Richard Goodwin, a former speech-writer for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, has admitted that he wrote false accounts of the Vietnam War, Addressing a meeting of the Americans for Democratic Action, in Washington last week, Mr. Goodwin accused the Administration of deliberate lying. "If we take the number of enemy we are supposed to be killing, add the number of defectors along with the number of wounded, we find we are virtually wiping out the entire North Vietnamese force every year." Of his own deceptions, he admitted that "there were some which I believed at the time and some which I did not."
The WeekThe Week Vol. 6, No. 10, 22 September 1966
L.b.j's Former Speech-writer Admits Deception
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