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President Johnson further declared that the assassination of Mr.
Kennedy "....did not alter his nation's purpose. il
But, the nation's purpose with respect to the very matter
President Johnson was addressing himself to was already being
very substantially altered, and a step backward away from the path
of peace was being taken. In September of 1963 President Kennedy
had stated that the war was for the Vietnamese to win or lose. It
was not to be an American war. Arthur Schlesinger tells us:
"President Kennedy did not believe the
war in Vietnam could succeed as a war of
white men against Asians. It could not
be won, 'he said, a few weeks before his
death, 1 unless the people(of South
Vietnam) support the effort We can
help them, we can give them equipment, we
can send our men as their advisors, but
they have to win it, the people of Vietnah.
And Senator Morse has apprised us of the fact that PMr. Kennedy
told him 10 days before he was felled by an assassin's bullet in
Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 that he was reexaming Viet Nam Policy. 113
More revealing, however, is what we are told in the excellent
study of negotiations, The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam:
"It is important to recall, in this
regard, the stated irtention of the
Kennedy administration, as announced by
McNamara and Taylor from the White House
on October 2, 1963, which was to withdraw
most U.S. Forces from South Vietnam by the
end of 1965
-57-
1. The New York Times, Dec. 18, 1963.
2. Schlesinger, Jr. Arthur M. A Middle Way out of Vietnam,
"New York Times Magazine, Sept. 18, 1966, p. 114.
3. The Phildelphia Inquirier, April 25, 1966.
57
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