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Subsequent beginning in '65. do you think kennedy would have -- i have my own views. do you think kennedy would have escalated the way johnson did? >> i absolutely do not. the evidence is, i think, growing all the time that john f. kennedy would not have been suckered into vietnam the way lyndon johnson was. i say that was mike forstel. i'd written the book of his father and i used to interview him. john f. kennedy had gone to him and wanted a plan how to get out of there. there was a feeling it was a lost cause. kennedy gave a world peace speech. he was starting a new kind of foreign policy. ...