Vietnam War Discussion Links

Eisenhower / Kennedy / Johnson / Nixon /Communists' View

Eisenhower Administration

Eisenhower Letter of Support to Diem, 1954

UNITED STATES POLICY WITH RESPECT TO VIET-NAM

THE IMPORTANCE TO THE UNITED STATES OF THE SECURITY AND PROGRESS OF VIET-NAM Address by the President (Eisenhower) Gettysburg College Gettysburg Pennsylvania April 4 1959 (Excerpt)

Kennedy Administration

Letter from President Kennedy to President Diem

Rusk-McNamara Report--1961

Kennedy TV Interviews on Vietnam

Secretary Rusk's Address, "The Stake in Viet-Nam," Before the Economic Club of New York, at New York, April 22, 1963,

Johnson Administration

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS on Tonkin Gulf Incident AUGUST 5 1964

LBJ's Explanation of the Escalation of the War in Vietnam

"United States Policy in Vietnam," by Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense, 26 March 1964, Department of State Bulletin, 13 April 1964

Nixon Administration

Nixon's Vietnamization Speech

Nixon's Speech on Cambodia

Vietnamese Communists' View

The Path of Revolution (1956)

The National Liberation Front Program

President Lyndon Johnson and Ho Chi Minh- Letter Exchange, 1967