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76. “MINIMUM ESSENTIAL FORCE”: PP, II, 511.
77. PROTEST SEEN AS “ENCOURAGING THE COMMUNISTS”: Harris, 67.
78. JOHNSON’S RATING TURNS NEGATIVE: ibid., 60.
79. “SPIRITUAL CONFUSION”: Beyond Vietnam, 6. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES: Logue and Patton, 324. KING, “GREATEST PURVEYOR”: NYT, 5 Apr 67.
80. “YOU VOTED IN ‘64 …”: NYT, 6 Nov 66.
81. LIPPMANN, “DECENT PEOPLE NO LONGER SUPPORT”: Steel, 571.
82. JAMES THOMSON LETTER: NYT, 4 June 67.
83. GENERAL SHOUP, “POPPYCOCK”: NYT obit., 16 Jan 83.
84. POLL, 48 YES, 48 NO: Logue and Patton, 326.
85. PHAM VAN DONG, “BASIS FOR SETTLEMENT”: 3 Jan 67, Cooper, 501.
86. AMERICANS AND NORTH VIETNAMESE CONFERRED: Kraslow, 167–74, Cooper, 346–7.
87. TWO AMERICANS TO HANOI: Ashmore and Baggs, Kraslow, 200. U THANT, “CALCULATED RISK”: ibid., 208.
88. LBJ, “MORE THAN OUR PART”: 31 Dec 66. LETTER TO HO CHI MINH: Kraslow, 206.
89. “DEEP CONVICTION IN HANOI”: q. Gelb, 164, from unpublished PP vols.
90. HAROLD WILSON-KOSYGIN NEGOTIATION: Kraslow, 186–98, Herring, 168–9.
91. MC NAUGHTON, “SUCCESSFULLY, OR ELSE”: May 67 Memorandum for President, PP, IV, 477–9.
92. “HE WAS A MISERABLE MAN”: Moyers to author.
93. STENNIS HEARINGS: PP, IV, 199–204; Sharp, ibid., 191–7.
94. MC NAMARA, “DESTROYING THE COUNTRYSIDE”: q. Macpherson, 430–1. COLLEAGUES STARED: ibid.
95. CIA, “SO INTOLERABLE”: q. Cohen, 277. STUDY IN DOLLAR VALUES: PP, IV, 136. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS, SUPPLY ROUTES: ibid., 223. “WE ARE UNABLE TO DEVISE”: ibid., 224–5.
96. BOMB TOTAL 1.5 MILLION TONS: PP, IV, 216.
97. AUBRAC-MARCOVICH MISSION: July 67, Kraslow.
98. BURCHETT, “DEEP SKEPTICISM”: Kraslow, 227–8.
99. Saturday Evening Post: 18 Nov 67.
100. “DESTROY THE TOWN IN ORDER TO SAVE IT”: heard by public over TV. The town was Ben Tre. Wall Street Journal. 23 Feb 68.
101. CLIFFORD TASK FORCE: Schandler, 121–76; Clifford, Foreign Affairs.
102. KENNAN, “MEN IN A DREAM”: q. Hoopes, Limits, 178.
103. CLIFFORD’S TOUR OF SEATO NATIONS: ibid., 169–71.
104. DISENCHANTMENT: Clifford, Foreign Affairs; Hoopes, Limits, 186–95. NITZE: ibid., 199.
105. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS: PP, IV, 558.
106. CLIFFORD, “NOT ONLY ENDLESS BUT HOPELESS”: Clifford, Foreign Affairs.
107. SENATOR TYDINGS: Macpherson, 420. DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE TELEGRAM: q. Powers, 300.
108. CRONKITE BROADCAST: transcript supplied by Mr. Cronkite.
109. “THE SHOCK WAVES”: q. Schandler, 198.
110. Time, “VICTORY IN VIETNAM”: 15 Mar 68.
111. SENATE FRC HEARINGS: NYT, 8 Mar 68. QUESTIONED AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT: Schandler, 211. “WE JUST COULDN’T”: Senator Jackson, q. ibid.
112. ACHESON REVIEW: Hoopes, Limits, 205; Kendrick, 259.
113. SPEECH TO NATIONAL FARMERS UNION: NYT, 19 Mar 68. ROWE REPORTS CALLS: Rowe Mem. to President, 19 Mar 68, q. Schandler, 249.
114. “WISE MEN” CONFERENCE: Ridgway, Foreign Affairs, PP, IV, 266–8; Ball, 407–09.
115. CLIFFORD, “TREMENDOUS EROSION”: Macpherson, 435; Hoopes, Limits, 219.
116. CABLET TO AMBASSADORS: PP, IV, 595.
117. WHEELER TO CINCPAC ON DECREASE OF SUPPORT: q. Schandler, 279.
118. FIELD AGENTS TELEPHONED: Theodore White, 118.
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1. “IF THE WAR GOES ON SIX MONTHS”: to Harrison Salisbury; Salisbury to author, “END UP LIKE LBJ”: q. Herring, 219.
2. REISCHAUER, NO GUARANTEE: Beyond Vietnam, 19.
3. RAND RANGE OF OPTIONS: Konrad Kellen, one of the RAND specialists, to author.
4. “ACCEPTABLE INTERVAL”: q. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Spec. Supp., D2.
5. AN AMERICAN SERGEANT, AWOLS: q. Richard Dudman, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Spec. Supp., D10.
6. “NOVEMBER OPTION”: Szulc, 152.
7. “A LITTLE FOURTH-RATE POWER”: q. ibid., 150.
8. “DORMANT BEAST”: Kissinger, 244.
9. ARMS FOR VIETNAMIZATION: G. Warren Nutter, Asst. Sec. of Defense under Nixon, in Am. Enterprise Vietnam Settlement, 71.
10. “LOSE THE WAR IN VIETNAM—BRING THE BOYS HOME”: q. Kissinger, 307. “BUMS”: q. Herring, 232. Mitchell, “LIKE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION”: q. Kendrick, 296.
11. “SOUGHT TO DESTROY HIM”: Kissinger, 299.
12. “TO END THE WAR IN A WAY”: q. Theodore White, 130.
13. BURKE, “SHOW THE THING YOU CONTEND FOR”: Speech