Lodge in Vietnam
Subtitle: a patriot abroad
By: Anne E. Blair.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780300062267
Subjects: Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1902-; United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam; Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1963-1969; Vietnam -- Politics and government -- 1945-1975
Description: Henry Cabot Lodge became United States ambassador to South Vietnam in August 1963, a critical period in the evolution of American policy there. During the first of Lodge's two embassies in Saigon, a U.S. government-approved coup overthrew President Diem of South Vietnam and another U.S.-inspired coup brought to power a Vietnamese general trained in America.

This book focuses on Lodge's ambassadorship from 1963 to June 1964, examining the constraints and possibilities inherent in the Vietnam situation at that time and revealing the role Lodge played in shaping President Lyndon Johnson's 1965 decision to commit U.S. troops to the war.

Anne Blair is the first to draw on Lodge's collected papers, including an unpublished memoir, as well as on previously unavailable U.S. Saigon embassy reports and on interviews with former U.S. officials and others who served with Lodge in Vietnam and Washington.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-190) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Glossary of acronyms; title: A presidential mission; title: The first eight days; title: The days of silence and correctness; title: Calm before the storm; title: Two coups : Saigon and New Hampshire; title: The descending curtain; title: Epilogue; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Bibliographic essay