20241208 CDTL LBJ MemCon Hilsman Lodge D327

20241208 CDTL LBJ MemCon Hilsman Lodge D327

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Khởi đầu cho thời đại Tổng Thống Johnson sau khi chấm dứt thời đại Tổng Thống Kennedy vào ngày 22 tháng 11 năm 1963.

Federal Judge administered the oath of office to President Johnson on Air Force One at Love Field.

President Johnson taking the Oath of Office on Air Force One, 1963

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/lyndon-johnson-taking-oath-1963/

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C5nCM2ZcxEk/WH8BimLpH5I/AAAAAAAAMLM/lpCyAN_yGjcs0IkeqmjGuRj5SsATIs7KQCLcB/s1600/Lyndon_B_Johnson_taking_the_oath_of_office_1.jpg

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RCdbWHLiGe0/WH8BiZqC3-I/AAAAAAAAMLI/l0uH9RIHFh868qqzkDnwUbe6VraXqbZvgCLcB/s1600/Lyndon_B_Johnson_taking_the_oath_of_office_2.jpg

Chính Phủ Lâm Thời do Quân Đội VNCH Cầm Quyền

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List of Sources

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

List of Abbreviations

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

List of Persons

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

Vietnam

V. The Johnson Presidency, November 22-December 31, 1963: Lodge-Johnson Meeting on Vietnam, NSAM 273, McNamara Visit, Year-end Observations (Documents 323–383)

1.    Document 327

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

327. Memorandum of Conversation Between the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (Hilsman) and the Ambassador to Vietnam (Lodge)1

Washington, November 24, 1963, 10 a.m.

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d327

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/pg_633

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d327#fnref:1.7.4.6.24.22.8.6

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d327#fnref:1.7.4.6.24.22.16.3

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v01/d72

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d327#fnref:1.7.4.6.24.22.20.2

Thân thế (các) nhân vật.

Harriman, W. Averell,

Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs until April 3, 1963; thereafter Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and Chairman of the Special Group for Counterinsurgency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Averell_Harriman#References

https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/harriman-william-averell

https://adst.org/oral-history/fascinating-figures/averell-harriman-the-old-crocodile-of-diplomacy/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-Averell-Harriman

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Harriman-365

https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/HARRIMAN

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

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 

Nes, David G.,

Deputy Chief of Mission in Saigon from December 1963

https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Nes,%20David%20G.toc.pdf

https://www.loc.gov/item/mfdipbib000855/

https://www.discoverlbj.org/item/nesd

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/6549599/National-Security-Archive-Doc-14-David-G-Nes-to.pdf

Ngo Dinh Nhu,

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

Ngo Dinh Nhu, Madame (Tran Le Xuan),

wife of Ngo Dinh Nhu and member of the Vietnamese National Assembly; official hostess for President Diem

Bà Ngô Đình Nhu năm 1982 (Providence Nguyễn phụ đề Việt Ngữ)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iEu0jx6fGU&t=131s

Johnson, Lyndon B., (Lyndon Baines Johnson)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://www.lbjlibrary.org/life-and-legacy/the-man-himself/lbjs-ancestors

https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&n=johnson&p=lyndon+baines

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

SWEARING IN OF LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON

https://www.inaugural.senate.gov/swearing-in-of-lyndon-baines-johnson/

First inauguration of Lyndon Baines Johnson

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Lyndon_B._Johnson_taking_the_oath_of_office%2C_November_1963.jpg/360px-Lyndon_B._Johnson_taking_the_oath_of_office%2C_November_1963.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/LBJ_oath_with_captions.jpg/600px-LBJ_oath_with_captions.jpg

President Johnson taking the Oath of Office on Air Force One 1963

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/lyndon-johnson-taking-oath-1963/

GULF OF TONKIN RECORDINGS

https://millercenter.org/gulf-tonkin-recordings

https://www.nsa.gov/Helpful-Links/NSA-FOIA/Declassification-Transparency-Initiatives/Historical-Releases/Gulf-of-Tonkin/

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 

https://www.facebook.com/1831861973/posts/pfbid0FNN9UXFDYKuR9u6VPb8AeWRsknsNLsCZfgZBuKXWyZbzcGtGmPzrX65JtfUFrWykl/?d=n&mibextid=qC1gEa

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:

http://www.theblackvault.com

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

20241102 Nixon, Kissinger and the Decent Interval

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/nixon-kissinger-and-the-decent-interval

https://player.vimeo.com/video/889937807?h=e44572c8f3&color=e57200&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0

A Decent Interval

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xPzs3NZdN4

Richard Nixon Addresses The "Decent Interval Theory"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q-H0281kfM

Transcript

In the Oval Office on August 3, 1972, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger tells President Richard Nixon that there’s a 50-50 chance of reaching a settlement with North Vietnam.

That deal would give Nixon a “decent interval,” a face-saving delay of a year or two between his final withdrawal of American troops and the Communists’ final takeover of South Vietnam. “We’ve got to find some formula that holds the thing together [for] a year or two, after which — after a year, Mr. President, Vietnam will be a backwater. If we settle it, say, this October, by January ’74 no one will give a damn.” 

August 3, 1972

Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation: 760-006

Having established a framework for an armistice and the departure a American troops from Vietnam, President Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry A. Kissinger discussed the future trajectory of the war. Most importantly, they wanted to secure a “decent interval” between the removal of those troops, Nixon’s reelection in 1972 and the expected fall of Saigon. At this point in the conversation, Kissinger had just told Nixon they had a 50/50 chance of reaching a settlement with North Vietnam.

President Nixon: Now, let’s look at that just a moment again, think about it some more, but… let’s be perfectly… cold-blooded about it. If you look at it from the standpoint of our game… with the Soviets and the Chinese, from the standpoint of running this country… I think we could take, in my view, almost anything, frankly, that we can force on Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. Almost anything. I just come down to that. You know what I mean?

President Nixon: Because I have a feeling we would not be doing, like I feel about the Israel, I feel that in the long run we’re probably not doing them an in – a disfavor due to the fact that I feel that the North Vietnamese are so badly hurt that the South Vietnamese are probably going to do fairly well. [Kissinger attempts to interject.] But also due to the fact-because I look at the tide of history out there-South Vietnam probably is never going to survive anyway. I’m just being perfectly candid. I-

Henry A. Kissinger: In the pull-out area-

President Nixon: [Unclear] we’ve got to be – if we can get certain guarantees so that they aren’t… as you know, looking at the foreign policy process, though, I mean, you’ve got to be-we also have to realize, Henry, that winning an election is terribly important.

It’s terribly important this year. But can we have a viable foreign policy if a year from now or two years from now, North Vietnam gobbles up South Vietnam? That’s the real question.

Kissinger: If a year or two years from now North Vietnam gobbles up South Vietnam, we can have a viable foreign policy if it looks as if it’s the result of South Vietnamese incompetence.

Kissinger: If we now sell out in such a way that, say, within a three-to four-month period, we have pushed President Thieu over the brink-we-ourselves-I think, there is going to be -even the Chinese won’t like that. I mean, they’ll pay verbal-verbally, they’ll like it.

President Nixon: But it’ll worry them.

Kissinger: But it will worry everybody. And domestically in the long run it won’t help us all that much because our opponents will say we should’ve done it three years ago.

President Nixon: I know.

Kissinger: So we’ve got to find formula that holds the thing together a year or two, after which-after a year, Mr. President, Vietnam will be a backwater. If we settle it, this October, by January 74 no one will give a damn.

President Nixon: Yeah, having in mind the fact that, you know, as we all know, the-the analogy-comparison [to] Algeria is not on-I not at all for us. But on the other hand, nobody gives a goddamn about what happened to Algeria-

Kissinger: Mm-hmm.

President Nixon: -after they got out. [chuckling] You know what I mean? But Vietnam, I must say… Jesus, they’ve fought so long, dying, and now… I don’t know.

End of excerpt.

Miller Center

University of Virginia

https://millercenter.org/

“Richard M. Nixon and Kissinger on 3 August 1972,” Conversation 760-006, Presidential Recordings Digital Edition [Fatal Politics, ed. Ken Huges] (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014-). URL:https://prde.upress.virginia.edu/conversations/4006748 

https://player.vimeo.com/video/889937807?h=e44572c8f3&color=e57200&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/nixon-kissinger-and-the-decent-interval

https://player.vimeo.com/video/889937807?h=e44572c8f3&color=e57200&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0

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

“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:

http://www.theblackvault.com

https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-cias-vietnam-document-cd-rom/

Tài liệu Chu Ân Lai yêu cầu Hoa Kỳ loại bỏ Tổng Thống Nguyễn Văn Thiệu củng như dùng Dương Văn Minh để lật đổ hai nền Đệ I và Đệ II VNCH.

https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/search?search_api_fulltext=&items_per_page=100&sort_bef_combine=created_DESC&f%5B0%5D=people%3A84942&fo%5B0%5D=84942

https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/discussion-between-zhou-enlai-and-le-duc-tho

https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/89367/download

Gulf of Tonkin

https://www.nsa.gov/Helpful-Links/NSA-FOIA/Declassification-Transparency-Initiatives/Historical-Releases/Gulf-of-Tonkin/

Senate Stories Chairman J William Fulbright and the 1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/senate-stories/chairman-fulbright-and-the-tonkin-gulf-resolution.htm

Trong Lòng Địch 1/25- Soạn giả Trần Trung Quân

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvSsjeUtQsk

2/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=937Vt16PRr4

3/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyARO-RnhIA

4/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBg-lqoNfVg

5/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Hy7SXn1Cc

6/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUXsAh74dzs

7/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLUxVAewbSM

8/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15uYFnpoDkc

9/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPu0sznLtW4

10/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq32GnqzacQ

11/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CL2Bw2_zoM

12/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Gq6URsSWA

13/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R69Y-w5yak

14/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgL2Wbs9kFQ

15/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_6VIzUel70

16/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tieKDqkLYEc

17/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpuPhZUR3Nc

18/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBbRi_gm3C0

19/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-5SmLIHmGI 

20/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7xE0wqxK3A

21/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMiwWlLoC9A

23/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4th3Jm1rSsI

24/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYLEGOoHOaQ

25/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9uvNutoM8

20.10.24 SỰ THẬT CHƯA TỪNG ĐƯỢC TIẾT LỘ VỀ CÁI CHẾT CỦA GIÁO CHỦ ĐỨC HUỲNH PHÚ SỔ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyP_90HMvuQ

ĐÀ NẴNG NĂM 1966 biến cố và hồi ký của tôi | Hồi Ký Miền Nam VN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obw-UeN6DKE&t=4332s

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

[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

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/frus19676v42/terms

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