Uncle Sam Needs Your Help Again (Fall 2006)

Persons and Events in Karnow's Vietnam: A History, pp. 221-327.

Cast of figures:

Vietnamese:

Ngo Dinh Diem (known as Diem)

Ngo Dinh Nhu

Madame Nhu

“the generals”

Americans:

Colonel Edward Lansdale

Lt. Col. Lucien Conein

Gen. Maxwell Taylor

John Paul Vann

SecDefense Robert McNamara

SecState Dean Rusk

Sen. Mike Mansfield

Amb. Henry Cabot Lodge

Ap Bac village encounter, Jan. 1963.

Hisman memo, August 1963

Journal excerpts:

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