National Review, September 30th, 1988
IN 1967, Henry Cabot Lodge, who was serving as ambassador to South Vietnam, asked me to stop by (I was in Saigon on a trip for the USIA). He was stretched out on a couch in his office, in his white linen suit, having had "three straight hours of Mary McCarthy," and clearly he suffered from battle fatigue. Would you believe it, he said to me, Miss McCarthy is under the impression that only blacks and ghetto types come to Vietnam to fight"Just yesterday the son of one of my best friends was killed." It turned out that the second lieutenant in question was a graduate of West Point, and no one i...
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