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...fuses blow and the fires of decadence burn brighter and brighter they whip apart, spewing people and culture everywhere. Then the barbarians--or the Richard Nixons--ride into town. Perhaps future historians will chart the beginning of the fall of the American Imperium as that frenzied year of Tet and Chicago, 1968. Or maybe they will see it as our coming of age--in the highlands and paddies of Indochina the distinctions of war blurred into My Lai Four and the question became not just who was crazy and who was sane, but who was there...
...vague assignment from Esquire in the latter part of 1967. His working conditions were ideal-no real deadlines, the freedom to travel wherever military transport would take him-and his timing was fortuitous. His year in the country coincided with some of the war's fiercest struggles-Tet and the battle for Hue, the siege at Khe Sanh and the Viet Cong's May 1968 Saigon offensive. Although he regularly cursed his own bravado, Herr made a point of being wherever the action was hottest, convinced that the war's "secret history" must exist there: "Somewhere...
Washington law partner of Clark Clifford, venerable Democratic powerbroker . . . Age 56 . . . Yale ('41), Columbia Law, Dean Acheson's law firm . . . Joined McNamara's Pentagon in 1966, became Assistant Secretary for International Security . . . Had "misgivings about Viet Nam" from the start, considered quitting after Tet '68 but decided to work within to halt bombings, open negotiations . . . Was "very firmly aligned" with George McGovern's defense policies in 1972 ... Calls for reduced arms sales abroad, tighter controls on nuclear proliferation . . . After hearing Warnke's plan for deeply cutting defense spending, Carter told him that he sounded...
...were just thinking about doing that at the time that Tet broke, then I came back and did the series which had the effect we thought it would--it had a tremendous impact. The company didn't know that I was going to do that; I'd been kinda for the Vietnam War up to--not '68--it didn't last that long--up to '65, when the buildup took place with the American people not being told the truth. We were being told there was a 165,000 ceiling when I went to Cam Rahn...
Fallen Down. The charges include now familiar allegations that the CIA has repeatedly fallen down on the job, that the agency should have been able to predict the 1968 Communist Tet offensive in South Viet Nam, the 1973 Middle East war and 1974 coups in Portugal and Cyprus. Further, the report contends that the CIA'S covert operations are "irregularly approved, sloppily implemented and at times have been forced, on a reluctant CIA by the President and his National Security Adviser," who until November was Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...