Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assembled a "Handbook for Doves" yet, but The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam should make the task infinitely easier. It is a quiet book. It does its work methodically and dryly, with a sure but muffled sense for the dramatic...
David Kraslow and Stuart Loorv, two Los Angeles Times correspondents, compiled this account of the Johnson Administration's diplomatic efforts to arrange peace in Vietnam after an elaborate research effort which took them literally all over the world. The record they relate is dismal at best, but their conclusion, like their treatment of their data, is low-key and pleasantly devoid of the rhetoric which so often invades studies of the Vietnam problem...
...Power, and in some respects this later book just misses being a perfect last chapter to Draper's work. While Draper is far more ambitious, surveying the whole panorama of the U.S. involvement, and also more polemical, the two works have a common message: the U.S. has sought in Vietnam to settle by force a problem it would not, and probably could not, handle by political means...
...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 could have coordinated the peace and war efforts, the Vietnam Working Group at the Vietnam desk of the State Department, had become by this time little more than a propaganda organ which sent its members around the country defending Administration policy...
...said that the "very, very tiny group" was "bent on stopping the university." At the same time, he characterized the majority of radicals and members of SDS as "fine, upstanding students with great integrity who believe that the Vietnam war is a horrible mistake...