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4 unusual facts about McNamara Taylor mission


McNamara Taylor mission

He asserted that this had been facilitated by the Strategic Hamlet Program and was shown in the high turnout in the recent legislative elections.

Richardson felt that there was a Catch-22 situation in that there was nobody who commanded Diem's respect yet Diem's continual hold on power would ensure disaster.

General Paul D. Harkins and his MACV staff generally presented a favourable picture of military progress, emphasizing the progress of the Strategic Hamlet Program, and the improved ARVN position.

The two guardhouses outside Minh's headquarters at Tan Son Nhut Air Base were filled with political prisoners, many of them student protestors.



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