"A Good, Bad Deal": John F. Kennedy, W. Averell Harriman, and the Neutralization of Laos, 1961-1962 | Zendy

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"A Good, Bad Deal": John F. Kennedy, W. Averell Harriman, and the Neutralization of Laos, 1961-1962

Author(s) -

Edmund F. Wehrle

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

pacific historical review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154

H-Index - 21

eISSN - 1533-8584

pISSN - 0030-8684

DOI - 10.2307/3641753

Subject(s) - icon , citation , download , history , computer science , library science , information retrieval , world wide web , programming language

Historians have devoted considerable attention to John F. Kennedy's Southeast Asian diplomacy. Yet the vast majority of these studies have focused narrowly on Vietnam when, in fact, it was Laos to which the president devoted the bulk of his attention during his first two years in office.1 In Laos, Kennedy faced a precarious situation, strikingly similar to the crisis soon to arise in Vietnam. Defying many of his advisers and risking political peril, Kennedy decided to pursue the formation of a neutral

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