Elusive Victories_ The American Presidency at War-Oxford University Press (2012)

392 notes to pages 148‒152 Larrabee, Commander in Chief , 91. Roosevelt’s decision reversed long-standing American defense poli ...

notes to pages 152‒157 393 Ambrose, “‘Just Dumb Luck,’” 61. For representative photographs, see the illustrations in Christophe ...

394 notes to pages 158‒163 Kimball, Juggler , 132–33. On the diff erences between Churchill and Roosevelt over the future of co ...

notes to pages 163‒169 395 the initial war orders provided a welcome economic stimulus as prices recovered to their 1929 levels. ...

396 notes to pages 169‒174 Larrabee, Commander in Chief , 20–21, 25–26. Larrabee, Commander in Chief , 318. For a detailed acco ...

notes to pages 174‒179 397 Larrabee, Commander in Chief , 135–36; Roberts, Masters and Commanders , Emerson, “Franklin Roosev ...

398 notes to pages 179‒185 Larrabee, Commander in Chief , 545–46, 572. Larrabee, Commander in Chief , 541. Kimball, Juggler , 1 ...

notes to pages 185‒193 399 Villa, “U.S. Army, Unconditional Surrender, and Potsdam Proclamation,” 75–77. Military opinion began ...

400 notes to pages 194‒197 Farrell, Defense and Fall of Singapore 1940–1942 , 311. Interestingly, Hitler evinced an obsession w ...

notes to pages 204‒207 401 Chapter 4 Among many excellent accounts of the French war in Indochina (also often referred to as th ...

402 notes to pages 207‒210 Vietnam. Langguth says the Politburo in Hanoi, though hoping to overturn the Saigon government before ...

notes to pages 210‒215 403 pressed him on what to do if the Chinese intervened other than to admit “we have another ball game.” ...

404 notes to pages 216‒223 Hess, Presidential Decisions for War , 107–8, 110; Dallek, “Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam,” 150. Dallek ...

notes to pages 223‒230 405 Hess, Presidential Decisions for War , 117–18. For example, at a November 10, 1965, meeting, Johnson ...

406 notes to pages 230‒234 the bombing campaign is no diff erent. Th us some revisionists have argued that the United States wou ...

notes to pages 234‒239 407 Langguth, Our Vietnam , 446. It should be noted that Johnson’s key advisors, notably McNamara and Ru ...

408 notes to pages 239‒243 Jacobs and Shapiro, “Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam, and Public Opinion,” 600–602; Turner, Lyndon Johnson’s ...

notes to pages 243‒253 409 Robbins, Th is Time We Win , 76–77. Robbins, Th is Time We Win , 86–88. Berman, Lyndon Johnson’s War ...

410 notes to pages 253‒260 Sorley, Better War , 38–40, 112–13, 115–16. Hoff , Nixon Reconsidered , 163–65. Hoff , Nixon Reconsi ...

notes to pages 261‒271 411 Sorley, Better War , chap. 20. Abrams clearly understood that Saigon could not aff ord to keep so la ...