The Wars for Viet Nam

The Documents

• The Final Declarations of the Geneva Conference
  July 21, 1954
• The American Response to the Geneva Declarations
  July 21, 1954
• Protocol to the SEATO Treaty
  September 8, 1954
• Eisenhower's Letter of Support to Ngo Dinh Diem
  October 23, 1954
• Excerpts from Law 10/59
  May 6, 1959
• Le Duan, "Duong Loi Cach Mang Mien Nam"
  [The Path of Revolution in the South], circa 1956
• Program of the National Liberation Front of South Viet-Nam
• Excerpts from Rusk-McNamara Report to Kennedy
  November 11, 1961
• Phone Conversation Between Ngo Dinh Diem and Henry Cabot Lodge
  November 1,1963
• The Senate Debates the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
  August 6-7, 1964
• Excerpts from McGeorge Bundy's Memo to President Johnson
  February 7,1965
• Le Duan, Thu Vao Nam [Letters to the South]
  (Hanoi: Nha Xuat Ban Su That, 1965), 119-162
• National Security Action Memorandum Number 328
  April 6,1965, signed by McGeorge Bundy and addressed to the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• Excerpts from Speech Given by President Johnson at Johns Hopkins University
  April 7,1965
• Summary of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara's Memo to President Johnson
  July 20, 1965
• Democratic Republic of Vietnam Peace Proposal
  June 26, 1971
• Peace Proposal of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Viet Nam
  July 1, 1971
• President Nixon's Speech on "Vietnamization"
  November 3, 1969
• President Nixon's Speech on Cambodia
  April 30, 1970
• Excerpts from the Paris Accords
  January 27, 1973