Word: morgenthau
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Walter M. Licht '67 and Robert LaRocca '68, the liberals, convincingly describe (complete with footnoted sources) a vicious circle of original military commitment which could only have led to further involvement. The authors agree with Hans Morgenthau that the U.S. is caught because of its basic misconception of its role in world affairs. Licht and LaRocca see escape from the circle in total withdrawal of U.S. forces and a Vietnam government led by the National Liberation Front. Many American liberals, however, might object to their designation of the NLF as the sole legitimate representative of the South Vietnamese people...
...this new book in which Author Tuchman sets out to "discover the quality of the world from which the Great War came"-whose guns she set thundering memorably in Guns of August two years ago. Granddaughter of a onetime ambassador to Turkey, niece of former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., a Radcliffe graduate ('33) and wife of a Park Avenue physician, Mrs. Tuchman proved in Guns that she could write better military history than most men. In this sequel, she tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding, eschewing both the sweeping generalizations of a Toynbee...
...inherent dangers in the writing of "insider" memoirs, and no one was more aware of these dangers than John F. Kennedy. When he first came to the White House, he told his aides that he did not want them recording his idle comments and irreverent wisecracks, as Henry Morgenthau had done with Franklin Roosevelt or as Emmet John Hughes was later to do with Dwight Eisenhower. Kennedy frankly hoped to be his own biographer. Once, so the story goes, Kennedy caught Schlesinger pounding at his typewriter, and quipped: "Now Arthur, cut it out. When the time comes...
...booze allowance" (Congressman John Rooney) but under a flood of paper work springing from "the bureaucratic necessity that everyone has to write so much to justify his existence" (Ambassador to Kenya William Attwood), while working under an overall policy based on "the lowest anti-Communist denominator" (Professor Hans Morgenthau) with a surplus of "pedestrian people" (former Ambassador James Gavin) headed by a Secretary with an "irrevocably conventional mind" (Arthur Schlesinger...
...Morgenthau, as a "realist" thinker concerned with America's security, would agree that the United States must oppose Communist threats at certain places and under certain conditions. His disagreement with the "realists" in Washington-say, with McGeorge Bundy-derives from his differential view of the Vietnamese situation and from his different hierarchy of values in the realm of foreign affairs. Thus Bundy apparently rates the American national interest in South Vietnam as relatively high, while Morgenthau sees it as relatively low. But even more important, Bundy and Morgenthau disagree on the cost, as determined by values, of sending thousands...