It should come as no surprise that the “ heroes” of this story are the large number of voices who understood already in 1964 the essential futility of what the United States was trying to do in South Vietnam and who believed that Vietnam was in any case not crucial to American or western security. By the end of that year, the group included most allied governments as well as key members of the Senate Democratic leadership, numerous second-tier officials in the State Department, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, and dozens of editorial writers and columnists across
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