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“Completely failed”:Ibid., 172.

“They would have hung Bucher”:Author interview with William Newsome.

Hyland was appalled:“The Pueblo Incident,” Naval History , Fall 1988, Vol. 2, No. 4, 55.

“Grumbling and dragging his heels”:Oral History of Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr., U.S. Navy (Retired), Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C., 2009, 631.

“A very poor fourth”:NHHC, “Memorandum for Admiral Thomas H. Moorer,” Records of the Immediate Office of the CNO, Pueblo Incident Files, Correspondence, box 123.

“Must in fairness be borne”:New York Times , May 7, 1969.

“Dashed to pieces”:Lloyd M. Bucher and Mark Rascovich, Bucher: My Story (Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City, New York, 1970), 395.

“With respect to stopping the ship”:RP, Vol. 8, 1814.

“My most experienced officer … had robbed me”:Lloyd M. Bucher and Mark Rascovich, Bucher: My Story (Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City, New York, 1970), 192.

The lie-detector test:HI, Papers of Lloyd M. Bucher, box 17.

“I regret having done it”:Author interview with Lloyd M. Bucher.

“I am lost all the time”:HI, Bucher Papers, op. cit.

“A tremendous amount of stupidity”:Washington Post , June 10, 1970.

“In any capacity”:Bucher interview, op. cit.

“It was like I had the plague”:Ibid.

“What ships did I surrender today”:Ibid.

“We could not have it both ways”:“Commander Bucher Replies,” Naval History , Winter 1989, 49.

“One hell of a sight better”:Ibid., 50.

“Just easing the pain”:New York Times , May 29, 1988.

“Rifle butts and boot kickings”:Los Angeles Times , Jan. 17, 1988, 34.

“One hell of a lot of conflict”:Bucher letter to Rep. Montgomery, copy in author’s possession.

“The thing that really gnawed at me”:Author interview with Nicholas J. Mavroules.

“They have earned it”:Statement of Vice Admiral Jeremy M. Boorda before the Subcommittee on Investigations, Armed Services Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, June 23, 1989, copy in author’s possession.

“I apologize for all the citizens of this nation”:United Press International, May 5, 1990.

Disguised it as a freighter:The New York Times , July 19, 2005.

“My ankles were raw”:Author interview with William T. Massie.

“We’ve not been successful”:Author interview with Daniel T. Gilbert.

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