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(U) Second Interlude: The Center Does Not Hold ­
Post-Diem South Vietnam, 1964
(D) However, all of these projected reductions
had been predicated on the Kennedy administration's
perceptions of the course of the war.
Militarily, McNamara and the JCS were opti-
mistic that the war was being won. Politically,
though, the administrationhad been disenchanted
with Diem and his government. During the
early years of the insurgency, it was-these frustrations
with Saigon's politics/that had led the
American presidentjo'