Vietnam and the Presidency
A conference featuring a historic lineup of individuals was recently announced by the JFK library:
Among those participating in the historic two-day conference will be General Alexander Haig; Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; Special Counsel to President Kennedy Theodore Sorensen; Special Assistant to President Johnson Jack Valenti; Senator Chuck Hagel; New York Times columnist Bob Herbert; Ambassador Pete Peterson; professors George Herring, Robert D. Schulzinger, and Marilyn Young; journalists Steve Bell and Dan Rather; Pulitzer Prize-winning authors David Halberstam and Frances Fitzgerald; and historians Michael Beschloss, David Kaiser and Jeffrey Kimball. Former President Jimmy Carter will speak via video and NBC Nightly News anchorman Brian Williams will moderate all of the second day’s sessions.
This looks like a great, educational event, hopefully to be carried on CSPAN or podcasted so that members of the public at large can follow. I hope Halberstam will give a better speech than the one he did here at UNL recently! Also, I do wonder why they didn’t include a Vietnamese perspective on the White House (or for that matter Cambodian or Lao). Surely someone could have been available? What a lost opportunity.
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