Harvey, William, 141–42
Hearst, William Randolph, Jr., 22
Hearts and Minds, 58
Heinl, Robert, 214
helicopters, 155, 158
Helms, Jesse, 245
Hemingway, Ernest, 34
Hepburn, Audrey, 33, 54
Herberg, Will, 12
heroism, 236–37, 254–56, 273, 333
Herr, Michael, 172–73
Herrick, John, 47
Heston, Charlton, 45–46
Hilsman, Roger, 102
Hinckle, Warren, 20
Hitler, Adolf, 35–37, 39, 147, 199, 217, 258, 301
Hussein compared to, 296–97
Munich Agreement and, 36, 37, 39, 62, 74, 78, 83
HIV/AIDS, 283
Ho Chi Minh, 14, 19–20, 24, 26, 44, 73, 74, 87, 92, 163, 318
Ho Chi Minh City, 115
Ho Chi Minh Trail, 156
Hoi, Vu Quang, 115
Holocaust, 301, 302
Honor America Day, 206–9
Hoover, J. Edgar, 50
Hope, Bob, 206–11, 264
Hue, 175–77
Huntington, Samuel, 103–5, 108
Hussein, Saddam, 295–98, 310, 318, 326
Iacocca (Iacocca), 256
Iacocca, Lee, xviii, 256–59
I. F. Stone’s Weekly, 25, 45
immigrants, 228, 260–61
Indians, 228, 229
In Pharaoh’s Army (Wolff), 177–78
Intrepid, 62–63
Iran, 75, 232, 233, 279, 296, 318
hostage crisis in, xviii, 227, 232–37, 239, 288
Shah of, 96, 232, 233, 235, 284, 285
Iran-Contra scandal, 292–93
Iraq, xix, 110, 228, 287, 295–300, 304, 305, 306, 310–18, 324–30
Abu Ghraib prison in, 308–11, 330
Israel, 288
Jackson State College, 202–4
Japan, 18, 93–95, 169, 228, 261, 262
in World War II, 13, 56–57, 157, 163
Jarecke, Kenneth, 308
Jefferson, Thomas, 95–96
Jews, 301
Johnson, Chalmers, 321, 322
Johnson, Harold, 131
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 28, 46–51, 59, 64–74, 81–86, 91, 95, 105–6, 138, 140, 141, 153, 156, 185, 199
bombing and, 162–64
Brown & Root and, 110–11
Diem and, 22–23
Goodwin and, 82–84
Great Society programs of, 49, 68, 133–34, 261, 317
Rostow and, 101
Vietnam War escalated by, 82, 86, 163–64, 288
Johnson, Thomas A., 139
Jordan, Michael, 114–15
Jordan, Robert, 287
Judd, Walter, 21
Kagame, Paul, 303
Kandahar massacre, 306–7
Karnow, Stanley, 42
Kelly, Edna, 21
Kennan, George F., 52–53, 69
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 119
Kennedy, John, Jr., 119
Kennedy, John F., xv, 9–15, 17, 21–23, 41–43, 46, 48, 64, 82, 83, 137, 183
assassination of, 28, 42, 119–20, 122, 191, 231
Cuba and, 74–78
Diem and, 24
Green Berets and, 121
inaugural address of, 122
military intervention and, 37, 41, 42
Nixon and, 9–10
Peace Corps and, 9, 10
Rostow and, 100–101
Vietnam War escalated by, 25, 42, 77
Kennedy, Moorhead C., Jr., 235
Kennedy, Robert F., 30, 69, 75, 77, 83, 119–20, 231
Kent State University, 183, 186–93, 197, 198, 201, 308
Kerr, Clark, 137
Kerry, John, 265–66
Khmer Rouge, 225–27
Khomeini, Ruhollah, 232
Khrushchev, Nikita, 76–78
Kill Anything That Moves (Turse), 172
King, Coretta Scott, 60
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 13, 59–61, 134, 138, 185, 211, 231, 236
Kinnard, Douglas, 181
Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 232
Kissinger, Henry, xiv–xv, 198–99, 226
Klein, Christina, 16
Koh Tang, 226–27
Kojak, 239
Koran, 306, 307
Korean War, 15, 37–40, 49, 65, 68, 137, 163, 243
Kovic, Ron, 144, 190–92
Krause, Allison, 189
Kuwait, 296, 297, 299, 300
Ky, Nguyen Cao, 48, 98
Ladies’ Home Journal, 33, 54–56
Lake, Anthony, 303
Langguth, A. J. “Jack,” 74
Lansdale, Edward, 21, 26–27, 39
Laos, 8, 10, 28, 48–49, 107, 128–29, 154, 178, 261
Laurence, John, 213
Lausche, Frank, 52–53
Lawson, James, 60
Lebanon, 227, 287–91
Lederer, William, 8, 27
Lee, Bernard, 59
LeMay, Curtis, 56–57, 83, 104, 163
Lembcke, Jerry, 237
Life, 22, 43, 61, 98, 111, 145
Life Is Worth Living, 11
Lin, Maya, 240
Lindsay, John, 183, 185, 193–95
Liteky, Charlie, 278–81
Liuzzo, Viola, 56
Loan, Nguyen Ngoc, 267
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 24
Look, 20
Los Angeles Times, 204–5
Luce, Don, 111
Luce, Henry, 13, 16, 21, 22, 69
Lundborg, Louis B., 112, 113
MacArthur, Douglas, 38
MACV, 43–45, 64–65, 175
Maddox, 46, 47
Magruder, Jeb, 206
Malaysia, 92–94
Manchester Guardian, 34
Mansfield, Mike, 13, 21, 22, 65–66
Mao Tse-tung, 69, 101, 104, 120
Marcos, Ferdinand, 96
Marshall, William, 58–59
Marshall Plan, 94
Martin, Graham, 31, 225
Marx, Karl, 41, 100
masculinity, 78, 82, 84, 248–49
Mauldin, Bill, 65
Mayaguez, SS, 225–27
Mayhorn, Gloria, 203
McCain, John, 301, 311
McCarthyism, 38, 332
McGovern, George, 163, 264–65
McLean, Joyce, 57
McNamara, Robert, 46–47, 56–57, 68, 76, 79, 81, 103, 132, 133, 266
McNaughton, John, 80–82
Meadlo, Paul, 149–50
Meany, George, 197
Medina, Ernest, 147
Mekong Delta, 106, 158, 179–80
Michener, James, 15–16, 18
Middle America Committee, 196
Middle East, 285, 315, 320
military, 132–33, 258–59, 283, 286, 321
bases, 106–10, 321
culture of, 124–25, 144
desegregation of, 137, 139
medical exemptions and, 134
see also soldiers
Military Half, The (Schell), 166
Miller, Jeff, 189
Milosevic, Slobodan, 302
Mississippi Freedom Summer, 136
Mizo, George, 280–81
Mladic, Ratko, 302
Mobutu Sese Seko, 96
Mogadishu, 302, 303
Moore, Harold G., 273–74
Moore, Robin, 126–29, 142
Moran, Kevin, 113
Morrison, Jim, 125
Morrison, Norman, 277, 278
Morse, Wayne, 48
Morton, Br
uce, 298
Moskos, Charles, 132
Mossadegh, Mohammad, 233
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 132–33
Muller, Bobby, 239
Munich Agreement, 36, 37, 39, 62, 74, 78, 83
Murphy, Duncan, 280
music, 123–26, 259
Muskie, Edmund, 203–4
My Lai massacre, xvi, 144–50, 180–81, 267, 308
napalm, 43, 49, 53–59, 153, 267, 269, 278, 308
Napalm Ladies, 57
Nash, Diane, 60
National Archives, 180
nationalism, xviii, 13, 260–61, 273, 283
National Review, 240
National Security Council, 65, 95
nation building, 99, 101, 104–6, 128, 320
Native Americans, 228, 229
Neary, Joan, 259
Negro Family, The (Moynihan), 133
New Face of War, The (Browne), 268–69
New Jersey, USS, 288, 289
New Leader, 23
New Left Notes, 135
New Legions, The (Duncan), 142–43
Newsweek, 131, 180, 181, 221, 245, 262, 293, 330
New York Times, 23, 26, 41, 48, 49, 53, 57–58, 74, 112, 145, 155, 161, 162, 174, 198, 241, 268, 315
New York Times Magazine, 234
Nhu, Ngo Dinh, 24
Nicaragua, 40, 232, 245, 275–80, 287, 292–94
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 13
Nightline, 233
Night of the Dragons, 45–46
Nike, 114–15
9/11 attacks, see September 11 terrorist attacks
Nixon, Richard, xiv, 9, 52, 62, 86–90, 91, 113, 185–86, 234, 265
affirmative action and, 199–201
antiwar demonstrators and, 186–89, 191, 196–99, 206
Calley and, 148
Graham and, 206–7
Honor America Day and, 206–8
Hope and, 206–7, 210
Kennedy and, 9–10
pardoning of, 223
Paris Accords and, 221
POWs and, 244–45
silent majority and, 62, 88, 196, 199
Vietnam War escalated by, 87, 88, 158, 164, 186–88
Vietnam War troop withdrawal and, 86–87, 186
Watergate and, 206, 222
Nol, Lon, 227
Noriega, Manuel, 293–95
Norris, Chuck, 248
North, Oliver, 292
North Korea, 234
nuclear weapons, 6, 38, 49, 56–57, 76–78, 151–52, 157, 163, 229, 282–83, 285, 293
Obama, Barack, xix, 305–6, 311, 329–33
O’Brien, Tim, 58, 84–86, 212, 268
Occupy movement, 316
O’Daniel, John “Iron Mike,” 13
“Ohio,” 190
oil, 228, 231, 233, 285, 297, 299, 300, 315
Okamoto, Vincent, 178–79
“Okie from Muskogee,” 125
O’Neil, Tip, 289
On the Beach, 152
Operation Arc Light, 153, 154
Operation Babylift, 31–32
Operation Desert Storm, 295–300
Operation Duck Hook, 87–88
Operation Just Cause, 295
Operation Passage to Freedom, 3, 29
Operation RAW (Rapid American Withdrawal), 215–16
Operation Rolling Thunder, 71, 73, 163, 164
Operation Speedy Express, 179–81
Operation Urgent Fury, 290
Oram, Harold, 21, 22
Orangeburg massacre, 201
Orlando, Tony, and Dawn, 236
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Shah, 96, 232, 233, 235, 284, 285
Palestinians, 288
Panama, 293–96
Pan Am Flight 103, 227
Panetta, Leon, 307–8
paper tiger, 73, 74, 76, 81
Paris Peace Accords, 221–22
patriotism, xvii, xviii, 124, 125, 184, 199, 201, 215, 237, 252, 256–58, 260, 312
commercialization of, 262
Patton, 90
Peace Corps, 9, 10, 121, 122, 128
Peale, Norman Vincent, 62
Pearl Harbor, 13, 157
Pentagon Papers, The, 26
Pepper, William, 58
Persian Gulf War, 242, 287, 295–300, 308
Petraeus, David, 324–30
Philadelphia Plan, 199–200
Phnom Penh, 227
Phoenix of Hiroshima, 30
Phoenix Program, 178–79
Phong, Duong Thanh, 154
Phuc, Kim, 267
pilots, 158–59, 271
Platoon, 257 258
Pledge of Allegiance, 11, 265
Pleiku, 64–67, 70–71
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 284, 300
poverty, 317
Powell, Colin, 288–90, 295, 301, 323
Power, Samantha, 302
POW films, 246–49, 267
POW/MIA flag, 242–43
POWS, 242–50
“Pride Is Back, The,” 259–60
private contractors, 110
Problem from Hell, A (Power), 302
Project 100,000, 132–34
Project Beefup, 42, 77
Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare, 280
Pueblo, 234
Pye, Lucien, 31
Quang Duc, Thich, 23, 267, 269
Quang Ngai, 166–67
Quang Tin, 166–67
Quat, Phan Huy, 79
racism, 16–18, 172–73, 202, 261
Radford, Arthur, 94
Rambo films, 246–50
Ramparts, 19–21, 25, 58, 59, 142
Reader’s Digest, 8
Reagan, Ronald, xvii, xviii, 40, 107, 113, 186, 245, 257–59, 273, 283, 285, 322
Central America and, 275–76, 278–80, 282–83, 291
commercials for, 253–54
Grenada and, 290–91
Hussein and, 296
Iran-Contra and, 292–93
Lebanon and, 287–89
Noriega and, 294
POWs and, 244–46
Springsteen and, 252–53, 255, 259, 260
on Vietnam, 255–56, 285–86
religion, 4, 11–13
Catholicism, see Catholicism
Republican Convention, 191
Reuther, Walter, 197–98
Rhodes, James, 186–87, 207
Ribicoff, Abraham, 185
Ridenhour, Ron, 145–46
Rising Sun (Crichton), 262
Risner, Robert, 130–31
RMK-BRJ consortium, 110
Robbins, Tony, 260
Robinson, Jackie, 17
Rockefeller, John D., 22
“Rockin’ in the Free World,” 273
Rogers, Kenny, 260
Rolling Stone, 253
Romney, George, 140
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 22
Roosevelt, Franklin, 10, 49, 56, 112, 230
Roosevelt, Theodore, 320
Rostow, Lillian, 99
Rostow, Walt Whitman, 68, 99–104, 108, 115, 173, 266
Rostowsky, Victor, 99
Rove, Karl, 319
Ruddy, Francis, 120
Rumsfeld, Donald, 316, 320, 323, 324
Rusk, Dean, 42–43, 46–47, 68, 77, 81
Rusk, Howard, 57–58
Rwanda, 300, 302–4
Ryan, Jack, 282
Ryder, Nickie, 260
Saddam Hussein, 295–98, 310, 318, 326
Sadler, Barry, 123–24, 126
Saigon, 39, 41, 42, 70, 73, 81, 88, 96, 106, 115, 177,
221–22, 225
bombing near, 155, 156
fall of, 32, 102, 103, 222–24, 227
Hope in, 209
Salazar, Ruben, 204–6
Salisbury, Harrison, 161–62
Sanchez, Manolo, 199
Sandinistas, 276, 280
Sandino, Augusto, 276
Saturday Evening Post, 78, 120
Savio, Mario, 136–37
Scheer, Robert, 19–20
Schell, Jonathan, 29, 166–68
Scheuer, Sandy, 188, 189
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 13, 21
school desegregation, 201
school textbooks, 228, 258, 266–67
Schroeder, Bill, 188–89
Schweitzer, Albert, 9
search-and-destroy missions, 105, 170, 171
Sebba, Jon, 149
Selective Service System, 135–36
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 46–47, 49–51, 53, 112
September 11 terrorist attacks, xviii, 227, 228, 236, 287, 308–10, 312, 313, 315, 317, 319–21, 323, 332–33
Serbs, 300–302
Service, John Stewart, 70
Seven Sisters, 55–56
Sheehan, Casey, 314
Sheehan, Cindy, 314–15
Sheehan, Neil, 25
Sheen, Fulton J., 11
Shimkin, Alex, 180
Shultz, George, 290
Sick, Gary, 234
silent majority, 62, 88, 196, 199
Sir! No Sir!, 264
60 Minutes, 304
Skyraider, 165
slavery, xii, 229
Smith, Bob, 245
Smith, Wayne, 170, 172
Smith Act, 141
Sneaker News, 115
Snepp, Frank, 224–25
soldiers, 130–50, 211–12, 258
African American, 133, 137–42, 202
antiwar dissent among, 140–42
attempted murder of officers by, 214
demoralization in, 211
drafting of, 134–37, 258–59, 316–17
drug use by, 213–14
Green Berets, 120–30, 142–44, 272, 280
heroism of, 130
My Lai massacre and, xvi, 144–50, 180–81, 267, 308
pilots, 158–59, 271
POWS, 242–50
Project 100,000 and, 132–34
resistance by, 212–15
see also Vietnam veterans
Somalia, 300–303
Somoza, Anastasio, 96, 232, 276
South Africa, 283
South Carolina State University, 201
Southeast Asia: Building the Bases (Tregaskis), 107–8
South Pacific, 16, 18
Soviet Union, 4, 6, 7, 17, 35–37, 95, 245, 284, 293
Afghanistan and, 318, 321–22
Berlin and, 77, 293
Cuba and, 76–78
Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 11–13, 21, 30
Spitting Image, The (Lembcke), 237
Spock, Benjamin, 61–62
Springsteen, Bruce, 251–56, 259
Stages of Economic Growth, The: A Non-Communist Manifesto (Rostow), 100–101
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