and a pied à terre during several short visits to Paris. Ken Post made a num-
ber of valuable comments and suggestions on the manuscript. I am particu-
larly indebted to the late William Gaussmann for his suggestions and his en-
couragement in carrying out this project. His advice and his friendship are
sorely missed.

I would like to thank Trinh Thi Ngoc Diep for her help in translating dif-
ficult passages from handwritten Vietnamese and Deborah Shade for typing
assistance. The National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for
the Arts and Humanistic Studies, and the College Fund for Research of the
College of Liberal Arts at The Pennsylvania State University all provided fi-
nancial assistance in support of this study, for which I would like here to ex-
press my appreciation. I am grateful to Kathleen Siljegovic of the Infor-
mation and Privacy Staff of the Department of State for locating materials
in Central Foreign Policy Records and arranging to have them made avail-
able to me. As always, and for so many reasons, my deepest gratitude goes
to my wife, Yvonne. With this book now completed she will, at least for a
while, have a full-time husband again.

W.J.D.

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