Chapter 1
Endnotes
1 Chester Cooper et al., An Overview of
Pacification, Vol. I of The American Experience With Pacification in Vietnam,
Report R-185 (Arlington, Va.: Institute for Defense Analyses, 1972), p. 1.
2 Executive Order 10575, 8 Nov 54: "Administration of Foreign Aid Functions." Copies or originals of all primary sources cited may be found, unless otherwise noted, in the pacification research collection at the United States Army Center of Military History, Washington, D.C.
3 Record of Meeting of Pacification Committee. 7 Apr 64, and William C. Westmoreland, A Soldier Reports (Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1976), p. 69.
4 Ltr, Pres Johnson to Taylor, 2 Jul 64, quoted
in full in MSG, JGS 7217 to CINCPAC [Commander in Chief, Pacific] and COMUSMACV
[Commander, United
States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam], 2 Jul 64.
5 Maxwell D. Taylor, Swords and Plowshares (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1972), p. 318.
6 Ltr, Johnson to Elbridge Durbrow, 26 Nov 76, as quoted in "Reemphasis on Pacification: 1965-1967," Vol. IV.C.8, of United States-Vietnam Relations: 19451967 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1971), pp. 21-22. U.S.-Vietnam Relations: 1945-1967 is the so-called Pentagon Papers, a study prepared at the direction of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Hereafter cited as USVNR with the appropriate volume and page numbers.
7 Interv, Charles B. MacDonald with Westmoreland,
19 Mar 73. The MacDonald interviews were conducted during the preparation
of Gen Westmoreland's memoirs, A Soldier Reports, and were deposited at the
Center of Military History for use in preparing the U.S. Army's official history
of the war in Vietnam.
8 Taylor, Swords and Plowshares, p. 316. Interv, Maj Paul
Miles with Westmoreland, 10 Apr 71; conducted while Gen Westmoreland was U.S.
Army Chief of Staff, the Miles interviews were deposited at the Center of
Military History for use, in preparing the U.S. Army's official history of
the war in Vietnam.
9 Interv, MacDonald with Westmoreland, 4-5 Feb 73. Taylor,
Swords and Plowshares, p. 316, and interview by the author with Taylor,
14 May 75.
10 Hop Tac, both in concept and execution, has been well documented. The treatment of it in the so-called Pentagon Papers (USVNR, IV.C.8, pp. 1-9) is probably the best unclassified source available. Official documentation is extensive and includes not only some of the earliest planning papers but also detailed "progress" reports and evaluations (see pacification research collection, U.S. Army Center of Military History). See also, Westmoreland, A Soldier Reports, pp. 82-86.
11 Memo, Bundy, to Pres, 7 Feb 65, sub: The
Situation in Vietnam.
12 Memo, Anthis for Gen Goodpaster (Dir, Joint
Staff), 24 Feb 65, sub: RVN Pacification. Adm F. J. Blouin, Director, Far
East Region Office, International Security Affairs, Office of the Secretary
of Defense, made a similar proposal a short while later. See Memo, Blouin
to John McNaughton [Asst Sec of Def for Internatl Security Affairs], 2 Mar
65, sub: Vietnam.
13 HQS, MACV, Command History 1965, p. 253.
14 Ltr, Pres to Lodge, Jul 65, as quoted in USVNR, IV.C.8, p. 809.
15 Chester Cooper et al., An Overview of Pacification, p. 286.
