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.
Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
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