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The Best and the Brightest
The Best and the Brightest (1972) is an account by journalist David Halberstam on the origins of the Vietnam War.
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Individuals Mentioned
The Americans
Presidents
Cabinet
- Dean Rusk - secretary of state
- Robert McNamara - secretary of defense
Advisors
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- George Ball - Undersecretary of State
- Nicholas Katzenbach - Undersecretary of State
- McGeorge Bundy - Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
- Walt Whitman Rostow - deputy to McGeorge Bundy
- Maxwell Taylor - military advisor to JFK
Military
- General Maxwell Taylor - Consultant to the President and Chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
The Vietnamese
The Soviets
See also
- The Best and the Brightest is also the name of 1998 star trek novel
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