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John F. Kennedy
The Kennedy Withdrawal
Andy Pham
Episode 2659 will honor the memory of President John F. Kennedy on this day, the 60th anniversary of his assassination. We will be joined by Andy Pham, a good friend of this podcast to relate how President Kennedy and his death had an effect on all Vietnam Veterans.
To help understand that connection between President Kennedy and Vietnam Veterans, Episode 2430 will be replayed in this episode. In that episode, the book titled: The Kennedy Withdrawal along with its author will be featured.
The book to be discussed in this episode of titled: The Kennedy Withdrawal. It was written by Dr. Marc J. Selverstone. The book provides a major revision of our understanding of JFK’s commitment to Vietnam, revealing that his administration’s plan to withdraw was a political device, the effect of which was to manage public opinion while preserving US military assistance.
Dr. Marc Selverstone is an associate professor in Presidential Studies at the Miller Center and chair of the Center’s Presidential Recordings Program. He earned a BA degree in philosophy from Trinity College (CT), a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University, and a PhD in history from Ohio University. A historian of the Cold War, he is the author of Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945-1950 (Harvard), which won the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
One of the Professor Meredith H. Lair
Prof. Lair’s work examines warfare and its relationship to American society and culture, with particular emphasis on how knowledge and memories of the past are constructed and disseminated over time. She is the author of Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War, which examines the non-combat experiences of American soldiers in Vietnam.
One of the interlocutors in this episode is Professor Meredith H. Lair. Her works examine warfare and its relationship to American society and culture, with particular emphasis on how knowledge and memories of the past are constructed and disseminated over time. She is the author of Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War, which examines the non-combat experiences of American soldiers in Vietnam.
The other interlocutor is Dr. Sean McLaughlin of Murray State University.
Listen to Episode 2659 and honor the memory of President Kennedy.
