TY - BOOK AU - Kalb,Marvin L. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The road to war: presidential commitments honored and betrayed AV - E840.4 .K36 2013eb U1 - 355.00973/0904 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Brookings Institution Press KW - Presidents KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Political leadership KW - Military policy KW - Military relations KW - Korea (South) KW - Vietnam (Republic) KW - Israel KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Truman's war in Korea -- The hatching of an American "commitment" -- Eisenhower: "My God, we must not lose Asia!" -- Kennedy: the coup that failed -- Johnson: "Let us continue" -- Nixon: "There is no way to win this war" -- One way or the other: getting out, finally -- "Honorable exit" or "decent interval" -- The Israel model: unprecedented and unpredictable -- Where are they now?; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10699900 ER -