LBJ confession: US assassinated Diem
“But they started with me on Diem, you remember?… [That] he was corrupt and he ought to be killed. So we killed him. We all got together and got a goddamn bunch of thugs and we went in and assassinated him. Now, we’ve really had no political stability since then.”
(President Johnson to Eugene McCarthy, February 1, 1966)
Tape: tapes.millercenter.virginia.edu/clips/1966_0201_lbj_mccarthy_vietnam.swf
Transcript: americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/vietnamconf/transcript.html
via Medialens, today.
Hat tip to Rigorous Intuition forums…