The war council : McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam /
Preston, Andrew,1973-
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-307) and index.
The mentor: Stimson's influence on Bundy-- A foreign office in microcosm: creating the National Security Adviser and re-creating the NSC staff -- Learning to fear the bomb: Kennedy's crises and the origins of detente -- The hawk: Rostow and the first attempt at Americanization -- The soft hawk: Forrestal and nonmilitary escalation -- Bundy the adviser: the drift to war -- Bundy the advocate: the rush to war -- Bundy ambivalent: rolling thunder, student unrest, and the decision to commit troops -- Bundy resilient: the bombing pause and the continuing search for a successful policy -- Legacies.
Bundy, McGeorge.
National Security Council (U.S.)
Vietnam War, 1961-1975