CONTENTS
Introduction
Fatal Politics
Vietnamization
“A Nightmare of Recrimination”
“A Hell of a Shift”
How to Kill a Withdrawal Deadline
“I’m Being Perfectly Cynical”
“We Want a Decent Interval”
Meeting Zhou
“Old Friends”
“He Deserves Our Confidence”
JFK v. Nixon
The Kennedy Critique
The Liberal Mistake
“Super Secret Agent”
Sixty-Six Percent for Six Months
“One Arm Tied Behind”
“Why Does the Air Force Constantly Undercut Us?”
The Appearance of Success
“Any Means Necessary”
“A Russian Game, a Chinese Game and an Election Game”
“It Could Be a Bit Longer”
The Democrats
“No One Will Give a Damn”
“Idealism with Integrity”
“Our Terms Will Eventually Destroy Him”
Blowup 1968
“We’re behind the Trees!”
“Saving Face or Saving Lives”
“Brutalize Him”
Kissinger v. Thieu
“No Possibility Whatever”
“The Man Who Should Cry Is I”
“The Fellow Is Off His Head”
No Coalition Government
“Peace Is at Hand”
“A Little Bit Diabolically”
The Chennault Affair
“The Clearest Choice”
Election Day 1972
Promises and Threats
Christmas Bombing
“Let Us Be Proud”
The Prisoners Dilemma
The Final Cutoff
Stabbed in the Back
“We Can Blame Them for the Whole Thing”
Nixon’s Dolchstoßlegende
Unearthing Nixon’s Strategy
The University of Virginia’s Miller Center
Decision Points
The Nixon Tapes
Interpretive Inertia
Last Days in Vietnam
A Better War
The Aid-Cutoff Myth
How Wars Don’t End
Questions Unasked
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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