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He emphasized this should be so particularly in "civil disturbances
created by guerillas. Stone sums up by saying "What both Eisenhower
and Kennedy refused to do Johnson has now done. He has landed U.S.
combat troops in Asia. 1: (I.E. Stone's Weekly, March 15, 1965)
This militarization of our policy was in the planning stages long
before it was supposed to have been brought about by external forces.
Thus at the very time President Johnson was posing as a peace
candidate against Barry Goldwater, Charles Roberts, had informed
us in his book LBJ's Inner Circle 11 that he had already planned
to eScalate the war. The plans to escalate the war to North
Vietnam were made, according to this account, in October 1964.
One can never be sure about what a man would have done had
he lived longer. Perhaps, President Kennedy would have escalated
the war in Vietnam. Yet, the evidence we have, while not by any
means air tight, certainly suggests Kennedy would not have mil-
itarized the war. It strongly suggests the very opposite. He
was not so permissive with the military and moubling questions
were raising themselves to him over the war in Vietnam. At the
time of his death the door was open to peace in Vietnam. In the
light of what appears to have been his changing attitude, there
is reason to believe he would at least have explored the possibility
of walking through it. After his assassination, however, the door
was securely closed.
-61-
1. Roberts, Charles, LBJ's Inner Circle, pp. 20-22,
1
61
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