“One of the things he was most concerned about was that, as our involvement in Vietnam grew, the gap between the nature of that involvement and LBJ’s depiction of it to the American people widened. “One of the major themes in the book, resulting from the research, was Lyndon Johnson’s deliberate circumvention of the Constitution of the United States –to deny the people, and their representatives in Congress, a say in whether or not the country went to war. 29 with the Defense Writers Group in Washington. LeMay, whom the author termed a “thorn in the Administration’s side.”) McMaster met on Oct.
Johnson and his top advisers, insufficiently challenged by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, forgot about integrity and followed a course of “arrogance, weakness, lying in the pursuit of self-interest, and, above all, the abdication of responsibility to the American people.” (An exception was Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. It is based largely on previously secret tape recordings and transcripts of key meetings during the period 1963-65, and it presents an important new analysis of how the US got into the Vietnam War. His book, which he researched and wrote on sabbatical, is extraordinary–if not unprecedented–in the degree of attention, credibility, and influence it has achieved among military leaders and professionals. McMaster is the author of Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam, published last May by Harper-Collins.
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