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47., Schandler, pp. 134-137.
48. Gelb with Betts, p, 175.
49. Ibid; Gravel Pentagon Papers, Vol. 4, p. 557; and Townsend Hoopes,
The Limits of Intervention: An Inside Account of How the Johnson
Policy of Escalation was Reversed (New York: McKay, 1969), pp,
145-146.
50. Gelo with Betts, p. 175; Robert Gallucci, Neither Peace Nor Honor:
The Politics of American Military Policy in Viet-Nam, Washington
Center of Foreign Policy Reserarch, School of Advanced International
Studies, Stuuies in International Affairs (Baltimore: Jo'ns Hopkins
University Pre-s, 1975), pp. 123-124; and Gravel Pentagon Papers Vol.
IV, pp. 561-568 and 583.
51. Quoted in Schandler, p. 255; also see pp. 175, 247 and 25At.
S52. Gelb with Betts, p. 176.
53. Ibid.
54. Quoted in Schandler, p. 162; also see Hoopes p. 204.
Gelb with Betts, Sj5. p. 176; and Oberdorfer, pp. 289-290.
56. Quoted from Schandler, pp. 139, 226-228.
57. Ibid. pp. "31-232.
58. Gravel Pentagon Papers, Vol IV, P. 602, This ceiling was never
actually attained. The highest total of troops in RVN, reached early
in 1969, was 543,000. See Henry Kissinger, White House Years (B.ton:
Little, Crown & Co., 1979), p. 235.
59., Jonnson, p. 387.
60. Gelb with Betts, pp. 176-178.
61. Kissinger, pp. 235-236.
S62. Ibid. pp. 319-320.
63. Walter G. Hermes, "Global Pressures and thL Flexihle Response," pp.
615-616; and Douglas Kinnard, The War Managers ic,. 123-124.
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