David M Barrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 1049645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David M Barrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | David M |
| FAMILY NAME | Barrett |
| SIGNATURE | BARRETT D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Villanova University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8132-6819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Bay of Pigs Fiasco and the Kennedy Administration's Off-the-Record Briefings for Journalists
After the failure of the April 1961 Bay of Pigs intervention in Cuba, senior officials from the Kennedy administration, including the president, devoted two days to off-the-record briefings for more than 200 journalists. Although President John F. Kennedy refused to assign blame, other officials were less circumspect, disagreeing about whether the Central Intelligence Agency or another part of the government was responsible for the failure. The m…
Confrontations in Asia
Clarification on Decision
"Clarification on Decision." International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 30(1), p. 213
New Details on a Foia Request
The International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence recently published an article in which I described my attempts (and those of others, including the non-governmental National Securi
The Essence of Non-Decision: CIA's Deferral of Declassifying JFK-Era Documents
The 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy (JFK)'s assassination passed in November 2013, but the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) still refuses to declassify numerous documents related to
‘Rethinking the Vietnam War’ by John Dumbrell
Why Intelligence Failures Are (Still) Inevitable
On March 24, 2004, Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism coordinator under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, apologized to the families of those who died in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks: “your government failed you, those entrusted with protecting you failed you, and I failed you.”1 Clarke's apology resonated with many who believed that, surely, some government officials had been almost criminally negligent in…
Secrecy, Security, and Sex: The NSA, Congress, and the Martin–Mitchell Defections
Only recently have sufficient documents been declassified, released, or otherwise discovered to make possible a fairly detailed empirical description and assessment of legislative oversight of U.S
The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election
ix). By implication, it is not a volume in which scholars will find significant new source materials, revelations, or insights. Nonetheless, The Deadly Bet is a nuanced and gracefully written history of American politics in that painful year of 1968. Some scholars might argue with LaFeber's claim that the late 1960s were “the most domestically dangerous, chaotic American era since the Civil War” (p. 179), but I think his assessment is quite plaus…
An Early “Year of Intelligence” CIA and Congress, 1958
The phrase “Year of Intelligence” gained currency during and after 1975, when, as the late Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) William Colby once recalled, “the CIA came under the closest and ha
Young people and prostitution: An end to the beginning
The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms
Glimpses of a hidden history: Sen. Richard Russell, congress, and oversight of the CIA
Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Papers: A Documentary Collection
Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973
International Relations and Politics
The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships. Part 4: July 1965-January 1968
Journal Article The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships. Part 4: July 1965–January 1968. By William Conrad Gibbons. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xvi, 969 pp. Cloth, $79.50, ISBN 0-691-00636-9. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-691-00635-0.) Get access David M. Barrett David M. Barrett Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers
The Johnson Years, Volume Three: LBJ at Home and Abroad
Journal Article The Johnson Years, Volume Three: LBJ at Home and Abroad. Ed. by Robert A. Divine. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. xii, 293 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0655-6.) Get access David M. Barrett David M. Barrett Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 362–363, https://doi.org/10.2307/20…
The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power
Journal Article The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power. By H. W. Brands. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. x, 294 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-19-307888-8.) Get access David Barrett David Barrett Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Page 1291, https://doi.org/10.2307/29452…
Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers
Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers
Journal Article Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers. By David M. Barrett. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. xii, 279 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0612-2.) Get access Thomas Borstelmann Thomas Borstelmann Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1381–1382, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers
The Senate Judiciary Committee and Supreme Court Nominees: Measuring the Dynamics of Confirmation Criteria
Secrecy and Openness in Lyndon Johnson's White House: Political Style, Pluralism, and the Presidency
Two dominant characteristics of President Lyndon Johnson's political style were (1) openness to diverse views and information and (2) extreme secrecy surrounding the advisory process. The two characteristics were in tension, but inextricably linked and served serious purposes: openness brought Johnson policy proposals and political analyses from diverse, credible sources, while secrecy kept his options open until the moment of presidential decisi…
The Senate Judiciary Committee and Supreme Court Nominees: Measuring the Dynamics of Confirmation Criteria
Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973
The Johnson Years, Volume Three: LBJ at Home and Abroad
Journal Article The Johnson Years, Volume Three: LBJ at Home and Abroad. Ed. by Robert A. Divine. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. xii, 293 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0655-6.) Get access David M. Barrett David M. Barrett Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 362–363, https://doi.org/10.2307/20…
The Mythology Surrounding Lyndon Johnson, His Advisers, and the 1965 Decision to Escalate the Vietnam War
Journal Article The Mythology Surrounding Lyndon Johnson, His Advisers, and the 1965 Decision to Escalate the Vietnam War Get access David M. Barrett David M. Barrett DAVID M. BARRETT, a former broadcast journalist in public television and one-time congressional candidate in Indiana, is now a doctoral candidate in the department of government and international studies at the University of Notre Dame. Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Change strategies and perceived environment data: Two conceptual models and their applications
Recent work in the area of environmental assessment has yielded varied approaches to environmental change. This article reviews two alternative strategies of both assessment and change. The work of Moos and his colleagues is highlighted as a taxonomic approach to the study of psychosocial environments. The research of Schneider is discussed as a dynamic model of how persons reach “perceptual conclusions” about what a setting is like. The differin…
The Mythology Surrounding Lyndon Johnson, His Advisers, and the 1965 Decision to Escalate the Vietnam War
Journal Article The Mythology Surrounding Lyndon Johnson, His Advisers, and the 1965 Decision to Escalate the Vietnam War Get access David M. Barrett David M. Barrett DAVID M. BARRETT, a former broadcast journalist in public television and one-time congressional candidate in Indiana, is now a doctoral candidate in the department of government and international studies at the University of Notre Dame. Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Doing “Tuesday Lunch” at Lyndon Johnson's White House: New Archival Evidence on Vietnam Decisionmaking
Over the past decade, a number of political scientists have employed presidential papers and other archival materials in order to test various hypotheses regarding American politics. This has been particularly true concerning the Vietnam War and the American presidency (Kahin 1986; Burke and Greenstein 1989; Berman 1982, 1989; Kolko 1985; Hatcher 1990), as scholars have explored the interconnections between ideology, political style, presidential…
Secrecy and Openness in Lyndon Johnson's White House: Political Style, Pluralism, and the Presidency
Two dominant characteristics of President Lyndon Johnson's political style were (1) openness to diverse views and information and (2) extreme secrecy surrounding the advisory process. The two characteristics were in tension, but inextricably linked and served serious purposes: openness brought Johnson policy proposals and political analyses from diverse, credible sources, while secrecy kept his options open until the moment of presidential decisi…
Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers
Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers
Journal Article Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers. By David M. Barrett. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. xii, 279 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0612-2.) Get access Thomas Borstelmann Thomas Borstelmann Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1381–1382, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers
The Senate Judiciary Committee and Supreme Court Nominees: Measuring the Dynamics of Confirmation Criteria
Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers
The Johnson Years, Volume Three: LBJ at Home and Abroad
Journal Article The Johnson Years, Volume Three: LBJ at Home and Abroad. Ed. by Robert A. Divine. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. xii, 293 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0655-6.) Get access David M. Barrett David M. Barrett Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 362–363, https://doi.org/10.2307/20…
The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power
Journal Article The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power. By H. W. Brands. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. x, 294 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-19-307888-8.) Get access David Barrett David Barrett Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Page 1291, https://doi.org/10.2307/29452…
The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships. Part 4: July 1965-January 1968
Journal Article The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships. Part 4: July 1965–January 1968. By William Conrad Gibbons. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xvi, 969 pp. Cloth, $79.50, ISBN 0-691-00636-9. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-691-00635-0.) Get access David M. Barrett David M. Barrett Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
International Relations and Politics
Glimpses of a hidden history: Sen. Richard Russell, congress, and oversight of the CIA
Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Papers: A Documentary Collection
Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973
The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms
Young people and prostitution: An end to the beginning
An Early “Year of Intelligence” CIA and Congress, 1958
The phrase “Year of Intelligence” gained currency during and after 1975, when, as the late Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) William Colby once recalled, “the CIA came under the closest and ha
The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election
ix). By implication, it is not a volume in which scholars will find significant new source materials, revelations, or insights. Nonetheless, The Deadly Bet is a nuanced and gracefully written history of American politics in that painful year of 1968. Some scholars might argue with LaFeber's claim that the late 1960s were “the most domestically dangerous, chaotic American era since the Civil War” (p. 179), but I think his assessment is quite plaus…
Secrecy, Security, and Sex: The NSA, Congress, and the Martin–Mitchell Defections
Only recently have sufficient documents been declassified, released, or otherwise discovered to make possible a fairly detailed empirical description and assessment of legislative oversight of U.S
Why Intelligence Failures Are (Still) Inevitable
On March 24, 2004, Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism coordinator under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, apologized to the families of those who died in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks: “your government failed you, those entrusted with protecting you failed you, and I failed you.”1 Clarke's apology resonated with many who believed that, surely, some government officials had been almost criminally negligent in…
‘Rethinking the Vietnam War’ by John Dumbrell
The Essence of Non-Decision: CIA's Deferral of Declassifying JFK-Era Documents
The 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy (JFK)'s assassination passed in November 2013, but the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) still refuses to declassify numerous documents related to
Clarification on Decision
"Clarification on Decision." International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 30(1), p. 213
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