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Vietnam, January 1973–July 1975 (Documents 1–301)

Neither War nor Peace, January 27–June 15, 1973 (Documents 1–85)

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963

347. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (Hilsman) to the Secretary of State1

Washington, December 5, 1963.

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d347

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/pg_667

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/pg_668

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/pg_669

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/pg_670

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/pg_671

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/pg_672

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/pg_674

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/pg_677

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d347#fnref:1.7.4.6.24.72.8.5

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d331

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d347#fnref:1.7.4.6.24.72.14.4

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d334

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d347#fnref:1.7.4.6.24.72.20.42.9

Thân thế (các) nhân vật

Ngo Dinh Diem,

President of the Council of Ministers of the State of Vietnam to October 1955; thereafter President and Chief of State of the Republic of Vietnam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/diem-coup

Ton That Dinh,

Major General, ARVN, Military Governor of Saigon, August 21-November 1, 1963; thereafter Commander of III Corps, Second Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council, and Minister of Public Security of the Provisional Government

Tran Van Don,

Major General, ARVN, Commander of III Corps until July 1963; thereafter Commander of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam; Acting Chief of the Joint General Staff after August 1963; First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council after November 1, 1963; Minister of National Defense after November 4, 1963

Felt, Admiral Harry D.,

USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/biographies-list/bios-f/felt-harry-d.html

https://www.geni.com/people/Admiral-Harry-D-Felt/6000000015813834938

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_D._Felt

Paul Donal Harkins

USA, Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam MACV MAAG Military Assistance Advisory Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Assistance_Advisory_Group#MAAG_Indochina;_MAAG_Vietnam

https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/collection/data/829245148

https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/?q=topic_sort:%22Vietnam+War%2C+1961-1975%22

https://www.historynet.com/the-battle-at-ap-bac-changed-americas-view-of-the-vietnam-war/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_D._Harkins

Hilsman, Roger, Jr.,

Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research until April 25, 1963; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs

https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hilsman-roger

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Roger_Hilsman

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/hilsman-roger-jr

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/principalofficers/assistant-secretary-intelligence-research

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/principalofficers/assistant-secretary-for-east-asian-pacific-affairs

https://www.geni.com/people/Roger-Hilsman-Jr/6000000025930163540

https://history.state.gov/search?q=Hilsman%2C+Roger%2C+Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Hilsman

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/roger-hilsman-foreign-policy-adviser-to-jfk-dies-at-94/2014/03/08/e6d1e66e-a63e-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/11/us/politics/roger-hilsman-adviser-to-kennedy-on-vietnam-dies-at-94.html

Johnson, Lyndon B.,

Vice President until November 22, 1963; thereafter President

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Lyndon_B._Johnson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lyndon-b-johnson-jewish/

https://www.biography.com/political-figures/lyndon-b-johnson

https://masonrytoday.com/index.php?new_month=1&new_day=22&new_year=2019

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/t/tonkin-gulf-crisis/tonkin-gulf-incidents-of-2-4-aug-1964/uss-maddox-report-of-tonkin-gulf-action-of-4-aug-1964.html

https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/gulf-of-tonkin-incident/

https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1busNe.img?w=800&h=415&q=60&m=2&f=jpg

https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/maddox.jpg

https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/north-vietnam/

https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/lyndon-johnson/

https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/johnsontonkinaddress-e1673228089140.jpg

https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/gulf-of-tonkin-resolution-1964/

https://socratic.org/questions/what-happened-to-the-uss-maddox-in-the-gulf-of-tonkin#:~:text=Supposedly%2C%20the%20USS%20Maddox%20was%20attacked%2C%20although%20realistically%2C,over%20to%20Vietnam%20to%20start%20the%20Vietnam%20war.

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v03/d33

https://history.state.gov/search?q=johnson+administration+in+vietnam&within=entire-site&sort-by=relevance

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.,

Ambassador to South Vietnam from August 26, 1963

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cabot_Lodge_Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_the_United_States_to_South_Vietnam

https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2021/05/20/henry-cabot-lodge-biography-review-brahmin-240632

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2020/09/25/the-no-so-last-brahmin-the-legacy-of-henry-cabot-lodge-jr-today/

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/henry-cabot-lodge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabot_family

Manning, Robert 1.,

Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_State_for_Public_Affairs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Manning_(journalist)

McNamara, Robert S.,

Secretary of Defense

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/robert-strange-mcnamara

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_World_Bank_Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McNamara

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-S-McNamara

https://history.defense.gov/Multimedia/Biographies/Article-View/Article/571271/robert-s-mcnamara/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DoD_Organization_December_2013.jpg

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-S-McNamara

https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/revamped

https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/RSMPP

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pentagon-Papers

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-robert-mcnamara-came-regret-war-he-escalated-180961231/

https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/olujcd56l_oJgUnOdQVwrEycVpw=/1000x750/filters:no_upscale()/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/c9/b9/c9b92877-5795-4e48-be8b-c794973953c1/mcnamara.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/us/07mcnamara.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/nov-29-1967-robert-mcnamara-resigns-12266315

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2006/08/hitchens200608

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs225/en/

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/12/opinion/mr-mcnamara-s-war.html

http://www.errolmorris.com/film/fow_transcript.html

https://www.britannica.com/event/Gulf-of-Tonkin-incident

Duong Van (“Big”) Minh,

Major General, (after November 4, 1963, Lieutenant General), ARVN, Military Adviser to President Diem until November 1, 1963; thereafter Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Revolutionary Council; President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Vietnam after November 4, 1963

Ngo Dinh Nhu,

brother of President Diem; Presidential Counselor and Head of the Interministerial Committee for Strategic Hamlets until November 1, 1963

Sihanouk, Prince Norodom,

Cambodian Chief of State

Souvanna Phouma,

Laotian Prime Minister

Taylor, General Maxwell D.,

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_D._Taylor

https://www.historynet.com/gen-maxwell-taylors-cable/

https://armyhistory.org/general-maxwell-davenport-taylor/

https://www.jcs.mil/About/The-Joint-Staff/Chairman/General-Maxwell-Davenport-Taylor

List of Persons

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/persons

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v10/persons

https://www.history-matters.com/archive/vietnam/frus_61-63_4/pdf/FRUS_61-63_v4_Persons.pdf

List of presidents of the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States

Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Lyndon_B._Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson - Administration

https://millercenter.org/president/lbjohnson/lyndon-b-johnson-administration

https://history.state.gov/search?q=johnson+administration+in+vietnam&within=entire-site&sort-by=relevance

Eisenhower Administration

https://millercenter.org/president/eisenhower/dwight-d-eisenhower-administration

Lesson in Vietnam from Kissinger to Nixon:… “when we made it “our war” we would not let the South Vietnamese fight it; when it again became “their war”, we would not help them fight it.”

Lesson of Vietnam May 12 1975 by Henry A. Kissinger

https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/exhibits/vietnam/032400091-002.pdf

https://thebattleofkontum.com/extras/kissinger.html

The Geneva Conference

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v16/d668

The Geneva Conference on Indochina May 8–July 21, 1954 (Documents 246–1056)

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v16/comp2

The Geneva Conference on Indochina May 8–July 21, 1954

[Page [396]] [Page 397]

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v16/comp2

Geneva Agreements 20-21 July 1954

https://peacemaker.un.org/sites/peacemaker.un.org/files/KH-LA-VN_540720_GenevaAgreements.pdf

List of Participants in the Geneva Conference on Indochina

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v16/ch5subch4

March 10 1956 Election in South Vietnam

Election processes in South Vietnam

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79T00826A000400010040-7.pdf

Vietnam’s Un-held 1956 Reunification Elections

https://ecommons.cornell.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/020691c4-6762-44f0-903b-390c67a04188/content

PRETENSE TO DEMOCRACY: THE U.S. ROLE IN THE SUBVERSION OF THE VIETNAMESE ELECTION OF 1956

https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2761&context=theses

Van Ban Hiep Dinh Paris 27011973

http://suthat-toiac.blogspot.com/2008/07/hip-nh-paris-2711973-vn-bn.html

Agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Viet-Nam.

Signed at Paris on 27 January 1973

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20935/volume-935-I-13295-English.pdf

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20935/v935.pdf

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NLF=National Liberation Front=Mặt Trận Dân Tộc Giải Phóng,

PRG=Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam = Chính phủ Cách mạng Lâm thời Việt Nam,

DRVN= Democratic Republic of North Vietnam=Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cộng Hòa=cộng sản Bắc Việt.

DRV (also DRVN), Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam

NLF, National Liberation Front, Communist front organization in South Vietnam acting as political government of the insurgency; later renamed Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam

NVA, North Vietnamese Army, term used by the United States for the People’s Army of (North) Vietnam

PAVN, People’s Army of (North) Vietnam

PLAF, People’s Liberation Armed Forces, Communist forces in South Vietnam, synonymous with Viet Cong

PRG, Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam, political wing of the South Vietnamese Communist movement, replaced the National Liberation Front (NLF), but the terms are often used interchangeably

Paris Peace Talks, a loosely defined term that, depending on context, could mean the secret meetings between Henry Kissinger for the United States and Le Duc Tho for the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam or the 174 meetings of the public talks held from 1968 to 1973 between the United States and the Republic of (South) Vietnam on one side and the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam on the other; the latter were also known as Plenary or Avénue Kléber talks

Rue Darthé, 11 Rue Darthé, the address of one of the residences of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam in the Paris suburb of Choisy-le-Roi used as a venue for the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations.

Avenue Kléber (also Ave. Kléber or Kléber), address of the International Conference Center at the Hotel Majestic in Paris, the site of the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks; see also Paris Peace Talks

SALT, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Seven Points, peace plan presented by Kissinger on May 31, 1971, at his meeting with Le Duc Tho; peace plan presented by the NLF Delegation in July 1971 at the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks

Nine Points, peace plan presented by Xuan Thuy on June 26, 1971

Ten Points, peace plan presented by NLF delegate Madame Binh on May 8, 1969, at the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks; peace plan presented by Le Duc Tho on August 1, 1972, at his meeting with Kissinger; peace plan presented by Kissinger on August 14, 1972, at his meeting with Le Duc Tho

Two-Point Elaboration, elaboration of the Ten Point peace plan presented by the DRV Delegation on February 2, 1972, at the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks

Twelve Points, peace plan presented by Kissinger on August 1, 1972, at his meeting with Le Duc Tho

strategic hamlets, a South Vietnamese Government program to counter Viet Cong control in the countryside. The government relocated farmers into fortified hamlets to provide defense, economic aid, and political assistance to residents. The hope was that protection from Viet Cong raids and taxation would bind the rural populace to the government and gain their loyalty. The program started in 1962, but was fatally undermined by over expansion and poor execution. By 1964 it had clearly failed.

GVN, Government of (South) Vietnam

RVN, Republic of (South) Vietnam

RVNAF, Republic of (South) Vietnam Armed Forces

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v42/terms

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