Acknowledgements and Bibliography

Many thanks to all who have helped.  Here is an initial list of people who have assisted with advice, information and support:

Chester Cooper
Teresa R. Cunningham

Dirksen Congressional Center staff
Daniel Ellsberg
Michael Ellsberg

Roger Fisher

Bradley Graham

David Halberstam

Morton Halperin
Leigh Henson
Michael Hillinger, Ph.D.

Townsend Hoopes

LBJ Library staff

Bob Levey

Peggy McAlister Klein
Robert S. McNamara

Alex McNaughton

Christopher Mosher

Petey O’Donnell

Ellen L. Paullin
The Pekin Daily Times

Stephen H. Sachs

Pam King Sams

Asheley Smith

Richard B. Stolley

James Unland, Sr.

Bibliography/Sources

Academic Papers

• Carlson Donnelly,  Dorothy Jeanne,  American  Policy in Vietnam 1949-1965: A Perceptual Analysis of the Domino Theory and Enemy Based Upon the Pentagon Papers, University of Pittsburgh Ph.D.
• Janes, Thomas W.,  Rational Man – Irrational Policy (A Political Biography of John McNaughton’s Involvement in the Vietnam War), Essay presented March 31, 1977 in partial fulfillment of requirement for Bachelor of Arts at Harvard College.
• Travis-Cline, Suzan Ruth, Maintaining Power and Voicing Dissent: John Theodore McNaughton and the Vietnam War, 1964-1967, Thesis in partial fulfillment of requirement for Master of Arts at Bowling Green University December 1993

Interviews and Correspondence

Cooper, Chester, September 14, 2003 telephone interview.
Fisher, Roger,  December 16, 2005 telephone interview. 
Halberstam, David,  telephone conversation, 2004.
Halperin, Morton interview, Washington DC, June 27, 2003.
Hoopes, Townsend, July 23, 2003 telephone conversation and emails.
Robert S. McNamara, telephone interview – July 11, 2003
McNaughton, Alex, Sept. 12, 2003 interview, 2003 meeting and emails
Paullin, Ellen, interview and emails, May 2003.
Stolley, Richard, July 9 2003 email to Tom Paullin.
Unland, James, telephone interview, 2003.

Oral History Statements

·    John T. McNaughton personal statement dated November 14, 1964 (Larry McQuade interviewer) for JFK Library.

·    John T. McNaughton personal statement dated November 21, 1964 (George Bunn interviewer) for JFK Library

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Publications  and Photos

·        Bird, Kai, The Color of Truth, McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms,  Simon and Schuster, New York, 1998.

·        Chomsky, Noam,  For Reason of State , New York, The New Press, 1970.

·        Cooper, Chester  L., The Lost Crusade-America in Vietnam, Fawcett, 1970. 

·        Ellsberg, Daniel, Papers on the War, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1972.

·        Ellsberg, Daniel,  Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, Viking, New York, 2002.

·        FBI files on John T. McNaughton, Declassified under Freedom of Information Act request from Thomas S. Paullin, 2004.

·        Fisher, Roger and Ury, William, Getting to Yes, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1981

·        Halberstam, David, The Best and the Brightest, New York, Random House, 1969.

·        Hoopes, Townsend, The Limits of Intervention, Norton & Company, New York, 1969

·        JFK Library Presidential Recordings Tapes #3 and #5

·        Kaiser, David,  American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson and the Origins of the Vietnam War, Cambridge, MA, Belknap, 2000.

·        Languth, A. J.  Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975, Touchtone, New York, 2000.

·        Warnke, Paul files at LBJ Library, Austin, TX.

·        McNamara,  Robert S., Argument without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy, PublicAffairs, New York, 1999. 

·        McNamara, Robert S., In Retrospect – The Tragedy and Lesson of Vietnam, New York, Vintage-Random House, 1995

·        McMaster, H. R., Dereliction of Duty, Harper Perennial, New York 1997.

·        McNaughton, John T., Diary Volume 3, 9/25/1951-9/7/52.

·        McNaughton, John T., unclassified personal diary, Washington, DC, January 1, 1966-April 22, 1967.

·        McNaughton, John T.,  personal calendar notes, 1960-1967.

·        McNaughton collection of photographs, Official U.S. Navy Photographs and others with original sources not identified, 1960-1967.

·        The Pentagon Papers

·        Rudenstine, David, The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers Case, University of California, Berkeley1996., CA,

·        Sheehan, Neil,  A Bright  Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, Vintage (Random House), New York, 1988.  

·        Summers, Harry G. Jr., Historical Atlas of the Vietnam War, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1995.

·        Summers, Harry G. Jr., The Vietnam War Almanac, Presidio, Novato, CA, 1995.

·        Timberg, Robert, The Nightingale’s Song, New York, Touchtone (Simon & Schuster, 1995.

·        Westmoreland, William C. A Soldier Reports, Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1976.  

·        Westmoreland, Report of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, July 1968-June 1972, Dept. of the Army, Washington, DC, 1972.

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