An enticing proposal that might have had a good chance of resolving the Vietnam conflict before the eruption of major war—that is how one might describe the push in July 1964 for a reconvened Geneva conference. In this way the summer of 1964 was like the summer of 1963, a time of missed opportunity for a political solution to the conflict. But also as in 1963, it was a solution that never really had a chance of being realized, despite the momentum behind it in much of the international community.
