* The Truth Taboo for 58,272 Dead

"The truth, that the fate of  Vietnam, of crucial importance to the Vietnamese, was of little consequence to America, or to its struggle with the Soviet Union, was simply a taboo statement on every side [during the 1960's].
(p. 107)

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Adam Gopnik
from his article on JFK

 "CLOSER THAN THAT"

The New Yorker