This
paper explains that more than 25 years after the last helicopter lifted from the United States embassy in Saigon, the
Vietnam
War continues to cast a shadow on American history and continues to be the subject of contentious debate.The
paper says that, for Hunt, one of the biggest failings of U.S. policy in Southeast Asia was the government's inability or unwillingness to view the war from the perspective of the North Vietnamese. The author believes that the major shortcoming of "Lyndon Johnson's War" is that it failed to present the relationship between the Cold War presidencies.