David Halberstam person
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Claims (5)
David Halberstam member_of
The New York Times documented
“glorious moment in our hero David Halberstam's career as a New York Times reporter in South Vietnam and Saigon in November of 1963 during the coup of Dem, which is a really, you know, befuddled, in my opinion, deliberately befuddled, you kn…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 1:04:19
David Halberstam exposed
Korean War book_quoted
“He ignorantly and arrogantly underestimated the resolve of the Chinese. He wasted American lives because of his dereliction, and the blood is on his hands. And he was responsible for much more than American forces. His egregious performance…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea Part 4 @ 27:44
David Halberstam founded
The Best and the Brightest caller_asserted
“63, 64 period. And the thing about David Halberstam that's really important to understand is just how widely reviewed his book, The Best and the Brightest, was. It came out in 72, but it was referred to, you know, over and over again. And i…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 1:27:06
David Halberstam targeted_for_regime_change
Ngô Đình Diệm caller_asserted
“In his first book, he really was pro-escalation. And he later kind of lied about it, and this was echoed by the New York Times and the fake left, that, oh, he was always anti-Vietnam War, when in fact he was anything but. He wanted to get r…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 1:29:01
David Halberstam member_of
The New York Times host_asserted
“They have not read a peer-reviewed historian since, oh, right, David Halberstam. Oh, wait, he wasn't a peer-reviewed historian. He was a hawk pretending to be a dove who was a writer for The New York Times in Saigon in 1963 who just happene…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 1:30:13
Mentions (14)
▶ 25:32
And that's about it for that story. Now, there is a book, if you guys are interested in this at all, for a lot further, like very detailed information. A guy by the name of David Haberstam. The book's called The Coldest Winter. I do recomme…
▶ 27:44
He ignorantly and arrogantly underestimated the resolve of the Chinese. He wasted American lives because of his dereliction, and the blood is on his hands. And he was responsible for much more than American forces. His egregious performance…
▶ 31:59
Because we know Kennedy already had those cautions. He wanted out. He had already announced that he was withdrawing from Vietnam. That's another element. That was another nail in his coffin. David Halberstam tells the complete story from Xi…
▶ 1:26:37
And it relates to this kind of swing, pivotal swing period of 63, 64. And it relates to the popular historian, David Halberstam. And Jim wrote a two or three part series on Halberstam, who is, in my opinion, just so absolutely critical and …
▶ 1:27:06
63, 64 period. And the thing about David Halberstam that's really important to understand is just how widely reviewed his book, The Best and the Brightest, was. It came out in 72, but it was referred to, you know, over and over again. And i…
▶ 1:28:04
That are what I call like capillary. In other words, they're kind of more a little bit more esoteric, but they're not going to affect like the big narrative that reaches every single high school. Whereas it's very noteworthy that in people …
▶ 1:28:31
These sort of clip notes version by Halberstam. It's just it's so critical, in other words, that we that we examine exactly the propaganda that Halberstam was doing for the CIA in this absolutely critical period of 63, 64. And again, you kn…
▶ 1:29:01
In his first book, he really was pro-escalation. And he later kind of lied about it, and this was echoed by the New York Times and the fake left, that, oh, he was always anti-Vietnam War, when in fact he was anything but. He wanted to get r…
▶ 1:01:10
is kind of typical in the following sense. You have a kind of, you might say, leftist, left view of U.S. foreign policy in A.J. Lenguth, and yet look at where he still seems to be kind of in some ways echoing the David Halberstam official C…
▶ 1:30:13
They have not read a peer-reviewed historian since, oh, right, David Halberstam. Oh, wait, he wasn't a peer-reviewed historian. He was a hawk pretending to be a dove who was a writer for The New York Times in Saigon in 1963 who just happene…
▶ 1:30:43
sephora plastic explosives at the right time um but anyway it's like he's not even he's not a peer-reviewed historian he's a cia new york times journalist and yet in the ap us history that our taxpayer our taxes are paying the college board…
▶ 1:31:12
On this, it's still David Halberstam in its 1972. And this is what they care about. You know, it's not about JFK. It's about are they going to continue to spread this outdated idea that the president controls the national security state whe…
▶ 55:46
The mechanism of surveillance and control that Dulles put in motion were more in keeping with the expanding empire that they were creating. Journalist David Haberstam said, quote, the national security complex became in the Eisenhower years…
▶ 1:03:50
Two other incidents from world history, namely when the seaport mutiny in India, as you remember, was like a key point at which like the private running of India by the East India Company was replaced by, you know, the British military form…