I had a copy of this book some years ago, and lost it. I ordered this copy specifically to recapture John Ehrlichman’s exposure and documentation of Henry Kissinger as a fumbling dolt in one chapter of this book.
It would be merely an amusing account of Kissinger’s self-aggrandizing expressions and manipulations as Nixon’s ‘national security adviser’, except this chapter documents and reinforces information from other sources available at the time (mid 1970s) of the manner in which Kissinger single-handedly did as much as anyone else to doom any likelihood that South Vietnam would survive the “peace” that he ‘helped arrange’ with North Vietnam. (and was given a prize for)
The North Vietnamese used Kissinger’s self-congratulatory public statements in the course of the Paris Peace Negotiations to pressure Kissinger into accepting changes in presence of Communists in the future South Vietnamese government. Combined with the success in Congress of Radical Democrats like George McGovern and Bella Abzug in cutting ongoing military assistance to South Vietnam and Cambodia to almost zero – in ammunition supplies, and in spare parts to vital military equipment, he helped to doom freedom in Southeast Asia. Together, they assured that all those South Vietnamese who had sacrificed to protect their freedom – including when the ARVN stopped cold the next North Vietnamese offensive at An Loc – would be in vain. And it shares direct responsibility for the millions of Cambodians who were massacred by the minimally–equipped Khmer Rouge when they managed to overcome Cambodian resistance.
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