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...many case studies in The Secret Search, the author's treatment of the Marigold initiative is most instructive and most exciting. The account of this abortive attempt at arranging talks occupies a full third of the book, and Benjamin Read, chief assistant to Dean Rusk and one of the few people in government who has access to the full story, has assured one faculty member here that the account of this incident from late in 1966 is "90 per cent" accurate...
...Marigold initiative was killed by two sets of bombing raids on Hanoi during the most delicate phases of the diplomatic effort. Cynics may find this hard to believe, but the first set of bombings--December 2 and December 4--were mistakes and nothing more. As The Secret Search relates, only one official in the vast web of American government, a deputy assistant Secretary of State, happened to know about both the military's plan to bomb Hanoi and the peace initiative; and he was buried away in the State Department bureaucracy with no decision making power, and, due to security...
...Loory, both able Washington correspondents for the Los Angeles Times, illustrate the point with a wealth of diligently acquired detail, much of it, indeed, secret. In late 1966, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge conferred repeatedly with a Polish diplomat who shuttled between Hanoi and Saigon. Shrouded plans (code-named "Marigold" by the State Department) were laid for a U.S.-North Vietnamese meeting in Warsaw on Dec. 6. Two weeks before, however, the White House had approved a bombing list including previously off-limits targets in Hanoi. Because of rain and high winds the strikes did not actually take place until...
...more than its share of trouble and tragedy. Only his youngest sister Mary, now 46, who is married to Britain's Ambassador-designate to France Christopher Soames and is the mother of five children, has managed to live a normal life. Randolph's second-youngest sister, Marigold died in infancy in 1921. His sister Sarah, three years his junior, is afflicted by the "deep belief that I was an accident" and has frequently been arrested for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. His eldest sister Diana, who was married for 25 years to onetime Tory Defense Secretary Duncan Sandys, committed...
...finished cutting a third, in which he intones such golden oldies as A Visit from St. Nicholas and Silent Night while a 22-man orchestra and ten-man choir make moan in the background. As for that craving, it often finds outlet in his campaign to make the marigold the national flower, though Ev confessed that he had been nursing his thespian urgings for years, had in fact decided on a stage career when he was just a tad but "my mother wouldn...