Situation on arrival in Vietnam as Ambassador; Chief of MAAG; General McGarr; Taylor-Rostow mission; Ed Lansdale; task force chaired by Roswell Gilpatric; impressions after traveling in the provinces; Viet Cong tenacity; Colonel John Paul Vann; pacification; significance of Nolting’s absence during Buddhist crisis; support of Diem; Ngo Dinh Nhu; Madame Nhu; William Colby and the CIA; Ambassador Nolting and General Paul Harkins; LBJ and the Vietnam situation.
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