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* Another loop was closed the day after my resignation, when I traveled to Manhattan, Kansas, to deliver the Landon Lecture at Kansas State University. Joyce and I were met by retired General and Kansas native Dick Myers and his wife, Mary Jo. Joyce and I felt good to be back in the Midwest and out of Washington, D.C.—we were at peace and knew the events of the past few days were for the best. Myers made some moving and gracious remarks about our service together. He recalled I used to joke that I spent more time with him than with Joyce.18
* It is worth noting, however, that before the surge’s success was known, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared it a failure, and noted, “[T]his war is lost.” Senator Barack Obama also expressed concern that the surge would not succeed.13
Table of Contents
Author’s Note
PART I
Lessons in Terror
CHAPTER 1 Smiling Death
CHAPTER 2 Into the Swamp
PART II
An American, Chicago Born
CHAPTER 3 The Last of Spring
CHAPTER 4 The Longest of Long Shots
PART III
The U.S. Congress: From Camelot to Quagmire
CHAPTER 5 “Here, Sir, the People Govern”
CHAPTER 6 Young Turks
PART IV
In Nixon’s Arena
CHAPTER 7 1968: Year of Turmoil
CHAPTER 8 The Job That Couldn’t Be Done
CHAPTER 9 Counsellor
CHAPTER 10 NATO and Nixon’s Fall
PART V
Javelin Catcher: Inside the Ford White House
CHAPTER 11 Restoring Trust
CHAPTER 12 A Rocky Start
CHAPTER 13 An Agonizing Reappraisal
PART VI
Fighting the Cold War
CHAPTER 14 Unfinished Business
CHAPTER 15 Turning On the Lights
CHAPTER 16 Hold the SALT: Tension over Détente
CHAPTER 17 The 1976 Defeat
PART VII
Back to Reality
CHAPTER 18 Searle’s Sweet Success
CHAPTER 19 From Malaise to Morning in America
CHAPTER 20 Our Rural Period, Interrupted
PART VIII
Leaning Forward
CHAPTER 21 Here We Go Again
CHAPTER 22 Dogs Don’t Bark at Parked Cars
CHAPTER 23 Bears in the Woods
CHAPTER 24 The National Security Council
CHAPTER 25 The Agony of Surprise
CHAPTER 26 War President
PART IX
Into the Graveyard of Empires
CHAPTER 27 Special Operations
CHAPTER 28 Little Birds in a Nest
CHAPTER 29 Kabul Falls, Karzai Rises
PART X
Saddam’s Miscalculation
CHAPTER 30 Out of the Box
CHAPTER 31 The Case for Regime Change
CHAPTER 32 A Failure of Diplomacy
CHAPTER 33 Exit the Butcher of Baghdad
PART XI
The Occupation of Iraq
CHAPTER 34 Catastrophic Success
CHAPTER 35 Mission Accomplished?
CHAPTER 36 Too Many Hands on the Steering Wheel
CHAPTER 37 Liberation from the Occupation
PART XII
Wartime Detention
CHAPTER 38 The Least Worst Place
CHAPTER 39 The Twentieth Hijacker
CHAPTER 40 Law in a Time of War
CHAPTER 41 The Road Not Traveled
PART XIII
Pulling On Our Boots: Challenges and Controversies Beyond the War Zones
CHAPTER 42 Katrina and the Challenge of New Institutions
CHAPTER 43 Gardening
CHAPTER 44 The Army We Had
PART XIV
The Long, Hard Slog
CHAPTER 45 Hands Off the Bicycle Seat
CHAPTER 46 The Dead Enders
CHAPTER 47 Eyes on Afghanistan
CHAPTER 48 Iraq’s Summer of Violence
CHAPTER 49 Farewells
CHAPTER 50 After Tides and Hurricanes
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
List of Illustrations
Notes
Photographic Insert