Marigold [electronic resource] : the lost chance for peace in Vietnam / James G. Hershberg.

"This book explores one of the last great mysteries of the war that Henry Kissinger has retrospectively termed "the defining experience of the second half of the twentieth century" and "the black hole of American historical memory"--The clandestine peace initiative, bearing the U.S. code name "Marig...

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Uniform Title:Cold War International History Project series.
Main Author: Hershberg, James G. (James Gordon), 1960-
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Stanford, Calif. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Stanford University Press, c2012.
Series:Cold War International History Project series.
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Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam
Format: Electronic eBook

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 867-873) and index. 
505 0 |a Mission impossible? "Operation Lumbago" and LBJ's thirty-seven-day bombing pause, December 1965-January 1966 -- Đò̂ng Chí Lewandowski's secret mission : the players take their places, February-June 1966 -- "Could it really be peace?" Marigold's " devious channels"-Act One: July 1966 -- Intermezzo : August to October 1966-a "mosaic of indiscretions and rumors" -- "A nerve- eating business" : Marigold blossoms-Act Two: November 1966 -- " Something big has happened" : toward the Warsaw Meeting, December 1-5, 1966 -- Informing the North Vietnamese ambassador in Warsaw : Nguyen Dinh Phuong's Marigold Mystery Tour -- "It is pity" : waiting for Gronouski-December 6, 1966 -- "It looked as if we could move forward" : Marigold in suspense, December 7-13, 1966 -- "The Americans have gone mad" : bombing Hanoi again, December 13/14-18, 1966 -- "The Christmas present" : Marigold's last gasp, and first leaks, December 19-24, 1966 -- "The ultimate reply" : the end of the affair, December 25-31, 1966 -- Secret spats : talking and fighting, January 1967 -- "A sunburst of recriminations" : riders on the storm, February-June 1967 -- The long year wanes : D'Orlandi, Lodge, and Lewandowski leave Vietnam, March-June 1967 -- "You will never get the inside story" : the secret search for The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam, May 1967-March 1968 -- Sequels, revivals, regrets : Marigold's echoes during LBJ's last year, February 1968-January 1969 -- "A lot more dead young soldiers" : last words, and the battle for history. 
520 |a "This book explores one of the last great mysteries of the war that Henry Kissinger has retrospectively termed "the defining experience of the second half of the twentieth century" and "the black hole of American historical memory"--The clandestine peace initiative, bearing the U.S. code name "Marigold," that in late 1966 sought to end the fighting, or at least open direct talks, between Washington and Hanoi."--Publisher's description. 
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