Marigold : the lost chance for peace in Vietnam /
"Marigold 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...
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Washington, D.C. : Stanford, California :
Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Stanford University Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | Cold War International History Project series.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
