National Security Files. 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969. Vietnam Country Files

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National Security Files. 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969. Vietnam Country Files

1954-1969

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/591194

This series is the primary source for Lyndon B. Johnson administration diplomatic, military and intelligence materials related to the Vietnam War and to international relations with the Government of South Vietnam. It consists of White House memorandums; State Department and Defense Department telegrams, memorandums and reports; and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) intelligence reports. Some materials from the John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower administrations are included in these files as well as some materials dealing with the origins of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam conflict. The series includes correspondence, special studies and other diplomatic and military materials that were drafted by or sent to the staff of President Lyndon B. Johnson's special assistants for national security affairs. It also includes telegrams and reports exchanged between U.S. Ambassadors (Henry Cabot Lodge, Maxwell Taylor, Ellsworth Bunker) in Saigon and U.S. offices in Washington, DC, as well as diplomatic exchanges concerning Vietnam with nations that contributed to the defense of South Vietnam such as Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and South Korea. It also includes material concerning nations that neighbor Vietnam such as Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, insofar as they relate to the Vietnam War. Subjects covered in this series include U.S. military operations and economic assistance programs in South Vietnam; the air campaign against North Vietnam; Soviet and Chinese aid to North Vietnam; efforts to defeat the Viet Cong; South Vietnamese elections; Pacification; U.S. prisoners of war; international peace-seeking initiatives and bombing halts; efforts to build U.S. public support for the war; the anti-war movement in the U.S. and abroad; press coverage of the war; congressional attitudes towards the war; the August 1964 attacks in the Tonkin Gulf and the resulting Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; and the 1968 Tet Offensive and the siege of Khe Sanh (Huong Hoa).

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Lyndon Baines Johnson Library

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Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 1902-1985

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U.S. representative to the United Nations. From the description of Correspondence 1957. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 50307057 United States Senator and ambassador. From the description of Henry Cabot Lodge letter to Harriet L. White [manuscript], 1960 August 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 466876849 Henry Cabot Lodge (1902-1985) was a journalist, U.S. Senator, and diplomat, and the grandson of statesman Henry Cabot Lodge,...

Taylor, Maxwell D. (Maxwell Davenport), 1901-1987

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Maxwell Davenport Taylor (August 26, 1901 – April 19, 1987) was a senior United States Army officer and diplomat of the mid-20th century.[1] He served with distinction in World War II, most notably as commander of the 101st Airborne Division, nicknamed "The Screaming Eagles." After the war, he served as the fifth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, having been appointed by President John F. Kennedy. He is the father of biographer and historian John Maxwell Taylor and of military historian ...

Bunker, Ellsworth, 1894-1984

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Ambassador. From the description of Reminiscences of Ellsworth Bunker : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86131282 From the description of Reminiscences of Ellsworth Bunker :koral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309722384 ...