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Interview with James Claude Thomson, 1981 / by Richard Ellison and James C. Thomson, Jr.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Vietnam : a television history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thomson, James Claude, 1931---Interviews.
- Thomson, James Claude.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (25 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Mass. : WGBH Boston Video, 1983.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- James Claude Thomson served as an East Asia Specialist in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He comments on a lack of expertise on Asia in the US government in the 1950s and 1960s. Thomson helped draft the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, and he recalls the process to get it passed through Congress. He discusses the effects of the Democratic Party's fear of looking soft on Communism on Vietnam, and recalls his dismay at the escalation of the war in 1965.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 5, 2012).
- OCLC:
- 827297890
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