Vietnam and Beyond: A Diplomat's Cold War Education

An ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy BookRobert Hopkins Miller spent nearly one-third of his forty-year Foreign Service career on America’s unsuccessful Vietnam venture—from 1962 to the end of the war. This memoir of his full career emphasizes his Vietnam years but also covers his postings in Europe and assignments as ambassador to Malaysia, 1977–80, and to Côte d’Ivoire, 1983–86. During the war Miller was an active member of the mission to Saigon and to the Paris peace negotiations. As a ...