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...committee, headed by historian C. Vann Woodward, cited potential violence and property damage as the reasons for their recommendations...
...knew this basically in the fall of '69 from a number of people, one of them being Morton Halperin, one of them being John Vann, I'll mention him now because he's dead, and some other people in the government. I refer you to Roger Morris's piece in the Washington Monthly, in which Morris discloses--he was Kissinger's assistant--that Henry Kissinger came back from his first meeting with Xuan Thuy in September of 1969, and asked his staff including Morris to prepare full plans for a "savage" blow against North Vietnam that would bring them...
...Harvard A-team managed to cling within striking range of the Tigers until the contest's last ten minutes. Down 8-0 early in the second half, it capitalized on a try by wing forward Tommy Vann to narrow the margin to 8-4. Dave Wagner followed quickly with a conversion, making...
Ellsberg also said the antiwar moratoriums of 1969 apparently "derailed" Nixon administration plans to mine Haiphong harbor that fall, two and a half years before the eventual mining occurred. And as in any spy story, Ellsberg cited some sources--a Washington Monthly article, Morton Halperin and John Paul Vann--while leaving others, such as National Security Council members, unnamed...
Like Faulkner's Quentin Compson, Donald traces his historical urge (and that of C. Vann Woodward, Francis Simkins and other historians from the South) to a wrestling with the contradiction between ideals and practice in the Southern experience...