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79. Kaplan et al., The McNamara Ascendancy, p. 531.
3. THE CREDO RESTORED
1. J. William Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power (New York, 1966), pp. 3–4.
2. Fulbright, Arrogance, pp. 3, 15.
3. Fulbright, Arrogance, pp. 32, 121, 248, 252.
4. Fulbright, Arrogance, pp. 138, 248.
5. Fulbright, Arrogance, pp. 14, 21.
6. Fulbright, Arrogance, pp. 20, 134–135, 217.
7. Fulbright, Arrogance, pp. 5, 127, 185, 199.
8. Fulbright, Arrogance, pp. 202, 250.
9. Fulbright, Arrogance, pp. 253, 256.
10. For an admiring profile, see Howard Jablon, “General David M. Shoup, USMC: Warrior and War Protester,” Journal of Military History 60 (July 1996): 513–538.
11. The quotes come from a speech Shoup made at the Tenth Annual Junior College World Affairs Day, Pierce College, Los Angeles, California, May 14, 1966, reprinted in Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Present Situation in Vietnam, March 20, 1968, pp. 44–51.
12. “General Shoup Derides U.S. Stand on Vietnam,” Washington Post, December 19, 1967.
13. For a complete transcript of this exchange, see Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Present Situation in Vietnam, March 20, 1968, pp. 1–44.
14. David M. Shoup, “The New American Militarism,” The Atlantic, April 1969.
15. Seymour M. Hersh, “Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against Anti-War Forces, Other Dissidents in Nixon Years,” New York Times, December 22, 1974, p. A1. This is the story that revealed CIA domestic spying activities.
16. Gerald K. Haines, “The Pike Committee Investigations and the CIA,” https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/pdf/v42i5a07p.pdf.
17. Russell F. Weigley, History of the United States Army (New York, 1967), p. 569.
18. “Military Basic Pay and Allowances,” http://www.dfas.mil/militarypay/militarypaytables/militarypaypriorrates/1965.pdf.
19. “Withdrawal of Troops Asked,” Evening Prescott [Arizona] Courier, May 16, 1966, http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=918&dat=19660516&id=ZP4KAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aFADAAAAIBAJ&
pg=4110,354870.
20. Don Oberdorfer, Senator Mansfield (New York, 2003), pp. 311–313.
21. The War Powers Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-148), http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/legal22/warpow.htm.
22. For a discussion of the U.S. military reform project after Vietnam, see Andrew J. Bacevich, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (New York, 2005), pp. 34–68.
23. Anthony Lake, ed., The Vietnam Legacy: The War, American Society, and the Future of American Foreign Policy (New York, 1976), p. xxiii.
24. Lake, ed., The Vietnam Legacy, p. 120.
25. Lake, ed., The Vietnam Legacy, p. xii.
26. Lake, ed., The Vietnam Legacy, p. 64.
27. Lake, ed., The Vietnam Legacy, p. 91.
28. Lake, ed., The Vietnam Legacy, p. 354.
29. Lake, ed., The Vietnam Legacy, p. 410.
30. Lake, ed., The Vietnam Legacy, pp. xiii, xvii, xxi.
31. Martin Luther King, “Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam,” April 1967, www.h-net.org/~hst203/documents/King.html.
32. Lest the reader think that Lake’s Vietnam Legacy is unique, see also W. Scott Thompson and Donaldson D. Frizzell, eds., The Lessons of Vietnam (New York, 1977). The cast of characters differs, but the approach and the conclusions are the same.
33. Republican Party Platform of 1980, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showplatforms.php?platindex=R1980. The document contains brief references to the nation of Vietnam, condemning its human rights record.
34. Ronald Reagan, “Address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention in Chicago,” August 18, 1980, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=85202.
35. “The Munich Analogy,” http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/E-N/The-Munich-Analogy-Reagan-bush-and-the-gulf-war.html.
36. For the record, Clinton fought and lost a war in Somalia, intervened in Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, and bombed the Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq, the latter on innumerable occasions. Clinton’s version of maintaining a global military presence included stationing U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, which set the stage for the Khobar Towers bombing of June 25, 1996, and ordering