McNamara–Taylor mission
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The McNamara–Taylor mission was a 10-day fact-finding expedition to South Vietnam in September 1963 by the Kennedy administration to review progress in the battle by the Army of the Republic of Vietna
US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara
US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Maxwell Taylor
US President John F. Kennedy
Krulak–Mendenhall mission
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The Krulak–Mendenhall mission was a fact-finding expedition dispatched by the Kennedy administration to South Vietnam in early September 1963. The stated purpose of the expedition was to investigate t
McNamara–Taylor mission
…US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and General Maxwell D. Taylor, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The mission came in the wake of the Krulak–Mendenhall mission in which United States Marine Corps General Victor Krulak and State Department official Joseph Mendenhall gave diametrically differing outlooks on the…
United States Marine Corps General Victor Krulak
Ngô Đình Nhu (pictured right) meeting US Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson
US Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, RVN president Ngô Đình Diệm and Frederick Nolting in South Vietnam's Presidential Palace in 1961