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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 645 JFK's Catastrophic Mistake in Vietnam

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The standard narrative runs like this: Ngo Dinh Diem was the corrupt and oppressive president of South Vietnam whose removal (which wound up taking the form of assassination) the Kennedy Administration had no choice but to endorse. On top of everything else, Diem's administration was dominated by Roman Catholics in a predominantly Buddhist country, and his outrageous oppression of Buddhists was another reason he had to go.

I myself believed all this, and even taught it in the classroom. According to our guest, it's bunk.

Show notes for episode 645

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 645.

0:03.5

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0:08.2

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0:14.4

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0:28.9

Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. We've got a really interesting topic for a discussion today.

0:33.5

But because it's a long episode, but you're not going to want to turn it off, I guarantee you.

0:38.7

I do want to make a little announcement toward the beginning.

0:41.7

That is, I'm going to be speaking in Seattle and in Orlando and in the coming months in Boston as well.

0:49.5

And I will have links to information about those events over at tom woods.com on the events page.

0:56.0

You can just go to tom woods.com slash events. The other thing is, remember we had Chris

0:59.8

Gillabo on a couple of weeks ago for his book, Born for this? It's a book about how to find

1:04.7

the work you were meant to do. It was a great conversation. Everybody loved it. He's a great,

1:09.6

really smart guy to talk to. He's doing his own book tour for that book. And I'm going to be in the Denver area when he's going to be in Denver. This week from Friday is going to be April 29, 2016. It's in Denver at the Tattered Cover Bookstore. And it'll be starting at 7 p.m. Well, I'm going to go, because I think Chris is fascinating to listen to. And plus, just from an entrepreneur angle, I want to watch how he does this. Because it's not just a lecture. He has audience participation, and he self-funds these book tours of his. I want to watch a master like this in action. I think it's going to be a lot of fun.

1:45.0

And I'm actually bringing a friend who I think could benefit from what Chris has to say. So if you're

1:49.8

in the Denver area and you happen to see me in the audience, say hello. But definitely go to

1:55.5

Born for Thisbook.com and find the Denver event and or, you know, anywhere around the country that you'd like to

2:01.7

attend, and make sure an RSVP for it, and I hope to see you there. Okay, now let's get on to

2:07.7

the subject for today. Very unusual kind of topic for us, but in a way it's not in that it's

2:13.5

overthrowing a conventional view, and it's a view that I believe for a long time. We're talking about No Dinsiem, who was the Vietnamese leader who was overthrown, you'll recall, in 1963, with the connivance of the Kennedy administration.

2:29.6

And that ushered in a series of, you know, just one military ruler after another and brought

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