Political Career
Forrestal had a reputation as a high-ranking mediator within the U.S.; he frequently served as an intermediary seeking to improve relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.
His early role in the gradual transformation of attitudes in the United States toward South Vietnam eventually led to the extraction of U.S. troops on April 30, 1975. It had changed its stance on South Vietnam late in the 1960s, owing to what it felt was the increasing liability of its vehemently anticommunist leader, Diệm.
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