Um the New York Times and LA Times are biased in some way when they repeatedly name him as an Historian UCBerkeley had him head the Indochina Center they are noted as biassed against the left in some way Sorry he was an historian and was respected as such by UCBerkeley the NYT His books all on Vietnam were praised for their authoritativeness In The Washington Post Col Harry G Summers Jr called his book on the North Vietnamese Army PAVN People s Army of Vietnam Presidio 1986 without question the best work available on what is now the world s third largest military force LAT etc His position on the Hue massacre was unchanged in 1996 belying claims that his position was proven false by anyone Etc Historian Cheers