Documents
DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF VlET-NAM, (September 2, 1945)
Agreement on the
Independence of Vietnam, (MARCH, 1946)
UNITED STATES RECOGNITION OF
VIET-NAM, LAOS, AND CAMBODIA: Statement by the Department of State, February 7, 1950
EXTENSION OF MILITARY AND
ECONOMIC AID: Statement by the Secretary of State, May 8, 1950
ECONOMIC AID PROGRAM: Note From
the American Chargé d'Affaires at Saigon to the Chiefs of State of Viet-Nam, Laos, and
Cambodia, May 24, 1950
United States Minutes of the
First Meeting Between President Truman and French Prime Minister Pleven, Cabinet Room of
the White House, January 28, 1951, 2:30-5 p.m.
Memorandum of Conversation, by
the Assistant Chief of the Policy Reports Staff (Barnes), January 29, 1951.
United States Minutes of the
Second Meeting Between President Truman and French Prime Minister Pleven, Cabinet Room of
the White House, January 30, 1951, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
American Response to The
Geneva Declarations
AGREEMENT ON THE CESSATION OF
HOSTILITIES IN VIET-NAM, JULY 20, 1954 (The Geneva Accords)
MISSION OF THE SPECIAL UNITED
STATES REPRESENTATIVE IN VIET-NAM: Statement Issued by the White House,
November 3, 1954
Letters
from Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy to Diem, 1954 and 1961
South East Asia Treaty
Organization(SEATO),
President Dwight D.
Eisenhower advises Diem - 1954
US
Entry into South Vietnam 1954
Le Duan, "Duong Loi Cach Mang Mien
Nam," [The Path of Revolution in the South], circa 1956
UNITED STATES POLICY WITH
RESPECT TO VIETNAM: Address by the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs,
Walter S. Robertson, Washington, June 1, 1956. Delivered to the American Friends of
Vietnam at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC
THE IMPORTANCE TO THE UNITED
STATES OF THE SECURITY AND PROGRESS OF VIET-NAM: Address by President Eisenhower,
Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1959 (Excerpt)
President Diem SVN passes oppressive
laws on his countrymen. - 1959
Communist National
Liberation Front (NLF)
US Secretary of Defence
- McNamara's report to President Kennedy - 1961
U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE 95/03/06 Foreign Relations, 1961-63, Vol XXIII, Southeast Asia, Office
of the Historian
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO. 111, November 22, 1961
US President Kennedy's Letter to President Ngo Dinh Diem - 1961
Get Me Ten Years': Australia's
Ted Serong in Vietnam, 1962-1975."
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO. 162, June 19, 1962
Australia's
Military Involvement in Vietnam The Political Dimension
President Kennedy's Television
Interviews on Vietnam, September 2 and 9, 1963
TIM WEINER, "Kennedy Had
Plan for Early Vietnam Exit," New York Times, December 23, 1997
Summary
Record of the 519th Meeting of the National Security Council White House, Washington,
October 2, 1963
U.S. POLICY ON VIET-NAM: WHITE
HOUSE STATEMENT, OCTOBER 2, 1963
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO. 263, October 11, 1963
Transcript of the phone
call between Diem and Henry Cabot Lodge - 1963.
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO.273a, November 21, 1963
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO. 273, November 26, 1963
McNamara asks
Giap: What happened in Tonkin Gulf?
he US Senate debates the
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
The Tonkin Gulf Incident - President Johnson's Message to Congress
Gulf of Tonkin - Joint Resolution
Letter
From President Johnson to Prime Minister Menzies - 1964
Collection of Papers,
Letters, and Transcripts from the Johnson Administration
Excerpts from McGeorge Bundy's Memo to
President Johnson, February 7,1965
Aggression From the North - US State Dept White Paper on Vietnam - 1965
National Security
Action memorandum signed by Bundy to the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense and the
Director Central Intelligence Agency
Dean Rusk, "American Foreign
Policy and International Law:South Vietnam's Right of Self Defense, April 23, 1965
The Self-Interested Truth
U.S.
Department of State FRUS, Vol. II, 1964-68, Vietnam, January-June 1965 Office of the
Historian
Robert McNamara's Memo
to President Johnson
Australia's Continuing Commitment - 1965
Letters to the Southern
Communists from Hanoi - 1965
U.S.
Department of State FRUS, Vol. III, 1964-68, Vietnam, June-December 1965 Office of the
Historian
Ho Chi
Minh's Letter to US President Johnson - 1967
VIETNAM:
This Nation Is Caught On A Treadmill", Summarized from an Address Before Congress, By
U.S. Representative Morris Udall Democrat, Second District of Arizona, Reveille, July,
1967, pp. 12.
The United
States and Vietnam -What Lies Ahead?, by Morris K. Udall Reprinted from Congressman's
Report, Morris K. Udall, 2d District of Arizona, October 23, 1967.
Viet
Cong Aims and Concept - 1968
Viet
Cong - Control and Polarization of the Populace
President Nixon's
Speech on "Vietnamisation" - 1969
DELLUMS COMMITTEE HEARINGS ON WAR
CRIMES IN VIETNAM April 25, 1971
Peace Proposal of the
Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam
Letter from President Nixon to President Nguyen Van Thieu of Vietnam 1972
Dr Henry Kissinger's Comments at News Conference
Excerpts from the Paris Accords,
January 27, 1973.
Act of the International Conference on Vietnam, signed in Paris
Complaints of Violations of Cease-Fire Given to Participants in the
International Conference on Vietnam