Ebook: Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War

INTRODUCTION; 1. To the Crossroads in Vietnam; 2. "The Day of Reckoning Is Coming, "; 3. "Stable Government or No Stable Government, "; 4. "A Bear by the Tail, "; 5. "Where Are We Going?, "; 6. "If I Were Ho Chi Minh, I Would Never Negotiate, "; 7. "What in the World Is Happening?, "; 8. "Can You Stop It?, "; 9. "Better'n Owl, "; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE; NOTES; INDEX.;In November of 1964, as Lyndon Johnson celebrated his landslide victoryover Barry Goldwater, the government of South Vietnam lay in ashambles. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor described it as a country beset by"chronic factionalism, civilian-military suspicion and distrust, absence of national spirit and motivation, lack of cohesion in thesocial structure, lack of experience in the conduct of government."Virtually no one in the Johnson Administration believed that Saigoncould defeat the co.