Word: kraslow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responsible for keeping track of peace probes. It operated under the direction of Averill Harriman, but as the War progressed, it gradually withered into a front toward which Johnson could gesture when his desire for peace was questioned. The story of Harriman's group as told by Kraslow and Loory illustrates one rule of executive decision-making: when an executive organization is not nourished by presidential concern it wilts. Harriman had neither the President's ear nor a security clearance which would have permitted him to do his job. Harriman did not even know of Marigold after it began...
...Draper, Kraslow and Loory tell the story, the United States has failed in several political arenas. According to Draper, it has failed in Saigon and in the hamlets of the countryside to encourage the political development which could have competed with the Viet Cong infrastructure for the allegiance of the Vietnamese people. Both The Secret Search and the Abuse of Power also show very clearly that U.S. leaders have failed as propagandists--with tragic domestic results. And finally The Secret Search argues persuasively that the Johnson Administration has failed at the task of diplomacy as well...
ACCORDING to Kraslow and Loory, the coordination problem arose largely as result of a decision by Lyndon Johnson to gather into his own hands, and those of his top advisors, the day by day controls over the war. By June, 1966, Johnson's concern with the war was so great that he, Rusk and McNamara were choosing at Tuesday lunches all the sites to be bombed for the coming week. This was simply more detail than he could handle, and with his vast responsibilities he had little time to follow the progress of peace initiatives. The one bureaucratic agency which...
...delivered a clear warning that the bombings might hurt the Marigold initiative though he refused to guarantee that he was speaking at Hanoi's request. Johnson was now aware of both the bombing plans and the danger to the peace talks. He chose to go ahead with the bombing. Kraslow and Loory speculate Johnson had decided that by now Marigold had little chance of succeeding, and that if the North really wanted to talk, one little bombing more or less wouldn't hurt...
...October 1966, according to Kraslow and Loory, Dean Rusk told Thant that Stevenson actually rejected the peace proposal on his own initiative, a contention which stunned Thant. Stevenson, dead by that time, had always worked indefatigably for peace in Vietnam...