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Briefing of Nguyen Khanh

United States of America · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1964

Maxwell Taylor4 August 1964

Saigon · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

Taylor was instructed to give Nguyen Khanh an accurate account of the Tonkin events, explain the planned American response, and urge South Vietnam not to undertake independent external action.

Names involved

Maxwell Taylor

Provenance

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