to pull the troops out of Vietnam.
And when he was – shortly before he was killed, he put out a national
security memorandum – I think it was 263 – saying he was going to
start withdrawing troops. And he planned, once he was reelected,
to take them all out. And at the time, there were 17,000 troops.
There had been 90 deaths. After he was killed, within a week, Johnson
put out a new memorandum that escalated the war and we wound up
with 58,000 deaths, 200,000 suicides as a result of soldiers doing
tours there, and 3.8 million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians,
all of which, had Kennedy lived – it wasn't just Kennedy, this one
president being killed, but it was all this huge number of humanity
that went down with him as a result.
Kennedy changed his views on foreign policy when he was president
and adopted and espoused policy that was going to put them out of
business because he wanted to seek peace with the Russians. He wanted
to get along with the Cubans. He wanted to pull the troops out of
Vietnam. And he was going to dismantle the war machine. He didn't
go into the presidency with that agenda but I think, and as Jim
Douglas in his book, JFK and the Unspeakable, shows so clearly,
that the pivotal event was the Cuban Missile Crisis. And with that,
that's the closest the world's ever come to nuclear war.
_____________________________________________________________
And then he
let it be known that he was going to pull the troops out of Vietnam.
And when he was – shortly before he was killed, he put out a national
security memorandum – I think it was 263 – saying he was going to
start withdrawing troops. And he planned, once he was reelected,
to take them all out. And at the time, there were 17,000 troops.
There had been 90 deaths. After he was killed, within a week, Johnson
put out a new memorandum that escalated the war and we wound up
with 58,000 deaths, 200,000 suicides as a result of soldiers doing
tours there, and 3.8 million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians,
all of which, had Kennedy lived – it wasn't just Kennedy, this one
president being killed, but it was all this huge number of humanity
that went down with him as a result.
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