Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material is available, in the form of declassified documents, memoirs, oral histories and journalistic treatments, to begin to piece… — Fredrik Logevall Copy Share Image
“Try as U.S. officials might to get him to broaden his government, to show more sensitivity to the needs of his people, to show greater tolerance for the expression of political opposition, they got nowhere. Instead Diem, his utter confidence in his own political instincts wholly unimpaired, turned increasingly inward, relying almost exclusively on an ever-shrinking circle of confidants headed… — Fredrik Logevall Copy Share
“America’s intervention, Halberstam said on a later occasion, occurred “in the embers of another colonial war.” — Fredrik Logevall Copy Share Image
Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material is available,… — Fredrik Logevall Copy Share Image
“Only later would the grim tallies for France be known. Between September 1945 and July 1954, Paris sent a total of 489,560 soldiers to… — Fredrik Logevall Copy Share Image
“It’s no surprise that many later analysts, in judging these and other actions and statements by Diem in the course of 1955, depicted him… — Fredrik Logevall Copy Share Image
“And so, seemingly overnight, French political and military influence in South Vietnam withered. On May 20, 1955, French forces withdrew from the Saigon area… — Fredrik Logevall Copy Share Image
