LEADER 05439nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910457849803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8047-8388-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804783880 035 $a(CKB)2550000000083193 035 $a(EBL)842219 035 $a(OCoLC)773566770 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000591798 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12188730 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000591798 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10728339 035 $a(PQKB)10409789 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC842219 035 $a(DE-B1597)563941 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804783880 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL842219 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10594409 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769334 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000083193 100 $a20110817d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMarigold$b[electronic resource] $ethe lost chance for peace in Vietnam /$fJames G. Hershberg 210 $aWashington, D.C. $cWoodrow Wilson Center Press ;$aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (936 p.) 225 0 $aCold War International History Project 225 0$aCold War International History Project series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-9381-6 311 $a0-8047-7884-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 867-873) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tThe Cold War International History Project --$tContents --$tMaps and Photographs --$tIntroduction --$tA Note on Names and Terminology --$tAbbreviations Used in the Text --$tPrologue: Mission Impossible? ?Operation Lumbago? and LBJ?s Thirty-Seven-Day Bombing Pause, December 1965?January 1966 --$tChapter 1: ÐÔng Chí Lewandowski?s Secret Mission: The Players Take Their Places, February?June 1966 --$tChapter 2: ?Could It Really Be Peace?? Marigold?s ?Devious Channels??Act One: July 1966 --$tChapter 3: Intermezzo: August to October 1966?A ?Mosaic of Indiscretions and Rumors? --$tChapter 4: ?A Nerve-Eating Business?: Marigold Blossoms? Act Two: November 1966 --$tChapter 5: ?Something Big Has Happened?: Toward the Warsaw Meeting, December 1?5, 1966 --$tChapter 6: Informing the North Vietnamese Ambassador in Warsaw: Nguyen Dinh Phuong?s Marigold Mystery Tour --$tChapter 7: ?It Is Pity?: Waiting for Gronouski?December 6, 1966 --$tChapter 8: ?It Looked as If We Could Move Forward?: Marigold in Suspense, December 7?13, 1966 --$tChapter 9: ?The Americans Have Gone Mad?: Bombing Hanoi Again, December 13/14?18, 1966 --$tChapter 10: ?The Christmas Present?: Marigold?s Last Gasp, and First Leaks, December 19?24, 1966 --$tChapter 11: ?The Ultimate Reply?: The End of the Affair, December 25?31, 1966 --$tChapter 12: Secret Spats: Talking and Fighting, January 1967 --$tChapter 13: ?A Sunburst of Recriminations?: Riders on the Storm, February?June 1967 --$tChapter 14: The Long Year Wanes: D?Orlandi, Lodge, and Lewandowski Leave Vietnam, March?June 1967 --$tChapter 15: ?You Will Never Get the Inside Story?: The Secret Search for The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam, May 1967?March 1968 --$tChapter 16: Sequels, Revivals, Regrets: Marigold?s Echoes during LBJ?s Last Year, February 1968?January 1969 --$tEpilogue: ?A Lot More Dead Young Soldiers??Last Words, and the Battle for History --$tAcknowledgments --$tA Note on Sources --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tAbout the Author --$tIndex 330 $aMarigold presents the first rigorously documented, in-depth story of one of the Vietnam War's last great mysteries: the secret peace initiative, codenamed "Marigold," that sought to end the war in 1966. The initiative failed, the war dragged on for another seven years, and this episode sank into history as an unresolved controversy. Antiwar critics claimed President Johnson had bungled (or, worse, deliberately sabotaged) a breakthrough by bombing Hanoi on the eve of a planned secret U.S.-North Vietnamese encounter in Poland. Yet, LBJ and top aides angrily insisted that Poland never had authority to arrange direct talks and Hanoi was not ready to negotiate. This book uses new evidence from long hidden communist sources to show that, in fact, Poland was authorized by Hanoi to open direct contacts and that Hanoi had committed to entering talks with Washington. It reveals LBJ's personal role in bombing Hanoi as he utterly disregarded the pleas of both the Polish and his own senior advisors. The historical implications of missing this opportunity are immense: Marigold might have ended the war years earlier, saving thousands of lives, and dramatically changed U.S. political history. 410 0$aCold War International History Project 606 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975$xPeace 606 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975$xDiplomatic history 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1963-1969 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aVietnam War, 1961-1975$xPeace. 615 0$aVietnam War, 1961-1975$xDiplomatic history. 676 $a959.704/31 700 $aHershberg$b James G$g(James Gordon),$f1960-$01044173 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457849803321 996 $aMarigold$92469648 997 $aUNINA