"There It Is": Narratives of the Vietnam War. Tom Burns

out that Diem thought that political “compromise has no purpose and opposition of any kind must of necessity be subversive.”53 Robert D. Schulzinger notes Diem’s “inability to generate popularity in the countryside and his adamant refusal to delegate responsibility to anyone other than his brothers.”54 Finally, Marilyn B. Young sums up the relationship of the US government and the Diem regime in this way: “what the United States had labored mightily to produce was not a democratic, independent new nation-state but an autocratic ruling family held in place by a foreign power.55 Mutual dissatisfaction led inevitably to Diem’s fall.

1 Short, Anthony, The Origins of the Vietnam War (London: Longman; 1989) p. 263.

2 Bowman, John S. (ed.), The Vietnam War Day by Day (Hong Kong: Brompton Books Corporation, 1989), p. 14.

3 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day, p. 14.

4 Short, Origins of the Vietnam War, p. 193.

5 Short, Origins of the Vietnam War, p. 196.

6 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day, p. 16.

7 See Short, Origins of the Vietnam War, p. 203, for the confrontation with the sects, and p. 206, for the battle with the Binh Xuyen.

8 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day, p.16.

9 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day, p. 17.

10 Boettcher, Thomas, Vietnam—the Valor and the Sorrow (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1985), pp. 149-150.

11 Qtd. In Boettcher, Vietnam—the Valor and the Sorrow, pp. 407-408.

12 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day, p. 17.

13 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day, p. 18.

14 Short, Origins of the Vietnam War, p. 215.

15 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day, pp. 18-19.

16 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day , p. 18.

17 Young, Marilyn B., The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990 (New York: Harper’s, 1991), p. 332.

18 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day, p. 18.

19 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day, pp. 19-20.

20 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day, pp. 20-21.

21 Herring, George C., America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam 1950-1975. Second Edition (New York: Knopf, 1986), p. 68.

22 Qtd. in Herring, America’s Longest War, p. 102. See Short, Origins of the Vietnam War, pp. 246-247, for the equally optimistic Taylor-Rostow report.

23 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day, p. 22.

24 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day, pp. 22-23.

25 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day, p. 23.

26 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day, p. 24.

27 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day, p. 27.

28 Short, Origins of the Vietnam War, pp. 205-206.

29 Schulzinger, Robert D., A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 118-119.

30 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day, p. 27.

31 Schulzinger, A Time for War, p. 122.

32 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day p. 27-28.

33 Bowman, The Vietnam War Day by Day pp. 28-29.

34 Karnow, Stanley, Vietnam—A History (Rev. Ed., New York: Viking Penguin, 1991), p. 694.

35 Hempstone, Smith, A Tract of Time (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1966). Page references to this edition will be inserted within parentheses in the text.

36 Berman, David. M., “Montagnards,” in: Tucker, Spencer C. (ed.), The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War—A Political, Social, and Military History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 276.

37 Berman, “Montagards, p. 276.

38 Fitzgerald, Frances, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1970), pp. 238-239.

39 Berman, “Montagnards,” p. 276.

40 Tucker, Encyclopedia, p. 435. According to Berman (in: Tucker, Encyclopedia, p. 277), the montagnards through a United Front Organization for Oppressed Peoples (FULRO is its French