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Jim Douglass’s article “JFK, Obama, and the Unspeakable” in the November/December 2010 issue of Tikkun has the following statement, claiming to quote National Security Action Memorandum 263 of October 11, 1963, on withdrawing U.S. troops from Vietnam: “It ordered a U.S. troop withdrawal from Vietnam—bringing home ‘1,000 U.S. military personnel by the end of 1963’ and ‘by the end of 1965 ... the bulk of U.S. personnel.’”...

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