32. “RATFUCKING”: ibid., 127–8.
33. MAO, “DO AS I DID”: q. Szulc, 610.
34. NIXON, “MY ABSOLUTE ASSURANCE”: Kissinger, 1412.
35. AIR POWER FROM BASES IN THAILAND: Gelb, 349.
36. KISSINGER BACKED AWAY FROM AGREED TERMS: Herring, 246.
37. “WE HAD WALKED THE LAST MILE”: Paul Warnke, Asst. Sec. of Defense 1967–69, succeeding McNaughton, American Enterprise Debate, 125.
38. DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS: Congress and Nation, III.
39. ULTIMATUM TO THIEU: Kissinger, 1459.
40. “A HOUSE WITHOUT ANY FOUNDATION”: q. Dudman, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Spec. Supp.,D 10.
41. KISSINGER, “THE BREAKDOWN”: Kissinger, 520.
42. FORD, “CREDIBILITY … ESSENTIAL”: message to Congress, Jan. 75. KISSINGER, “FUNDAMENTAL THREAT”: press conference of 26 Mar 75.
43. RIDGWAY, “IT SHOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN”: in Foreign Affairs.
44. “NO EXPERTS AVAILABLE”: McNamara to author.
45. CONGRESSMAN FROM MICHIGAN: Riegle, entry in diary for 20 Apr 71.
Epilogue
“A LANTERN ON THE STERN”
REFERENCE NOTES
1. “SERVANT OF DIVINE REASON”: Morton Smith in Columbia History of the World, ed. John Garraty and Peter Gay, New York, 1972, 210.
2. PLATO, “GOLDEN CORD,” PUPPETS, DISEASE OF THE SOUL: Laws, I, 644–5, III, 689B.
3. TACITUS, “MOST FLAGRANT”: Annals, Bk XV, chap. 53.
4. JEFFERSON, “WHENEVER A MAN”: to Tench Coxe, 1799, q. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 3rd ed., 1980, 272, no. 11. ADAM SMITH, “AND THUS PLACE”: Theory of Moral Sentiments I, iii, 2, q. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 509, no. 8.
5. SENATOR NORRIS: Wayne S. Cole, Senator Gerald P. Nye and American Foreign Relations, Minneapolis, 1962, 67. EISENHOWER, “EVERYONE IS TOO CAUTIOUS”: Diaries, for 11 June 51.
6. PLATO, “THE WORST OF DISEASES”: Laws, III, 691D.
7. “INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL”: Kissinger, 54.
8. COLERIDGE, “IF MEN COULD LEARN”: Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 157, no. 20.
9. “HE HAD NO CHOICE”: Schlesinger, 538.
10. “MAGNANIMITY IN POLITICS”: Speech on Conciliation, 22 Mar 1775, Hansard, XVIII.
11. “CRIMESTOP”: I owe the citation of this passage to Jeffrey Race, “The Unlearned Lessons of Vietnam,” Yale Review, Winter 1977, 166.
12. STORY OF DARIUS: Herodotus, Bk III, chaps. 82–6.
13. MONTAIGNE, “RESOLUTION AND VALOR”: Complete Essays, trans. Donald M. Frame, Stanford, 1965, II, 36.
14. LILLIPUTIANS “HAVE MORE REGARD”: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part One, chap. 6.
About the Author
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August, a huge best-seller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. There followed five more books: The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, a collection of essays, and, most recently, The March of Folly. The First Salute was Mrs. Tuchman’s last book before her death in February 1989.
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