Volume 9, Number 4 · September 14, 1967

Crisis Manager

By John McDermott
To Move a Nation
by Roger Hilsman

Doubleday, 602 pp., $6.95

The decision to escalate the Vietnam War was not made in 1965. It was made in 1964. It was certainly made within six months of President Kennedy's death. It may even have been made within six weeks of his death.



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