Preface xi
PART I
Prologue: Vietnam 1961
3(4)
1 The Tonkin Gulf: August 1964
7(14)
2 Cold Warrior, Secret Keeper
21(27)
3 The Road to Escalation
48(17)
4 Planning Provocation
65(23)
5 "Off the Diving Board": July 1965
88(10)
6 Joining the Foreign Legion
98(4)
7 Vietnam: The Lansdale Team
102(7)
8 Travels with Vann
109(17)
9 Losing Hope
126(17)
10 Rach Klen
143(26)
11 Leaving Vietnam
169(12)
PART II
12 Jaundice
181(18)
13 The Power of Truth
199(16)
14 Campaign '68
215(11)
15 To the Hotel Pierre
226(20)
16 The Morality of Continuing the War
246(16)
17 War Resisters
262(12)
18 Extrication
274(12)
19 Murder and the Lying Machine
286(13)
PART III
20 Copying the Papers
299(11)
21 The Rand Letter
310(13)
22 Capitol Hill
323(7)
23 Leaving Rand
330(13)
24 Kissinger
343(13)
25 Congress
356(9)
26 To the New York Times
365(11)
27 May Day 1971
376(6)
28 Approaching June 13
382(5)
29 Going Underground
387(26)
PART IV
30 The War Goes On
413(9)
31 The Road to Watergate
422(22)
32 End of a Trial
444(15)
Acknowledgments 459(4)
Notes 463(10)
Works Cited 473(6)
Index 479