VIETNAM POLICY
Kennedy’s Aims
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. President John F. Kennedy’s Vietnam policy would closely parallel the current United States policy if he were alive now, according to Mr Pierre Salinger, the late President’s White House press secretary. Mr Salinger said on a television news programme that the “preponderance of advice to President Kennedy during his administration was against a major land war in Asia,” but that the Vietnamese war escalated in 1964, a year after the President was assassinated. “What he would have done in the face of such escalation by North Vietnam, we cannot project for him,” Mr Salinger said. “But we must consider it in the light of his commitment to an American presence there. That commitment was clear.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31145, 23 August 1966, Page 17
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