20241009 CDTL LBJ MemDOW Pres D257
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v01/sources
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v01/terms
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v01/persons
VIII.
U.S. Reaction To Events in the Gulf of Tonkin, August 1–10 (Documents 255–308)
1. Document 257
Foreign Relations of the United
States, 1964–1968, Volume I, Vietnam, 1964
257. Memorandum From the Duty Officer
in the White House Situation Room to the President1
Washington, August
2, 1964..
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v01/d257
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v01/d257#fnref:1.7.4.4.36.14.8.5
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v01/d257#fnref:1.7.4.4.36.14.12.3.20.6
Thân
thế (các) nhân vật/
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
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
Rusk,
Dean,
Secretary
of State.
https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/rusk-david-dean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Rusk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_State_for_East_Asian_and_Pacific_Affairs
https://millercenter.org/president/kennedy/essays/rusk-1961-secretary-of-state
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/rusk-dean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_State_for_International_Organization_Affairs
Nguyen Van Thieu,
President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) until April 21,
1975
PHỎNG VẤN VỚI LỊCH SỬ - TỔNG THỐNG NGUYỄN VĂN THIỆU - Năm
1972
https://www.facebook.com/groups/373876840199844/permalink/1216306329290220/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/373876840199844/
Tổng
thống Thiệu trả lời phỏng vấn năm 1972 (Ms.O Fallaci) - Ep.1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67J_48hfPik
Tổng
thống Thiệu trả lời phỏng vấn năm 1972 (Ms.O Fallaci) - Ep.2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INAfcRW3Prc
Tổng
thống Thiệu trả lời phỏng vấn năm 1972 (Ms.O Fallaci) - Ep.3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_tOrafUIOY
Phỏng
vấn cố Tổng thống VNCH Nguyễn Văn Thiệu full
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_36BXxpEjw
Tổng
thống Nguyễn Văn Thiệu đáp trả xuất sắc những gì Kissinger đề cập về Vietnam
War | NAMDUONGTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrA2OaHueFM&t=1802s
3/29/75 - Evacuation
of Vietnamese Refugees
4/3/75 - Phnom Penh
Evacuation
4/5/75 - Evacuation
of Vietnamese Refugees (1)
4/5/75 - Evacuation
of Vietnamese Refugees (2)
4/5/75 - Evacuation
of Vietnamese Refugees (3)
4/5/75 - Evacuation
of Vietnamese Refugees (4)
4/29/75 - Final
Evacuation of Saigon (1)
4/29/75 - Final Evacuation of Saigon (2)
Dau Bach Ho1X Feb 11
1975 Thieu
Tôi Không Chết Đâu | Hồi
Ức Miền Nam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJdQN0DYBvA
Thư Tổng Thống Thiệu Gửi
Tổng Thống Gerald Ford
https://bachvietnhan.blogspot.com/2024/03/20240322-cdtl-thu-thieu-gui-gerald-ford.html
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v10/d166
Cambodia
Arms and Ammunition to the Vietnamese Communists
Discover the
Truth at:
https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-cias-vietnam-document-cd-rom/
https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/cia/EOM-2019-00201-highlighted.pdf
Giây Phút Xé Lòng | Hồi Ức
Miền Nam | Hồi Ký Miền Nam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WVwGiPD8Cs&t=2329
The Palace File
Paperback – January 1, 1989
by Nguyen Tien Hung
(Author), Jerrold L. Schecter (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Palace-File-Nguyen-Tien-Hung/dp/0060915722
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2098486
Khi đồng minh tháo chạy
Nguyen Tien Hung
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32865811-khi-ng-minh-th-o-ch-y?ref=nav_sb_noss_l_23
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 1 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDhuGRvfKjw
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 2 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZceUYCf7rqA
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 3 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2ET40EOGno
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 4 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFzsesWm25E
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 5 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2GMhs4DmBI
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 6 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMxfY_QGgwo
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 7 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvjmvn78kgo
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 8 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sylK7RDtLrc
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 9 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmF6urvaz0c
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 10 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ig4PIzMFZM
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 11 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUFtNrT9sRo
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 12 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4KYPScqNMY
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 13 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29lrLqX6vEo
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 14 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-WAarbW-fo
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 15 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GAo2fXzGBQ
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 16 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Kb37dchNw
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 17 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DChfJXgR-8
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 18 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCYj9b4Tw6E
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 19 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm45ygXmqzY
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 20 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvUiF8wVJBg
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 21 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIZRlk6m4Eg
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 22 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNv27DbdcOI
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 23 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C5qfHEJNu4
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 24 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyg98DfK31E
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 25 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxcX0dKgKlA
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 26 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adUtaGlDcho
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 27 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-1xxI1OWh8
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 28 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PazkNBf3rGA
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 29 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIbsM20p14
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 30 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ZcLZtx_6M
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 31 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4u5jqW3nbg
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 32 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHHx5wQlabw
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 33 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpKZuQNdJJU
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 34 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Dễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGesHXnpZkw
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 35 / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ZOXJyjMTk
Hồ Sơ Mật Dinh Độc Lập Phần 36 Cuối Cùng / Nguyễn Tiến Hưng/ Diễn Đọc
Thiên Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYztC95fn4M
Khi Đồng Minh Nhảy Vào
https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Nguy%E1%BB%85n-Ti%E1%BA%BFn-H%C6%B0ng/dp/1495148629
Khi Đồng Minh Tháo Chạy Hardcover – January 1, 2005
https://www.amazon.com/Khi-%C4%90%E1%BB%93ng-Minh-Th%C3%A1o-Ch%E1%BA%A1y/dp/B00GQIWRA6
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32865811-khi-ng-minh-th-o-ch-y
HỒI KÝ: NHỮNG UẤT HẬN
TRONG TRẬN CHIẾN MẤT NƯỚC 1975 (Phần 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7YpCRv6MlI&t=487s
HỒI KÝ: NHỮNG UẤT HẬN
TRONG TRẬN CHIẾN MẤT NƯỚC 1975 (Phần 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX9-eocj8hQ&t=803s
HỒI KÝ: NHỮNG UẤT HẬN
TRONG TRẬN CHIẾN MẤT NƯỚC 1975 (Phần 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6rCp-RnGQ4&t=561s
HỒI KÝ: NHỮNG UẤT HẬN
TRONG TRẬN CHIẾN MẤT NƯỚC 1975 (Phần 4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y1YWYjcYUs
HỒI KÝ: NHỮNG UẤT HẬN
TRONG TRẬN CHIẾN MẤT NƯỚC 1975 (Phần 5)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL7LO65oI_k&t=11s
HỒI KÝ: NHỮNG UẤT HẬN
TRONG TRẬN CHIẾN MẤT NƯỚC 1975 (Phần 6)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsYcJCD0cwY
HỒI KÝ: NHỮNG UẤT HẬN
TRONG TRẬN CHIẾN MẤT NƯỚC 1975 (Phần 7)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kclMjgFLtUw&t=371s
HỒI KÝ: NHỮNG UẤT HẬN
TRONG TRẬN CHIẾN MẤT NƯỚC 1975 (Phần 8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bsh7jTMF_o
HỒI KÝ: NHỮNG UẤT HẬN
TRONG TRẬN CHIẾN MẤT NƯỚC 1975 (Phần 9)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzhsA-ZZQ4Q&t=1265s
HỒI KÝ: NHỮNG UẤT HẬN
TRONG TRẬN CHIẾN MẤT NƯỚC 1975 (Phần 10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKBXiYNQMbc&t=18s
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
“South Vietnamese
Communists Sought Negotiated End
After the fall of
Hue, that was discarded as unnecessary. Then the second possibility was
considered, to insist on replacing Mr. Thieu with a personality of the “third force” who had been in
contact with the Provincial Revolutionary Government, such as Gen. Duong Van Minh, and negotiating a government with
him.
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/12/archives/south-vietnamese-communists-sought-negotiated-end.html”
Chou En lai Kissinger July 9 1971 MemCon D139
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v17/d139
PM Chou: We don’t believe in the elections in
South Vietnam. It is a different situation, There are August elections and
October elections and you help Thieu. Have you discussed this
situation with Mr. Minh?
Dr. Kissinger: Yes, on this trip.
PM Chou: They want you to get rid of the government.
Dr. Kissinger: They can’t ask us both to withdraw
and get rid of the government of Vietnam. To do both of these is impossible.
PM Chou: We have not exchanged views at this
point. We have always thought on this matter that we cannot interfere in these
affairs. If you withdraw and they want to continue the civil war, none of us
should interfere. The situation has been created over a long time.
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v17/d139
July 12 1972 Discussion between Zhou Enlai and
Le Duc Tho
Zhou Enlai: Is Duong Van Minh
[2] acceptable?
Le Duc Tho: This is a complicated problem. Duong Van Minh is
not totally pro-American. Yet, the tripartite government is very
provisional.
Le Duc Tho: Duong Van Minh is exactly like this. But the important thing
is how to make the US accept the principle of the establishment of a tripartite
government. And further discussion on dividing positions and power should
be held after this.
https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/discussion-between-zhou-enlai-and-le-duc-tho
Discover the Truth at:
https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-cias-vietnam-document-cd-rom/
List of presidents of the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States
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.”
(We
also had trouble with excesses here: 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. Ironically, we
prepared the South Vietnamese for main force warfare after 1954 (anticipating another Korean-type attack), and they faced a political war; they had prepared
themselves for political warfare after 1973 only to be faced with a main force
invasion 20 years after it had been expected.)
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v10/d280
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
List of Participants in the Geneva
Conference on Indochina
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v16/ch5subch4
The Geneva Conference on Indochina May
8–July 21, 1954
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
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
***
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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Gulf of Tonkin
Senate Stories Chairman
J William Fulbright and the 1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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