"Son, all I've ever asked of my Marines is for them to obey my orders as they would the word of God. We are here to help the Vietnamese because inside every gook, there is an American trying to get out. It's a hardball world, son. We've got to try to keep our heads until this peace craze blows over."
On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 04:30 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
> Koffsky, who recently died, also has some interesting sections on
> various
> peace scares, when Stalin was threatening to upset the applecart by
> "declaring peace."
>
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:22:34PM -0400, Seth Ackerman wrote:
>>
>> A historian named Frank Kofsky wrote a book a few years ago called
>> "Harry
>> Truman and the War Scare of 1948" in which he alleges that the brief
>> war
>> scare for a few months of 1948 was manufactured by the administration
>> to
>> bail out the aircraft industry. Very persuasive and deeply researched
>> book.
>>
>> Seth
>>
>
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