The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships, Part III: January-July 1965; S. Prt. 100-163, Pr. 3
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. xvi, 489, [7] pages. Vol. III only. Wraps. Map. Footnotes. Appendix. Index. Slight wear and soiling to covers. "This is a study of U.S. government policymaking during the 30 years of the Vietnam war, 1945-75, beginning with the 1945-1960 period. Although focusing on the course of events in Washington and between Washington and U.S. officials on the scene, it also depicts major events and trends in Vietnam to which the U.S. was responding, as well as the state of American public opinion and public activity directed at supporting or opposing the war."--Preface from Volume I. Volume 2 of a five-volume study prepared for the Committee on Foreign Relations of the U.S. Senate on the formulation of Vietnam policy during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. This second volume begins with the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, and continues through President Lyndon B. Johnson's first year in office. During these four years, the U.S. commitment was expanded, and the number of American military personnel in Vietnam rose from 800 to almost 20,000. Part III, which begins in January 1965 and ends in January 1967, treats the watershed period of U.S. involvement in the war, from President Johnson's decision to bomb North Vietnam and to send U.S. ground forces into South Vietnam, through the buildup of military forces and political cadres required by the new U.S. role in the war. This volume examines Johnson's policymaking, his interaction with military advisors and with Congressional critics such as Mike Mansfield, and his reactions as protests against the war began to grow. Condition: very good.
Keywords: Vietnam War, Indochina, Lyndon B. Johnson, Politics and Government, Gulf of Tonkin, Foreign Relations, McGeorge Bundy, Pleiku, Qui Nhon, ROLLING THUNDER, Acheson-Ball, Westmoreland, William Bundy, Goodpaster, McNamara, Intelligence Estimates, Nguyen
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