by Max Boot
24 RP, Vietnam, 263.
25 EGL to HL, Sept. 26, 1965, PCLPP.
26 EGL to Lodge, Sept. 21, 1965, HI/EGL, box 58, file 1532.
27 EGL to McNamara, Nov. 30, 1965, MHS/HCL, Part V, reel 20.
28 EGL to HL, Sept. 24, 1965, PCLPP.
29 EGL to HL, Oct. 17, 1965, PCLPP.
30 EGL to HL, Sept. 26, 1965, PCLPP.
31 Lodge to EGL, Oct. 30, 1965, MHS/HCL, Part V, reel 20.
32 EGL to HL, Oct. 29, 1965, PCLPP.
33 EGL to Robert Komer, May 30, 1971, HI/EGL, box 4.
34 EGL to Lodge, Sept. 29, 1965, HI/EGL, box 55, file 1484.
35 EGL to State, n.d., HI/EGL, box 55, file 1486.
36 FRUS 1964–1968, Vietnam, 3.458–60.
37 EGL to Bundy/Unger, Oct. 6, 1965, HI/EGL, box 55, file 1485.
38 EGL to William Bundy/Leonard Unger, Sept. 27, 1965, HI/EGL, box 55, file 1484.
39 EGL to State, Nov. 26, 1965, HI/EGL, box 53, file 1419.
40 EGL to HL, March 24, 1966, PCLPP.
41 Schafer, “Pham Duy”; WP, April 4, 1966.
42 “Weekly Report,” Nov. 28, 1965, HI/EGL, box 55, file 1487.
43 EGL to William Bundy, Dec. 3, 1965, HI/EGL, box 52, file 1415.
44 Timeline, HI/EGL, box 95, file 5.
45 EGL to Westmoreland, Aug. 2 1966, HI/EGL, box 56, file 1491.
46 AI/HG; Westmoreland to EGL, Aug. 20, 1966, HI/EGL, box 56, file 1491.
47 EGL to Tom W. Hoffer, Feb. 7, 1974, HI/EGL, box 3.
48 VCA/BZOH.
49 EGL interview, Dec. 17, 1984, CCP.
50 Wells, Wild, 235–36; Grant, Phoenix, 268.
51 AI/FS.
52 EGL to HL, Sept. 8, 1965, PCLPP.
53 AI/RP.
54 CTRB to EGL, Nov. 29, 1965, HI/CB, box 35, file 19.
55 Ibid.
56 EGL to HL, Jan. 20, 1966, PCLPP.
57 CTRB to EGL, Nov. 29, 1965, HI/CB, box 35, file 19.
58 LBJPL/LCOH.
59 Mike Deutch to EGL, July 26, 1966, HI/EGL, box 53,
60 EGL, “Memorandum,” March 4, 1966, HI/EGL, box 55, file 1480.
61 EGL to William Bundy, Dec. 17, 1965, HI/EGL, box 52, file 1415.
62 Deutch to EGL, Jan. 6, 1966, NSA/EGL.
63 Kissinger to Lodge, Dec. 3, 1965, HKP, box 99, file 22.
64 EGL to Lodge, Dec. 2, 1965, HI/EGL, box 58, file 1532.
65 Gibbons, U.S. Government, 4.189.
66 Time, Feb. 18, 1966.
67 EGL to HL, Feb. 13, 1966, PCLPP.
68 Bui Diem, Jaws, 162.
69 Humphrey, Education, 246–47.
70 Berman, Hubert, 108.
71 EGL to HL, Feb. 13, 1966, PCLPP.
72 Ibid.
73 LBJ to EGL, March 17, 1966, LBJPL, White House Central Files, box 52, file L.
74 EGL to HL, March 24, 1966, PCLPP.
75 EGL to HL, Feb. 22, 1966, PCLPP.
76 RP, Vietnam, 266.
77 AI/SW.
78 EGL to HL, March 2, 1966, PCLPP.
79 Lodge to State, March 1966, HI/EGL, box 55, file 1480.
CHAPTER 30: To Stay or to Go?
1 http://www.americanwarlibrary.com/vietnam/vwatl.htm.
2 Wolff, Pharaoh’s Army, 6–7.
3 Marlantes, Matterhorn (“sterile”: 9; “eyes”: 49; “cuts”: 29; “sweat”: 12; “fatigue”: 56; “H&I”: 52).
4 EGL to Deutch, June 22, 1966, HI/EGL, Box 53.
5 EGL to HL, Aug. 7, 1966, PCLPP.
6 Ellsberg, Secrets, 110.
7 Wells, Wild, 246–70.
8 EGL to Ellsberg, Sept. 15, 1972, HI/EGL, box 3.
9 EGL, “Talk with Amb. Porter,” April 20, 1966, HI/EGL, box 55, file 1481.
10 Wells, Wild, 263.
11 RP, Vietnam, 358; Grant, Phoenix, 269–70.
12 EGL to HL, March 16, 1966, PCLPP.
13 EGL to Deutch, May 15, 1966, HI/EGL, box 53.
14 EGL to Deutch, June 22, 1966, HI/EGL, box 53.
15 EGL to HL, June 4, 1966, PCLPP.
16 EGL to HL, July 5, 1966, PCLPP.
17 PK to EGL, n.d., HI/EGL, box 53.
18 EGL to Deutch, June 8, 1966, HI/EGL, box 53.
19 AI/DE.
20 VCA/OWOH.
21 EGL to PK, Feb. 5, 1966, PYPP.
22 EGL to PK, Feb. 28, 1966, PYPP.
23 EGL to PK, March 19, 1966, PYPP.
24 EGL to PK, April 4, 1966, PYPP.
25 EGL to HL, April 1, 1966, PCLPP.
26 EGL to PK, June 12, 1966, PYPP.
27 EGL to PK, Dec. 10, 1966, PYPP.
28 PK to EGL, March 1, 1967, HI/EGL, box 38.
29 EGL to SLO Staff, May 26, 1966, HI/EGL, box 59, file 1537.
30 Ellsberg, Secrets, 107.
31 Grant, Phoenix, 266.
32 Ellsberg, Secrets, 108.
33 FRUS 1966, Vietnam, 4.547.
34 Ellsberg, Secrets, 106.
35 RP to William Jorden, “The Vietnam Elections—Ed Lansdale’s Key Role,” Sept. 22, 1966, HI/EGL, box 59, file 1549.
36 EGL to Lodge/Porter, Aug. 19, 1966, NSA/EGL, box 2.
37 “Notes on Meeting at 194 Cong Ly, 10 August 1966,” HI/EGL box 56, file 1491.
38 EGL to Joseph Baker, Sept. 14, 1966, HI/EGL, box 53.
39 Komer to EGL, Sept. 16, 1966, NSA/EGL, box 2.
40 Karrick to EGL, Sept. 20, 1966, HI/EGL, box 56, file 1493.
41 EGL to Lodge, Feb. 18, 1967, NSA/EGL, box 2.
42 EGL, “The Battleground in 1967,” Nov. 8, 1966, HI/EGL, box 58, file 1525.
43 Rostow to LBJ, Nov. 17, 1966, LBJPL/NSF, box 11.
44 Lodge to EGL, Jan. 24, 1967, MHS/HCLP, Part V, reel 21.
45 RP to Leonard Unger, Nov. 10, 1968, HI/EGL, box 59, file 1550.
CHAPTER 31: Waiting for the Second Coming
1 Shapley, Promise, 438.
2 Gitlin, Sixties, loc. 6601.
3 Wells, War, 194.
4 Dallek, Flawed, 452.
5 Solberg, Humphrey, 303.
6 Gibbons, U.S. Government, 4.549.
7 Shapley, Promise, 426.
8 Dallek, Flawed, 495; Goodwin, Johnson, 321.
9 Schaffer, Bunker.
10 LBJPL/EGLOH.
11 AI/ML.
12 EGL interview, Dec. 17, 1985, CCP.
13 RP, Vietnam, 130.
14 AI/FS.
15 AI/ML.
16 AI/CM.
17 Michael Delaney, email to author, Dec. 19, 2015.
18 Roche to LBJ, Nov. 13, 1967, LBJPL, Handwriting File, box 26, 1967 folder.
19 Ibid.
20 AI/CM.
21 EGL to HL, Aug. 30, 1966, PCLPP.
22 Ibid.
23 NYT, April 28, 1968.
24 EGL to Bunker, “Wedding,” July 27, 1967, CCP, box 5, file 118.
25 EGL to SLO Staff, Nov. 3, 1966, HI/EGL, box 52, file 1415.
26 AI/GB.
27 EGL to Zorthian, March 20, 1967, HI/EGL, box 52, file 1407.
28 AI/PT.
29 EGL to Napoleon Valeriano, July 6, 1967, HI/EGL, box 52, file 1409.
30 EGL to William Connell, March 10, 1967, HI/EGL, box 57, file 1499.
31 EGL to Lodge, Feb. 21, 1967, HI/EGL, box 56, file 1498.
32 Shaplen, Road, 155.
33 Ibid., 156–57.
34 McAllister, “Fiasco.”
35 EGL to Sam Wilson, March 24, 1976, HI/EGL, box 8.
36 EGL, “Talk with Phong,” Sept. 28, 1967, NSA/EGL, box 2.
37 EGL to Sam Karrick, Sept. 22, 1967, HI/EGL, box 57, file 1505.
38 EGL to Bunker, Oct. 11, 1967, HI/EGL, box 57, file 1506.
39 EGL to William Connell, Oct. 4, 1967, HI/EGL, box 53.
40 NYT, April 1, 1967.
41 EGL to Karrick, Sept. 22, 1967, HI/EGL, box 57, file 1505.
42 EGL to William Connell, Oct. 4, 1967, HI/EGL, box 53.
43 EGL to Bunker, Sept. 15, 1967, HI/EGL, box 57, file 1505.
44 EGL to Bunker, Oct. 28, 1967, HI/EGL, box 57, file 1506.
45 EGL to Bunker, Sept. 15, 1967, HI/EGL, box 57, file 1505.
46 McAllister, “One Man.”
47 EGL, “Talk with Thang,” Jan. 20, 1968, HI/EGL, box 57, file 1509.
48 EGL to Bunker, Sept. 15, 1967, HI/EGL, box 57, file 1505.
49 McAllister, “One Man.”
50 NYT, Oct. 12, 1969.
51 EGL to Alan Berg, Sept. 30. 1967, HI/EGL, box 53.
52 EGL to Bunker, Oct. 28, 1967, HI/EGL, box 57, file 1506.
CHAPTER 32: The Long Goodbye
1 Braestrup, Big Story, 94.
2 EGL to “The Old Team,” Feb. 10, 1968, HI/EGL, box 57, file 1510.
3 Ibid.
4 Duiker, Road, 292; Prados, Vietnam, 239.
5 EGL, draft memoir, HI/EGL, box 77, file 268.
6 EGL to “The Old Team,” Feb. 10, 1968, HI/EGL, box 57, file 1510.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 EGL interview, Dec. 17, 1984, CCP.
11 EGL to Bunker, Feb. 4, 1968, HI/EGL, box 57, file 1510.
12 Oberdorfer, Tet, 329–30.
13 EGL to Bunker, Feb. 27, 1968, HI/EGL, box 57, file 1510.
14 Ibid.
15 EGL to Bunker, March 27, 1968, HI/EGL, box 58, file 1511.
16 EGL to Bunker, March 1, 1968, HI/EGL, box 58, file 1511.
17 Connell to EGL, March 20, 1968, HI/EGL, box 53, Connell file.
18 NYT, Nov. 30, 1984.
19 Braestrup, Big Story, 49–53.
20 Dallek, Flawed, 506.
21 Ibid., 526.
22 Clifford, Counsel, 476.
23 Ibid., 511.
24 Solberg, Humphrey, 321–22.
25 Gitlin, Sixties, loc. 6831.
26 Dallek, Flawed, 531.
27 EGL to HL, April 9, 1968, PCLPP.
28 EGL to HL, May 6, 1968, PCLPP.
29 Prados, Vietnam, 255.
30 RP, Vietnam, 287.
31 EGL to HL, May 12, 1968, PCLPP.
32 Clifford, Counsel, 542–44; Sorley, Better, 28–29.
33 EGL, draft memoir, HI/EGL, box 76, file 265.
34 Sorley, Better, 24–27.
35 EGL interview, May 16, 1984, CCP; LBJPL/EGLOH.
36 EGL to HL, May 6, 1968, PCLPP.
37 HI/EGL, box 73, file 2.
38 Fish, “Folksongs.”
39 EGL to Bunker, June 4, 1968, HI/EGL, box 58, file 1514.
40 EGL to Bunker, May 1968, HI/EGL, box 58, file 1513.
41 EGL to HL, May 25, 1968, PCLPP.
42 EGL to Rostow, June 1, 1968, HI/EGL, box 58, file 1519.
43 EGL to Bunker, June 7, 1968, HI/EGL, box 58, file 1527.
44 Rostow to LBJ, June 11, 1968, LBJPL/NSF, Memos to the President, box 35.
45 EGL, “There Is My Country,” HI/EGL, box 75.
46 Ibid.
47 EGL, draft memoir, HI/EGL, box 76, file 265; EGL to “The Old Team,” June 8, 1968, HI/EGL, box 59, file 1535.
48 LBJPL/EGLOH.
49 Ibid.
50 EGL to Bunker, June 14, 1968, HI/EGL, box 58, file 1514.
51 RP, Vietnam, 290.
52 EGL to “The Old Team,” June 8, 1968, HI/EGL, box 59, file 1535.
53 Clifford, Counsel, 551.
54 NYT, June 16, 1968.
55 WP, Sept. 29, 1968.
CHAPTER 33: The War at Home
1 Gittlin, Sixties, loc. 6462.
2 Bernie Yoh interview, March 25, 1987, MLEPP.
3 Ted Lansdale, email to author, March 3, 2016.
4 Gittlin, Sixties, loc. 7089.
5 EGL to PK, Nov. 11, 1972, PYPP.
6 EGL to HL, March 15, 1968, PCLPP.
7 EGL to HL, April 30, 1968, PCLPP.
8 EGL to Cass Canfield, Sept. 30, 1968, HI/EGL, box 75.
9 Carol Brandt to EGL, Nov. 4, 1968, HI/EGL, box 2.
10 EGL to David G. Marr, Jan 7, 1970, HI/EGL, box 5.
11 EGL to Carol Brandt, March 4, 1970, HI/EGL, box 2.
12 EGL to Edwin O. Learnard, July 17, 1972, HI/EGL, box 1.
13 EGL to Peter Richards, July 23, 1971, CCP.
14 EGL to Lee C. Hanson, Oct. 24, 1974, HI/EGL, box 73.
15 “Viet-Nam: Problems and Prospects,” VCA/RPP, box 2, file 25.
16 Bunker to State, Sept. 29, 1968, CCP, box 9, file 68.
17 Black, Nixon, 78.
18 Thomas, Nixon, 10.
19 Kissinger, Memoirs, loc. 58847.
20 Ferguson, Kissinger, 167.
21 Bui Diem, Jaws, 292.
22 WP, May 26, 1971.
23 EGL to Peter Richards, Nov. 6, 1971, CCP, box 13, file 200.
24 Thomas, Nixon, 218, 235.
25 Burr, Nuclear, 326.
26 Moyar, Phoenix, 236.
27 Woodward, Last, 114.
28 Sorley, Better, 208–13.
29 Kimball, Nixon’s, 246–47; Sorley, Better, 256–63.
30 Kissinger, Memoirs, loc. 9123–78.
31 Hughes, Fatal, 27.
32 Ibid., 27–28.
33 Ibid., 35.
34 Wells, Wild, 316.
35 Ibid., 387.
36 Rudenstine, Day; Prados, Inside; Wells, Wild.
37 EGL to Bob Burns, July 20, 1971, HI/EGL, box 2.
38 EGL to Arellano, Oct. 20, 1971, HI/EGL, box 2.
39 EGL interview, Dec. 17, 1984, CCP.
40 Wells, Wild, 542.
41 Ibid., 509.
42 Kissinger, Memoirs, loc. 1391.
CHAPTER 34: A Defeat in Disguise
1 WP, Feb. 13, 1972.
2 EGL to Lawrence Houston, March 14, 1972, HI/EGL, box 2.
3 EGL to Jack [Wachtell?], March 14, 1972, box 2.
4 EGL to Ann Harris, Oct. 9, 1971, HI/EGL, box 75.
5 EGL to CTRB, July 18, 1971, CCP, box 13, file 198.1.
6 EGL, Midst, vii.
7 Saturday Review, April 1, 1971.
8 NYT, April 9, 1972.
9 WP, March 15, 1972.
10 WP, March 19, 1972.
11 PK to EGL, Aug. 23, 1972, PYPP.
12 “Current Titles and Sales Figures,” April 1972, CU/HR, Series II, box 228.
13 MacMillan, Nixon, 23–27.
14 Kimball, Files, 162–63.
15 Nguyen, Hanoi’s War, 241–43.
16 Willbanks, Thiet Giap, 3–4.
17 Ibid., 11.
18 Randolph, Brutal, loc. 1710.
19 Sheehan, Lie, 790.
20 Sorley, Better, 342.
21 Sheehan, Lie, 785–89.
22 Ibid., 8.
23 EGL to W. E. Thacker, May 9, 1972, HI/EGL, box 2.
24 Melvin to EGL, June 2, 1972, box 5.
25 EGL to Peter Richards, July 11, 1972, CCP, box 13, file 200.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid.
28 EGL to Donald H. McLean Jr., Oct. 21, 1972, HI/EGL, box 5.
29 WP, Dec. 10, 1972.
30 EGL to Philip Flammer, Jan. 18, 1974, HI/EGL, box 73.
31 EGL to PK, June 8, 1972, PYPP.
32 EGL to Hank Miller and PK, Aug. 15, 1927, PYPP.
33 EGL to PK, Aug. 29, 1972, PYPP.
34 PK to EGL, Sept. 8, 1972, HI/EGL, box 4.
35 PK to EGL, Oct. 31, 1972, HI/EGL, box 4.
36 PK to EGL, Nov. 16, 1972, HI/EGL, box 4.
37 PK to EGL, Feb. 2, 1972, HI/EGL, box 4.
38 EGL to Bohannan, March 15, 1973, CCP, box 13, file 198.1.
39 EGL to Ben Lansdale, June 12, 1973, HI/EGL, box 83, file 1.
40 Pete Lansdale, email to author, March 8, 2016.
41 EGL to Peter Richards, Sept. 12, 1973, CCP, box 13, file 200.
42 Ibid.
43 EGL to Charles F. Baker, HI/EGL, box 1.
44 Kissinger, Memoirs, loc. 27445.
45 Nguyen, Palace, 83.
46 Ibid., 146.
47 Ibid., 103.
48 NYT, Feb. 25, 1973.
49 EGL to Glen W. Martin, Aug 5, 1972, HI/EGL, box 1.
50 NYT, Sept. 5, 1972.
CHAPTER 35: The Abandoned Ally
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sp; 1 Ford, Heal, 39–40.
2 Merry, World, 525.
3 Truong, Memoir, 242.
4 Hunt, Losing, 28.
5 Veith, Black, 144.
6 Ibid., 119.
7 EGL to Bohannan, Jan. 16, 1975, CCP, box 13, file 198.1.
8 Hunt, Losing, 132.
9 Snepp, Interval, 556.
10 Ibid., 498.
11 Engelmann, Tears, 174.
12 Ibid., 164–65.
13 Ibid., 101–2.
14 Ibid., 166.
15 Snepp, Interval, 548.
16 Truong, Memoir, 258–59.
17 NYT, Aug. 10, 1997.
18 Truong, Memoir, 259.
19 EGL to Humphrey, March 24, 1975, HI/EGL, box 4.
20 Pham Duy to EGL, April 3, 1975, HI/EGL, box 6.
21 NYT, April 12, 1975.
22 EGL to CTRB, June 1, 1975, CCP, box 13, file 198.1.
23 EGL to Robert De Vecchi, May 20, 1975, HI/EGL, box 5.
24 EGL to CTRB, March 23, 1981, CCP, box 13, file 198.1.
25 EGL to CTRB, Dec. 26, 1975, CCP, box 13, file 198.1.
26 NYT, July 23, 2011; Nguyen, Child, 350–60.
27 Nguyen, Palace, 333.
28 Nguyen, Communism, 206–25.
29 Goscha, Vietnam, 372–98.
30 EGL to Gary May, Oct. 10, 1977, HI/EGL, box 5.
31 EGL to Douglas Blaufarb, June 3, 1982, HI/EGL, box 2.
32 Gibbons interview, Jan. 14, 1987, MLEPP.
33 EGL, “Comments on Limited War,” U.S. Air Force Academy, Oct. 20, 1978, HI/EGL, box 79, file 290a.
34 Goscha, Vietnam, 323–24.
35 EGL to Lawrence E. Grinter, Dec. 12, 1975, HI/EGL, box 3.
CHAPTER 36: The Family Jewels
1 Frum, 70s, 39.
2 Colby, Honorable, 341.
3 Ibid., 389–91.
4 Weiner, Legacy, 338.
5 Colby, Honorable, 409–10.
6 EGL to CTRB, Feb. 24, 1975, CCP, box 13, file 198.1.
7 EGL to CTRB, March 13, 1975, CCP, box 13, file 198.1.
8 EGL to CTRB, March 28, 1975, CCP, box 13, file 198.1.
9 MFF/DEGL.
10 Kissinger, Memoirs, loc. 70186.
11 Ashby, Odds, 217.
12 Ibid., 24–25, 33, 140.
13 Johnson, Inquiry, 19.
14 Ibid., 41.
15 Ibid., 21.
16 MFF/EGL.
17 MFF/RSM.
18 AI/JD.
19 EGL to CTRB, July 12, 1975, CCP, box 13, file 198.1.
20 Ashby, Odds, 478.
21 U.S. Senate, Plots, 1.
22 Ibid., 265.
23 EGL to Church, Jan. 1, 1976, HI/EGL, box 10.
24 EGL to CTRB, Jan. 31, 1976, CCP, box 13, file 198.1.
25 Ibid.
26 NYT, April 27, 1976.
27 U.S. Senate, Final Report, 427.
28 Kissinger, Memoirs, loc. 70475.
29 EGL to CTRB, Jan. 9, 1979, CCP, box 13, file 198.1.
CHAPTER 37: The End of the Road
