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For Kennedy, South Vietnam was becoming a bigger political headache with each passing day.

Kennedy couldn't contain his dislike for "this bitch" Madame Nhu.

A sure sign that an administration is in the throes of bureaucratic infighting is a wave of leaks to the press.

Just 46 years old in the summer of 1963, Kennedy was the peak of his powers.

Time, was one of the most the most influential magazines in America with a nationwide circulation in 1963 of nearly 3 million copies a week.

The Birds on a Train by Lee Child- 4 Stars= Never get on a train in a Hitchcock story.

Like A Bun at Bewley's by David Thomson- 3 Stars- That Hitchcock

Carlson introduced his more than 4 million viewers, the largest audience in cable news history to The Great Replacement Theory. A tenant of far right white nationalist that holds that at the behest of Jews, is intent on increasing non white immigrants to "replace" and disempower white Americans.

The communists had proven they could stand fast against anything the Saigon army and its American friends threw at them.

The South Vietnamese government was too clumsy and inefficient to be as ruthlessly totalitarian as Ho's but there were strong similarities.

Signs of the expanding U.S. presence were hard to miss in Saigon.

JFK had paid only intermittent attention to Vietnam during the first 2 years of his presidency.

The top military brass had no interest in digging wells and building schools for peasants and they thought the regular troops under their command could handle a few thousand ill equipped guerrillas just fine. 👀

Carlson landed his primetime Fox show because he was one of the first people on the network to recognize Trump's political appeal.

Steve Bannon viewed Breitbart News less as a political website dedicated to covering news than a political weapon designed to advance his and The Mercers' ideological agenda.

Tucker wanted The Daily Caller to be the conservative Huffington Post.

Matt Drudge of The Drudge Report, the preeminent political tip sheet, apparently hated Tucker. The source of Drudge's animus was a mystery, some believed he was turned off by Tucker's homophobia, Drudge is a rumored gay man.

Pat Buchanan had written a book, A Republic, Not an Empire, in which he attempted to rehabilitate Charles Lindbergh's "America First" policy.