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Defining Documents in American History: The Vietnam War (1956–1975)

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note




Editor's Introduction




Contributors




Kennedy's War




Senator John F. Kennedy on America's Stake in Vietnam




“The Path of Revolution in the South”




President Ngo Dinh Diem: Address to US Congress




Memo from Ambassador Durbrow to Diem




Notes on a National Security Council Meeting




Letter from JFK to Diem




Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield on US Policy in Southeast Asia




On the Prospect of a “Generals' Coup”




Televised Interview with President Kennedy




Ambassador Lodge on the Worsening Situation




Johnson's War




CIA Memo on National Liberation Front Methods




The Gulf of Tonkin Incident




A New Approach to Retaliation




LBJ: “Peace Without Conquest”




Meeting Between the President and His Advisors




“Why We Are In Vietnam”




A Recommendation for Troop Increases




General Westmoreland on Military Operations




“No Attractive Course of Action”




The Tet Offensive: A CIA Assessment




The President and His Advisors Review the Situation




Testimony Regarding the My Lai Massacre




President Johnson on Limiting the War




The Antiwar Movement




Call for A March on Washington




Protest Speech by Paul Potter




Message from Ho Chi Minh




Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Beyond Vietnam”




An Antidraft Call to Action




An Unwinnable War




“We Are Mired in Stalemate”




Weathermen Manifesto




George McGovern Urges an End to the War




Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest, with Response from President Nixon




John Kerry's Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee




Nixon's War




Conversation Between Presidents Nixon and Thiêu




Henry Kissinger to Nixon




Nixon on the “Silent Majority” and “Vietnamization”




Nixon on Operations in Cambodia




Taped Conversation between Nixon and Kissinger




President Nixon to President Thiêu




The Paris Peace Accords




Aftermath




Plea for Emergency Aid for Saigon




Pardon of Draft Evaders




The Vietnam Veterans Memorial




Appendixes



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography