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OCR Page 1 of 72700 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana 70119
June 26, 1970
Mr. Arthur- Fields
G. P. Putnam's Sons
200 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10016
Dear Mr. Fields:
I enjoyed talking with you the other day.
Enclosed is the additional biographical material we discussed.
One thing concerns me. That is the general impression people have
acquired -- or have been given -- that John Kennedy was merely just
another escalating President and that Lyndon Johnson was simply
carrying on what Eisenhower and Kennedy did. The evidence showing
that Kennedy was an anti-war president and that he refused to
escalate in Viet Nam -- even against the pressure of the Joint
Chiefs -- is quite solid and irrefutable. However, you have to
look at 1963 and 1964 research materials to find this.
In recent years that bit of history has been re-written. One after
the other the columnists refer to Kennedy as being -- with regard
to Viet Nam -- just an early Johnson. Johnson, these people seem
to believe, was merely carrying on. Even well informed commentators
such as Eric Sevareid now seem to take that for granted.
Recently I researched that point -- that crucial point -- again.
The record is explicit and clear -- that Kennedy was stubbornly
blocking any further expansion in Indo-China, that plans even were
under way -- not to send a half million more troops -- but to bring
home the advisors we had over there.
My thought is this. We can assume that there will be attacks on
the book from some quarters. This is most likely the only area left
to attack because the footnotes, as you know, were confirmed
separately by an objective reviewer. (Even good material was
discarded when there was the slightest question about it) . The
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