I got through a few more chapters since writing this post. I should add that there is more information about Melvin Laird. He was more adroit at operating within the context of palace intrigue than I originally understood. He was one of the few people who could more than hold his own with Henry. Laird was a skilled bureaucratic infighter.
Thanks, Dick, for a wonderful summary review of a most complex and powerful figure in American foreign policy!
Thanks! He was certainly complex and fascinating in many ways.
I got through a few more chapters since writing this post. I should add that there is more information about Melvin Laird. He was more adroit at operating within the context of palace intrigue than I originally understood. He was one of the few people who could more than hold his own with Henry. Laird was a skilled bureaucratic infighter.