Adviser Quote by Robert Dallek

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell.…

— Kevin Costner

Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.

— Robert Dallek

Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.'s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the U.S. presence…

— Robert Dallek

Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of…

— Kitty Kelley

The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election,…

— Rick Perlstein

“The United States became engaged in hostilities with North Vietnam on November 1, 1955, when President Eisenhower deployed the Military Assistance Advisory Group as…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

“Although Nixon stepped up military pressure by bombing heavily and greatly expanding South Vietnamese forces, the enemy did not bend. Nor did détente with…

— James T. Patterson

At the beginning of his administration, Reagan tried set the basis for American military intervention in El Salvador - which is about what Kennedy…

— Noam Chomsky

I did not feel - in President [J.F.] Kennedy's words - that we could win the war for [the government in Saigon]. When I…

— William J. Duiker

You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the…

— Alexander Haig

When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American…

— Samantha Power

From 1962 to 1965 the US was dedicated to try to prevent the independence of South Vietnam, the reason was of course that Kennedy…

— Noam Chomsky