I am not knowledgeable enough to comment. I know the issues with the Eisner era that did not need to happen, but I can't say what another person would have done things.
To hone my inner Nixon, "let me just say this...". And to hone my inner self, please bear with my run on sentences. I cannot summarize the ideas any more densely.
I've come to feel that the narrative of the Cold War focused on the United States, Europe, the Soviets, and China, where the regions...
The Cold War would still happen. The Soviets are already keeping their temporary occupations in place, installing Communist dictatorships and creating satellite states. The Soviets do not trust the West, and the West does not trust the Soviets. Berlin is already a flashpoint. Without Korea or...
Resentment and spite are the scourge of the individual person in this existence: taking poison daily to kill another and convincing others to do the same. Fighting ghosts that you created within you and hating the ghost while also making that ghost and feeding it to keep it alive. Crafting a...
It may not even be in the (early draft of the) book so much as something that came out as part of the fallout and arguments around the book that became a national discussion in itself when the Kennedy family tried to block (parts) of it. Honestly, I cannot remember.
To your second point: that's...
You could have Goldwater in 1968 but you would also very likely simply still get Nixon but with Goldwater taking the Reagan role in that year. That affects Reagan's career arc. That's more a wind up Butterfly than an immediate Butterfly.
Thank you. It's not a matter of depression
as accurate. Pragmatism is accurate. Depression accepts the bad, makes it dominant and exclusive and sees it as terminal and lets it be a monster of dread and anxiety without bonds of context. I do not mean to demean the seriousness of depression by...
I'll throw my hat onto the heap here on the comment that everyone is quoting and responding to.
'Socialism' to the Nazis was not Marxism, Christian Socialism or anything relatable. To Strasser perhaps, but not to Hitler. They saw Marxism as a perversion of it. 'Socialism' to them was a word...
https://www.commentary.org/articles/hans-morgenthau/vietnam-another-korea/
I share this because Morgentau is worth sharing. This is from 1962. It is prescient of the future, stunning in its predictions and a show that these concerns were present in certain circles. There was not ignorance...
I would recommend making a new thread. Even low-post necro is not going to be well received by the judgement that falls from the powers that be.
I don't have as much to say on this era as compared to the eve of war or the (Americanized) war itself. I feel not providing aid in this period would...
There is the matter of the Jungian Shadow: you have evil inside you as much as good, and you are capable of very evil things. You are an angel and a monster. It is worse when you reject that evil part of yourself or ignore it because it lashes out at bad intervals and can even take over. It can...
It depends what kind of game we are playing at here. If the administration makes Vietnam an issue to the public, and especially if it hangs it's hat in the survival of South Vietnam as a major issue, then a collapse is going to be traumatic.
If the administration does everything to distract...
I agree. The Baker scandal could be killed short of getting Johnson and left to be forgotten by the public.
In regards to the Evelyn Lincoln comment: one of the good and frustrating things I have come to understand in my years of being one of this site's JFK wunderkinds is that history is not...
If memory serves, the first hint of extramarital affairs was in the book "The Death of a President" in 1967.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_a_President
I must couch this in a context. I say the following as absolutely no excuse for his behavior, but as a comment on the social...