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Policymaker Ignorance and the Vietnam War, Part 2: The Kennedy Years

Policymaker Ignorance and the Vietnam War, Part 2: The Kennedy Years31. März 202540 Min.

Scott discusses the catastrophic reign of Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, the emergence of the Viet Cong and development of the Ho Chi Minh trail, and the calamitous technocratic approach of the Kennedy administration to the Vietnam imbroglio.

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