January 16, 2012
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Volume IV C6b of the Pentagon Papers must have been written just before the 1967 New Year. Ironic that I read this volume during the Christmas holiday and into the first week of 2012. American sentiments to look back and … Continue reading
December 30, 2011
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Finally stumbled through one of the larger hidden lies in Volume IV C5 (PDF link) of the Pentagon Papers. During discussions regarding initial deployment of American troops to Vietnam, President Johnson, General Westmoreland along with military and White House policy … Continue reading
December 22, 2011
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The best book (that I’m still reading) from 2011 is “United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense” or as history refers to it – The Pentagon Papers. The study is a 47 volume … Continue reading
December 10, 2011
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I have been having some difficulty reading a few memorandums attached to the Pentagon Papers study in digital format. The National Archives did an absolutely wonderful job of making the entire text of the Pentagon Papers ‘selectable’ in Adobe PDF … Continue reading
December 4, 2011
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Reaching page 1,758 of the Pentagon Papers (Part IV-C.4. Evolution of the War. Marine Combat Units Go to Da Nang, March 1965) provides a growing stream of reports and studies that the war in South Vietnam was “lost” as early … Continue reading
October 27, 2011
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This is taking a bit longer than originally planned. I’m almost at the half way point of the Pentagon Papers’ 7,000+ pages. My somewhat stale blog is always due to life getting in the way …. but I became stalled … Continue reading
July 7, 2011
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Tim Weiner wrote an extraordinary book Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. He traced the origin back to World War II and movements by former Office of Strategic Services Officers to run the new agency in a post war … Continue reading
June 13, 2011
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An NBC report on the US Government’s decision to release a full redacted accounting of The Pentagon Papers:
June 8, 2011
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Finally after 40 years the US Government will publish The Pentagon Papers in full for the very first time. The study commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was offically titled: “United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study … Continue reading
May 7, 2011
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Reading 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown can be considered a good introduction to the country’s long relationship between Wall Street and Congress. A new reference for how our country began its relationship with Wall Street … Continue reading