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John F. Kennedy's reallyinteresting on the Vietnam story.
Because what he says is ineffect any Western power
that seeks to defeat thisrevolution by military means
is destined to lose.
But there's a paradoxbecause that same Kennedy
expands Americaninvolvement substantially.
We were hoping that the United States
would stay and defend Vietnam.
Kennedy certainly reassuredus he was beginning
to up the ante, he wassending more equipment,
more arms, more advisers.
In the early part of 1964, Johnson I think
is getting frustratedand I think he's decided
from the day he comesinto power after Kennedy's
assassination that hewill not be the president
who lost to Vietnam.
Ultimately PresidentJohnson decides that they
have to intervene militarilyand the decision's
made to start with air power.
Operation Rolling Thunder was a mistake
because it did not take into account
the psychology of the North Vietnamese.
They explained the bombing as an obvious
attempt by the US to take over control
and act just as the Frenchhad acted many years before.
The anti-war movementhad kind of gone through
what I think of as beinga period where folks
in the movement thoughtwell we can just convince
our leaders that there's been a mistake.
You know that this was a terrible idea
and if they knew everythingwe knew they would
realize the errors of their ways.
But that wasn't working.
In late '67 General Westmoreland says
we have reached an important moment when
the end begins to come into view.
Meanwhile, the NorthVietnamese are planning
what becomes known as the Tet Offensive.
The message of the Tet Offensive to
the American administrationand to the American
people is yes unless you continue not only
continue at this level,unless you sink more
into this war, you're not going to win.
Tet represented a defeatfor Lyndon Johnson.
In the aftermath of Tethe comes to a decision
that he's not gonna runfor re-election in 1968.
Nixon was elected in the '68 election
sort of intimating he had a secret plan
to end the war. In fact he didn't have
a secret plan he had someamorphous ideas about
how to withdraw from Vietnam.
Behind the scenes I think you see a Nixon
that has come to see Vietnam as an example
of the limitations of American policy.
And when he doesarticulate what will become
known as the Nixon doctrine,
I think that doctrineis in fact an admission
that there are limits to American power.
When the Paris peace accords are signed
with the ceasefire in place,
it leaves all of thoseNorth Vietnamese troops
still in South Vietnam.
In mid '74 Nixon is embroiled in Watergate
dealing with a very confronting Congress,
US military aid is reduced.
Nixon who made 31 promisesthat the United States
would be there for SouthVietnam in early August
finds himself out of office and disgraced.
An excerpt from the full exhibit video on display until January 6, 2019 at the National Archives and Records Administration building's Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery.