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CHAPTER 8 ENDNOTES
I, Sir Rcbert Thompson, "Military Victory. Political Defeat - the
of US Strategy in Vietnam," International Defense Review
_•(June 1974):, 729,
. 2. Allan E.. Goodman, The Lost Pvace (Stanford, California: Hoover
Institution Press. 978), pp 7 7-178; quoting the late Hubert H,
H-jmphre,.
3. Henry Kissinger, White House Years (Boston: Little, Brown and Company,
1979), p. 1462.,
4. Ibid., p. i462.
5. Stephen T. Hosmer, Konrad Kellen, and Brian M. Jenkins. The Fall of
South Vietnam: Statements by Vietnamese Military and Civ-iiin Leaders.
Report prepa.'ed for 'Historian, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Monica, California: S(Santa The RAND Corporation, 1978, R-2208-0D
(HIST), p 11; and General Cao Van Vien, The Final Collapse, ndoi
china Refagce Autnored Monograph Program. Prepared for Department of
tjie Army, Office of Chief of Military History (McLean, Virginia:
General Research Corporation, 1976), p. 5.
6. Tad Szulc, "How Kissinger Did It. Behind the Cease-Fire Agreement,"
Foreign Policy 16 (Summer 1971), p. 23; and Kissinger, p. 1373.
7. Leslie H, Gelb with Richard K. Betts, The Irooy of Vietnam: The
System Werked (Washington, D.C., The Tr-ookings Institution, 1979), p.
350,
8. Goodman, pp. 188-189.
9. Department of State Brief~nt, Paper ("Aldridge Memo.") "Interpretations
of the Agreement 'n E-ding the War and Restoring Peace in
I Vietnam, (U)," pp. 1-13. see also Szulc, pp. 64-66,
S10. Vien, p. ?4; and Hosmer, 2t al., p. 7T
11. Guenter Lewy, America in Vietnam (New York: Oxford University Press,
12.. 1978), p. 206.
12, Figure 8-1 Doug Van Khuyen, The RVNAF, Indochina Refugee Authored
Monograph Program. Prepared for Department of the Army, Office of
Chief of Military History (McLean, Virginia: General Research Cor-
"poration, 1978), p. 281.
13. Lewy, p. 206.
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