Volume 13, Number 10 · December 4, 1969
Lessons for Nixon
By I.F. Stone
The Limits of Intervention
by Townsend Hoopes
David McKay, 245 pp., $5.95
The United States may have yet to lose a war, but it is an illusion to believe that it has never suffered defeat. Vietnam is our third in Asia, as Castro's Cuba is our second in Latin America. In his book, The Limits of Intervention, Townsend Hoopes tells us that Johnson, after campaigning as a peace candidate in 1964, ordered combat troops into Vietnam in 1965 because he did not wish to become 'the first American President to lose a war.' Nixon nine months after his election said the same thing to Stewart Alsop of Newsweek, to the joy of Brother Joe.
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