The Vietnam War

Chap. 1. Prewar diplomacy: The Vietnamese declaration of independence / Ho Chi Minh

The Truman doctrine / Harry S. Truman

The United States should consider intervention in Vietnam / John Foster Dulles

The United States should be cautious about intervention in Vietnam / John F. Kennedy

Chap. 2. American intervention: U.S. foreign policy is leading toward war in Vietnam / Wayne Morse

The United States must fight communist aggression in Vietnam / Lyndon B. Johnson

The United States is the aggressor in Vietnam / Ho Chi Minh

The Vietnamese people will defeat the imperialist aggressors /

Le Duan

Chap. 3. The war abroad: The Vietnam war is an external aggression, not a local conflict / George W. Ball

The United States will defeat the communist aggressors / William C. Westmoreland

The United States must fight with limited means for limited objectives / Dean Rusk

The United States must fight to win the Vietnam War / Barry Goldwater

Chap. 4. The war at home: U.S. corporate liberalism creates and sustains the Vietnam War / Carl Oglesby

The Vietnam War is a symptom of an American spiritual malady / Martin Luther King Jr.

U.S. imperial foreign policy is creating two wars: the war abroad and the war at home / J. William Fulbright

The United States cannot win the Vietnam War / Robert F. Kennedy

Chap. 5. American withdrawal: De-escalation and renunciation in search of peace in Vietnam / Lyndon B. Johnson

Americans should support the Vietnamization plan for ending the Vietnam War / Richard M. Nixon

Vietnam veterans call for withdrawal from the Vietnam war / John Kerry

The United States is bringing peace with honor to Vietnam / Richard M. Nixon

Chap. 6. Postwar legacy

The invisible Vietnam veteran / James H. Webb

The unknown soldier of the Vietnam war / Ronald Reagan

Foreign policy lessons of the Vietnam War / George P. Shultz

A declaration of interdependence between the United States and Vietnam / William Jefferson Clinton.