"Thus, nothing that has been heard can be retold in the same words."
Thank you, CanSocDem. It was amazing.
One of the important points covered in the discussion and play was Kennedy and his policy toward Vietnam. A member of the audience asked Douglas how he could be so certain that JFK would have pulled U.S. military support from South Vietnam? Douglass quoted Bobby Kennedy, who had been asked the same question by Arthur Schlessinger. RFK pounded the table and shouted:
"Because we were there!"
The Politician: In 1951, JFK (in rear right) in Vietnam on a fact finding tour with the French. Kennedy was critical of U.S. support of the French there, saying, "We have allied ourselves to the desperate effort of a French regime to hang on to the remnants of empire."
ETA Source: http://www.historyplace.com/kennedy/politician-vietnam-tour.htm
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