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57. DROVN St.'dy, Annex F; and Generals MacArthur ard Ridgway both were
among many former military leaders who continued against US combat
involvement on tne mainland of Asia.
58. Gelb, Bt&yond Containment, p. 47,
59. MacDonald, p.. 51 and Gelb, Beyond Containment, p, 49.
60. George Ball, "A Light That Failed," Atlantic Monthly, July 1972, p.
41"
61. General Westmoreland's Private Papers, OCMH, Washington, D.C. History
Back Up File (Mar 27-May ,, 1965); see Memo for the Record, Meeting of
Ambassador Taylor with Secretary of State Rusk and Consultation
Papers, April 1965.
62. Leslie h. Gelb with Richard Betts, Ine Irony of Vietnam: The System
Worked (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institutior, 1979), p. 145;
and DOD US-VN Relat-ons, Book 6 of 12, IV, C, 11. pp. 125-127.
63., Gelb with Betts, p. 145.
64. General William C. Westmoreland, A Soldier Reports (Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, 1976), p. 176; and quoted in Gelb with Betts, p. 145.
65, Gelb with Betts, pp.. 145-146.
66. DOD, US-VN Relations, Book 6 of 12, IV, C, 11. p. 127.
67. ttional Security Decision Memorandum (NSDM) Nr. 9, April 1, 1969.
58. Henry Kissinger, White House Years (Boston, Mass. Little, Brown and
Co., 1979), pp 272-273; and, MacDonald, pp 74-75.
69, Kissinger, White House Years, p. 276.
70. Quoted MacDonald, p. 76.
71. MacDonald, p. 91; and Kissinger, Wnite House Years, pF. 1473-1476,
72. Guenter Lewy, America In Vietnam (New Yorkf Oxford Universitv Press.
1978), p. 204.
73. Interview with Ambassador
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Ellsworth Bunker at The
on Se, ember
BDM Corp, McLean,
11, 1979; and Interview
Va.
at his Washingtun D.C.
with Ambassado,
residence by
Samuel Berger
BDM Corp study team on June 22, 1979,
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