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The Limits of Intervention - How Vietnam Policy Was Made and Reversed During the Johnson Administration (Paperback, New edition)
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The Limits of Intervention - How Vietnam Policy Was Made and Reversed During the Johnson Administration (Paperback, New edition)
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Loot Price R545
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Hoopes' book is "first a memoir and then, perhaps, a history" of
the six months of vitriol and vacillation over Vietnam that
culminated in LBJ's bombshell announcement of March 31, 1968, that
he was refusing military requests for a major new infusion of
troops, proclaiming a partial bombing halt, asking North Vietnam
for negotiations, and withdrawing from the 1968 Presidential race.
Obviously there is no attempt at impartiality in a book which calls
the war an "intractable tragedy" on the first page, and in the
course of the narrative Hoopes (as Under Secretary of the Air
Force) politely plies his superiors with increasingly dovish
memoranda. But the real hero of the story is Clark Clifford, newly
appointed Secretary of Defense, whose own personal volte-face to
the dove faction (et tu, Clark?) was decisive in bringing the
President round. Hoopes gives some consideration to how we got in
(a "fateful combination" of LBJ's uncertainty in foreign affairs
and his advisors' simplistic Cold War dogmatism) and how we can get
out, but his real contribution is the clearly written inside
information on the Administration in work and fray. (Kirkus
Reviews)
How the war in Vietnam came to represent the outer limits of
feasible American intervention, how the working of the democratic
process finally forced President Johnson to abandon a policy of
escalation, and why the particular events of March 1968 signaled
the end of an era constitute the subject matter of this
prize-winning, firsthand account. As under secretary of the Air
Force from October 1967 to February 1969, Townsend Hoopes had an
insider s perspective on events. His book is both compelling memoir
and searching historical inquiry. For this new paperback edition,
Mr. Hoopes has written a supplemental chapter interpreting the
final events of 1973-75 and assessing with masterful clarity the
whole period of American involvement in Vietnam, from 1945 to
1975."
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