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Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , that I would only find out by living with it day after day, week after week. This was early 1961. The Kennedy Administration had just come in, and a number of people in and around government had told me in effect, "If you know so goddamn much about
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • obviously. The reason I'm delving on this early period is that you were in a good position to have an impression at least of what the nature of the American commitment in Vietnam was during the latter two years of President Kennedy's tenure and, thus
  • Professional background; Jordan’s two trips to Vietnam; report that the North Vietnamese threat was serious; Kennedy’s 1961-1963 decision to escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam; Jorden’s belief that Kennedy would have followed LBJ course in Vietnam