Internet, alt.obituaries, 2004-010-12
Information trouvée : décès 2004 : Townsend Hoopes, an author and onetime Washington insider who wrote of
how President Lyndon Baines Johnson tried to de-escalate the Vietnam War in 1968,
died on Sept. 20 in Baja California, Mexico. He was 82 and lived in Chestertown, Md.
Townsend Walter Hoopes II, known as Tim, was born in Duluth, Minn., He was a Marine
Corps lieutenant serving on Iwo Jima and in occupied Japan, then went to Washington,
first as an assistant to the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. In
1948 he was named an assistant to the secretary of defense, with time for studies
at the National War College, and wrote an influential paper foretelling the president's
need for what eventually became the National Security Council. In 1953, Mr. Hoopes
joined the international consulting firm of Cresap, McCormick & Paget, which has
since merged into Towers Perrin. He returned to it later as a partner in New York
(1958 to 1964), and a vice president and director of the Washington office (1969
to 1971).
LCNA (CD OCLC), 1993-12 : Hoopes, Townsend, 1922-
The cold war : 1945-1991 / ed. by Benjamin Frankel ; forew. by Townsend Hoopes, 1992