President Kennedy wanted to keep USA out of Vietnam

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5. Are you questioning the authenticity of NSAM 263?

You must be. Otherwise, I don't know how you could assert what you just asserted.

As became obvious on Nov. 22, 1963, President Kennedy was playing a dangerous game. The Joint Chiefs were lined up against him. As was the CIA and their principal clients then and now, multinational corporate interests. A segment of the country hated his guts and believed that he "blinked" at a time when he should've eliminated the "Communist threat" in Cuba and elsewhere once and for all. Kennedy realized this would've been suicidal. As a result, many of his public pronouncements were at odds with his actions in private. A classic example is the back-channel negotiations he had set up with both Khruschev and Castro. Also, there's no question that Kennedy was elected by using the rhetoric of a Cold Warrior. This is often used to suggest that his plans for withdrawal were implausible. However, events in 1962 and 1963 profoundly changed his world view.