434 index
Jackson, Stonewall , 49 , 55
Jafari, Ibrahim al , 304
Japan , 133 , 135–138 , 381 n 3 , 392 n 56
attacks China , 135–36 , 140–141
and Treaty of Versailles , 123 , 125–26 ,
388 n 170
in World War II , 21–23 , 29 , 35–36 ,
133 , 135–36 , 140–45 , 147–49 ,
154–59 , 162 , 1681–172, 174 ,
177–82 , 184–86 , 189 , 191–92 , 194 ,
197–200 , 229 , 273 , 282 , 299 , 341 ,
352 , 390 n 26 , 394 n 95 , 397 n 162 ,
399 n 192 , 399 n 206
Johnson, Andrew , 64 , 72–73
Johnson, Harold , 402–3 n 24
Johnson, Lyndon , 8–10 , 27 , 207–8 ,
211–13 , 242 , 251 , 271 , 273 , 341 , 351 ,
403 n 31 , 407 n 94
and allies , 219–20 , 229 , 403 n 26 ,
405 n 72
and antiwar movement , 237 ,
239–40 , 345
commits to sustaining South
Vietnam , 203 , 210–11 , 217–18
and Congress , 213 , 216 , 228 , 237–38 ,
350
and diff erences with Joint Chiefs of
Staff , 216–17 , 222–24 , 230–31 ,
233–34 , 246–47
escalates American involvement in
Vietnam War , 214–17
frames war goals , 217–19 , 347
and Great Society , 9 , 212–13 , 217 ,
220 , 228 , 238 , 271 , 349–50
lacks leverage over South
Vietnamese government , 219 ,
247 , 249–51 , 346
limits bombing of North Vietnam ,
228–30
loses freedom of action , 203 , 215 ,
228 , 234–35 , 353
as military commander in chief ,
203 , 220–21 , 223–26 , 228 , 233–35 ,
342–44
and news media , 236–37
and peace talks , 250 , 348
and public opinion , 203 , 210 ,
216–17 , 220 , 236–39 , 242 ,
246 , 345 , 407 n 102 , 407 n 103 ,
409 n 127
recognizes need to limit Vietnam
War , 210–12 , 216 , 219 , 223–24
seeks negotiations with Hanoi ,
247–49 , 251–52 , 346 , 409 n 148
speech at Johns Hopkins University ,
217 , 248 , 251–52
and Tet Off ensive , 203 , 245–47
views Vietnam War through Cold
War framework , 208–11 , 215 ,
218
Johnston, Joseph E. , 59–60 , 377 n 82
Johnston, Albert Sidney , 58–59
Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). See United
States Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Committee on the Conduct of
the War , 62 , 80
Jones, Seth , 373 n 51
Jordan , 322Kabul (city) , 286. See also Afghanistan
Karzai, Hamid , 328 , 332–34 , 338
Khanh, Nguyen , 207
Keane, Jack , 314 , 330–31
Kennedy, David M. , 161 , 165
Kennedy, John F. 205–8 , 217 , 221–23 ,
401 n 12 , 403 n 35 , 404 n 57 , 426 n 5
Kennedy, Robert F. , 208 , 237 , 246
Kentucky , 54 , 58 , 380 n 136
Kerry, John , 310
Keynes, John Maynard , 388 n 164
Khe Sanh , 235 , 244 , 342
Khmer Rouge , 260
Kimball, Warren F. , 391 n 39 , 393 n 83 ,
398 n 185 , 399 n 197
Kimmel, Husband E. , 144
King, Ernest J. , 168–69 , 171 , 176–78 ,
185 , 397 n 162 , 397 n 163 ,
399 n 192