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29. MacDonald, p. 24.
30, Bernard Fall, Last Reflections on a War (Garden City, NY: Doubleday,
1907), p., 147.
31, DOD US/VN Relations, See Cable, Douglas Dillion to Secretary of State,
July 29, !953, Book 9 of 12, V.B.3., pp, 107-108.
32. Theodore Sorenson, Kennedy (New York: Harpers & Row, li%5), p. 639.
33. Leslie H Gelb, "Vietnam: The System Worked," Beyond Containment:
US Foreign Policy in Transition, Edited by kobert W. Tucker and
William Watts (Wash'ngtrn D.C.: Potomac Associates, 1973), p. 45.
34. Ibid. Ly
I 36.
?5. Cablegram from Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge to Secretary of State Dean
Rusk, August 29, 1963, Subject: US Policy Toward a Coup, Reprinted
in Gravel Pentagon Papers, pp. 738-739.
The Coup D'Etat of November 1, 1963 (Original title: "Fronm the Day of
the First Republic's Overthrow to the Day the qecond Republic of Vietnar:
was Founded."), from the private files of Lucien Corein. Copy provided'
Lo BDM on August. 25, 1979, p. 43; hereafter referred to as tl- GVN
"White Paper" or the Diem Coup.
37. ENDNOTE DELETED
38. The GVN "White Paper" on the Diem Coup, p. 61.
39. General William C, Westmoreland, "Vietnam in Perspective," The Retired
Officer, October '1978, pp. 21-24.
40 President Lyndon B. Johnson in an address to the nation from the White
House in Washington, D.C., or July 28, 196!; and as quoted in the
Department of the US Army study "Pacification and Lonq-Term Development
of Vietnam (short title: PROVN), published in 1966, Annex F,
"Trace of US Policy and 05jectives in Time," F-33,
41. Gelb, p. 48.
42. Ibid.
43. MacDonald, p. 43.
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