The Best and the Brightest
Who is Edward Lansdale from The Best and the Brightest and what is their importance?
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Edward Lansdale was a brigadier general who has spent a great deal of time in Vietnam. He groomed Ngo Dinh Diem for the position of President when the U.S. needed an anti-communist leader. Lansdale was included in the October 1961 Rostow-Taylor fact-finding group that went to Vietnam.