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CHAPTER 6 ENDNOTES
1.. Henlry Kissinger, White House Years (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 19•)
4 p., IIII¾
2, Ibid.,, p. 274,
3. In White House Years Kissinger points out that the term "de-AmericanizeT'wa-s
used by General Goor;paster in a briefing to the President.
Secretary of Defense Laird said that a term was needed to place emphasis
on the right issues -- a term like "Vietnamization." Hence the
term wac born,
4. Charles MacDonald, An Outline History of US Policy Toward Vietnam
(Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1978), p., 74.
5., Kissinger, White House Years, p. 271,
6. Memorandum for the President from Henry Kissinger, September 10, 1969,
subject "Our Present Course in Vietnam," Reprinted in White Hcuse
Years, pp. I480-1482. Also see Henry Kissinger, "Vietnam Negotiati
onT, Foreign Affairs, Janury l969; and John Stoessinger, henry
Kissinger: The Anguish of Pcwer (New York: W.W. Norton, 1976), p. 51.
"7, Allen E. Goodman, The Lost Peace (Stanford, Cal.: Hoover Institution
Press, 1978), p 87.
8. Ibid., p. 78-79.
9, Ibid., p. 87,.
10. Kissinger, sup-a note 6, pp. 1481-1482.
lbI, Goudman, p. 87.
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i2, Thomas Thayer, "Series B, Tactical Warfare Analysis of Vietnam Data",
Journal of Defense ResearcA, Volume 7B Number 3, Fall 197?5 Prepared
Battelle Columbus Laboratories for the Advanced Research Projects
Agency of the Department of Defense. Recently declassified. See
4ppendix A to this chapter for a table depicting the buildup and withdrawal
of US forces in RVN, exL,'acted from this study.
A 13. Colonel Edward F,. Astarita, US Army (Ret) was tne chief withdrawal
planner for General Creighton Abrams, COMUSMACV. Col Astarita
d*rected the planning, and presented briefings on the withdrawal
planning to CINCPAC, the Chairman of the JCS &nd Secretary of Defense.
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