The thirty-fifth president of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was a determined man pushing to make great changes for the nation. Coming from Massachusetts, he would have a long journey before he would even step into the White House. Although his father's original plan did not ...
We were afraid that the domino affect would happen, where if one country fell to communism many more would follow. ... "Diem labored under certain disadvantages: he had left Vietnam in August 1950 and had thus played no part in the glorious struggle against the French, living in America for most of that period; he had few political allies and was hesitant to trust anyone except members of his own powerful family; he was aloof and distant, a man with no popular following and neither inclined nor equipped to acquire one; and he was a devout Catholic in a Vietnam that was less than 15 percent Cat...
