Robert S. McNamara served as U.S. Secretary of Defense (SOD) for Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. McNamara participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis negotiations in 1961 and became a key formulator of Vietnam policy. This thesis challenges scholarship that characterize…
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The White Revolution was a set of six reform measures put to the Iranian people via referendum on 6 Bahman 1341 (26 January 1963), based on a plan for social justice linked with economic development, encased in the concept of a bloodless revolution from the top. This did not hap…
This dissertation explains why the Franco-American relationship fell apart between 1958 and 1963, from Charles de Gaulle's return to power to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. These five years mark the height of the Cold War as the two Berlin crises and the Cuban Missile cri…
The literature on U.S.-Israel relations sometimes glides past the Kennedy period—treating it as a mere place-marker between Suez and the Six Day War, between the martial frostiness of Dwight Eisenhower and the Texan warmth of Lyndon Johnson. But the increasingly complete documen…
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 has been one of the great controversies of the last four decades. A variety of conspiracy theories have been offered to explain the tragedy, from multiple assassins in Dealey Plaza (the site of the killing in Da…