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Hoopes' book is ""first a memoir and then, perhaps, a history"" of the six months of vitriol and vacillation over Vietnam that culminated in LBJ's bombshell announcement of March 31, 1968, that he was refusing military requests for a major new infusion of troops, proclaiming a partial bombing halt, asking North Vietnam for negotiations, and withdrawing from the 1968 Presidential race. Obviously there is no attempt at impartiality in a book which calls the war an ""intractable tragedy"" on the first page, and in the course of the.

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The Limits of Intervention book.

How the war in Vietnam came to represent the outer limits of feasible American intervention, how the working .

As under secretary of the Air Force from October 1967 to February 1969, Townsend Hoopes had an insider's perspective on events.

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46. Henry Kissinger, White House Years (Boston: 1979) pp. 507 and 51. oogle Scholar. Among the many books worth consulting on the Watergate scandal itself are Fred Emery, Watergate: The Corruption of American Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon (New York, 1994); J. Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (New York, 1976); Stanley I. Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (New York, 1990).

Published 1969 by D. McKay Co. in New York.