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14, Szulc, p. 64.
15. Ibid., p. 22.
16., Graphic compiled from infornation appearing in Colonel Hoang Ngoc
Lung. Intelligence. Indochina Rerugee Authored Monograph Program.
Prepared for Department of the Army, Office of Chief of Military
History (McLean, Virginia. General Research Corporation, 1976), p.
131" and interview with Michel Costino, LTC USA (Ret) a former Defense
Attacl-. It should be noted that although the section coordinating
the aid effort was attached to the DAO in Sainon, it reported to a .JS
military headquarters in Thailand; See also Szulc, pp. Z2-23.
17. Lewy, p. 206.
18. For a detailed dicussion of the US Congress and its reassertive role
in US foreign policy making, see Volume III, Chapter - "Washington
and Vietnam: US Ndtional Level Policy Making and Th- Policy Making
Process," and Appendix A - "Significant US National Policy Decisions
Which Influenced US Military Invulvement in Vietnam," (Mecisions
#16-17). See also VcIme IV, Chapte: 5 - "Domestic Poiitical Factors
Influencing Vietnam War Decision MaKing."
19. Lewy, p. 207; Cao V3n Vien, p. 4; and Douglas Kinnard, The War
Menagers (Hanover New Hamps;,ire: University Press of New England,
1977), pp. 154-155.
20. Ibid.
21. Kinnard, p. 131.
22. Lieutenant General F.%,g Van Khuyen, RVNAF Logistics. Indochina
Refugee Authored Morocraph Program. Prepared 1or Department of the
Army, Office of Chief of Military History (McLean, Virginiaf General
Research Corporation. lS76), p. 13.
23. Doug Van Khuyen, The RVNAF, p. 285.
24. Lewy, p. 204.
25. Figure 8-2 i:. ad3pted from Pat M. Holt, The War Powers Resolution-
The Role of Cong.ress in US Armed intervention. American Enterprise
Institute (AEI) Studies in Foreign Policj, (Washington, D.C.-, AEI,
1978), pp., 3-8.
26. A number of excellent works have been written which discuss this
issue. See, for example, Holt (above); R. Gordon Hoxie, Command
Decision and the Presidency (New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1977);
Leonard C. Meeker, "The Legality of United States Participat;on in the
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