Keepers of the Keys: A History of the National Security Council from Truman to Bush

Contents
Acronyms
Prologue: “Is That U.S. Policy?”
Part I. Brokers
	Creation of the National Security Council
	Fist on the Table
	“You Could Depend on Him”
	“A Plan for National Psychological Warfare”
Part II. Ike’s Hidden Hand
	“Tantamount to an Executive Agency”
	Managing Policy Hill
	“In a Comfortable Position”
	“The President Wanted Me”
	Senator Jackson’s Committee
Part III. Keepers in Camelot
	Servants of the President
	“The Best and the Brightest”
Part IV. Lyndon Johnson’s Vantage Point
	Opening Chords
	One Trip Too Far
	Lyndon’s Apparat
	Rites of Passage
	The Man of Ideas
	Days of War, Decades Without Resolution
	The Summit That Almost Was
Part V. Vietnam: Arrogance to Adversity
	“We Seek an Independent Non-Communist South Vietnam\"
	“Pleikus Are Like Streetcars”
	Washington at War
	Bomb and Talk, Bomb and Fight, Bomb or Talk
	Twilight of a Presidency
Part VI. King Richard and Prince Henry
	Prince Henry the Navigator
	The Crucible
	To the Top of Policy Hill
	The Illusion of Peace
	A Gathering Storm
	A Ford Not a Nixon
Part VII. Between Power and Principle
	“I Have Got Excellent Advisers!”
	Détente to Confrontation
	Paying the Piper
	Triumph and Tragedy
Part VIII. The Year The Locusts Ate
	No Vicar for Foreign Policy
	Into the Land of the Blind
	A Splendid Little War
	“Something Wrong with the Way This Country Makes Foreign Policy”
	Best Laid Plans
	All the King’s Horses
	Another New Beginning
A Note on Sources
Notes
Index