Special thanks to future President Bill Murphy and his cabinet for keeping everything on track making arrangements and guiding us through the festivities.
Wouldn't you like to see Murphy in the Oval Office next time we get together? (Oh well, if you lose your dreams, you’ll lose your mind.)
This month was a most fateful time in 1963. Beginning with the first day, when Viet Nam president Ngo Dinh Diem and his chief advisor and brother Ngo Dinh Nhu were deposed and assassinated. An interesting analysis in today’s Wall Street Journal by Mark Moyar "JFK and the Seeds of Disaster in Vietnam." Moyar believes that politics supplanted policy and caused the U.S. to back the insurgents notwithstanding that Diem had essentially a stable regime and had been able to hold the Viet Cong at bay for eight years. This resulted in a series of unstable governments that ultimately required U.S. combat troops to keep afloat, ultimately a futile endeavor. See Moyar's article in the WSJ here.
