Oral history interview with Dean Rusk and William P. Bundy, 1984-1989?.

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Oral history interview with Dean Rusk and William P. Bundy, 1984-1989?.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45949189

In this interview, Dean Rusk and Bundy describe U.S. involvement in Vietnam during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. They discuss Johnson's bombing targeting policy and its effect as an incentive for North Vietnam to negotiate. They contrasts the Johnson and Nixon administrations. He also discusses the trial of General William Westmoreland and CBS.

Sound recording: 1 sound cassette (60 min.)Transcript: 29 leaves.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7560398

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