Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama
by
Marvin Kalb, Deborah Kalb
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
The United States had never lost a war-that is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation after losing to what Lyndon Johnson called a "raggedy-ass little fourth-rate country." The legacy of this first defeat has haunted every president since, especially on the decision...