Talk:George Wildman Ball
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I had to remove the link to Daniel Brandt's site, because the article was literally uneditable with it in. Wikipedia's spam filter is being anal.--KrossTalk 07:28, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Voice against escalation?
The claim that George Ball was a major voice against escalation during the Vietnam War is one that is promoted in David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest; Mary McCarthy pours scorn on this idea in her caustic review of this book, "Sons of the Morning" (collected, I think, in her book The 17th Parallel.) She refers to George Ball memos in the so-called Pentagon Papers (which were published after Halberstam) which -- as she claims -- decisively refute Halberstam's portrait of Ball. 137.82.188.68 01:52, 2 September 2007 (UTC)