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Did US president John F Kennedy ... involvement in Vietnam, the US deployed 100,000 troops in 1965 – with more than 530,000 in country by 1968 – and a decade of carnage was under way.

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Rory Kennedy ... Days in Vietnam,” says that the movie is especially relevant as President Obama asks Congress for authorization to fight ISIS, posing a potential expansion of U.S. involvement ...

Lies like McNamara’s were the rule, not the exception, throughout America’s involvement in Vietnam ... As secretary of defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B.

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