Thread by @RealLoriSpencer

In this vintage 3-hour interview with historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Special Assistant to #JFK, he makes clear that President Kennedy intended to end US involvement in the #VietnamWar
after winning re-election in 1964.

(Skip to around 17:00) 👇🏽

Schlesinger goes into more detail on Kennedy and Vietnam around 56:00 when a caller asks him to elaborate further.

Thank heavens for @cspan. In the 80s and 90s, before podcasting was a thing, this was the only place to see an in-depth, longform 3 hour interview like this one. 👏🏼

I have my disagreements w/ Schlesinger at times, but he reminded me (with humility) in this interview that “historians, like everyone else, are prisoners of their own experience.”