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Hoopes, Townsend Walter was born on April 28, 1922 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Son of Henry Townsend and Edna Andrea (Mortrued) Hoopes.
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A biography of the founder of the U.S. national security system traces his life through his childhood in upstate New York, to his success on Wall Street, to his life of privilege, to his military career.
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“Far and away the most illuminating account we have of the people and policies that led the United States into the Vietnam catastrophe. . . .A significant contribution to the history of our times.” —Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. How the war in Vietnam came to represent the outer limits of feasible American intervention, how the working of the democratic process finally forced President Johnson to abandon a policy of escalation, and why the particular events of March 1968 signaled the end of an era constitute the subject matter of this prize-winning, firsthand account. As under secretary of the Air Force from October 1967 to February 1969, Townsend Hoopes had an insider’s perspective on events. His book is both compelling memoir and searching historical inquiry. For this new paperback edition, Mr. Hoopes has written a supplemental chapter interpreting the final events of 1973-75 and assessing with masterful clarity the whole period of American involvement in Vietnam, from 1945 to 1975.
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Hoopes, Townsend Walter was born on April 28, 1922 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Son of Henry Townsend and Edna Andrea (Mortrued) Hoopes.
Graduate, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1940; Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Yale University, 1944.
Editorial writer, Buffalo Evening News, 1946;
assistant to Chairman of Commission armed services, House of Representatives, Washington, 1947-1948;
assistant to secretary defense, House of Representatives, Washington, 1948-1953;
student, National War College, 1950-1951;
deputy assistant secretary defense international security affairs, Department Defense, Washington, 1965-1966;
principal deputy assistant secretary defense international security affairs, Department Defense, Washington, 1966-1967;
undersecretary air force, Department Defense, Washington, 1967-1969;
assistant to president, Spencer Chemical Company, 1953-1955;
associate, J.H. Whitney & Company, 1955-1957;
partner, Cresap, McCormick & Paget, 1958-1964;
vice-president, director Washington office, Cresap, McCormick & Paget, 1969-1971;
also corporate director. President, Association American Publishers, Washington and New York City, 1973-1986;
vice chairman, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Therapy Institute, since 1995. Consultant on organization National Security Council, 1954, Department State Department Defense, 1957.
Secretary military panel special studies project Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 1957-1958. Consultant President's Committee on United States Information Agency Abroad, 1960.
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Board of directors Committee for National Security, 1978-1988, American Committee on United States-Soviet Rels., Washington, 1980-1992. With United States Marine Corps, 1943-1946. Member Council Foreign Rels., Yale Club, Century Club (New York City), Chevy Chase Club (Maryland.), Federal City Club (Washington), Fairfield Country Club (Connecticut). M C.
Married Ann Merrifield, October 17, 1964. 1 daughter, Andrea; children by previous marriage: TownsendWalter III, Peter Schmidt. Stepchildren: Marsha, Cecily, Briggs, Thomas.