دانلود کتاب The Vietnam War (1956-1975) (Defining Documents in American History)

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Defining Documents in American History: The Vietnam War (1956-1975)
Table of Contents
Publisher’s Note
Editor’s Introduction
Contributors
Kennedy’s War
Senator John F. Kennedy on America’s Stake in Vietnam
“The Path of Revolution in the South”
President Ngo Dinh Diem: Address to US Congress
Memo from Ambassador Durbrow to Diem
Notes on a National Security Council Meeting
Letter from JFK to Diem
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield on US Policy in Southeast Asia
On the Prospect of a Generals’ Coup
Televised Interview with President Kennedy
Ambassador Lodge on the Worsening Situation
Johnson’s War
CIA Memo on National Liberation Front Methods
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
A New Approach to Retaliation
LBJ: “Peace Without Conquest”
Meeting Between the President and His Advisors
“Why We Are in Vietnam”
A Recommendation for Troop Increases
General Westmoreland on Military Operations
“No Attractive Course of Action”
The Tet Offensive: A CIA Assessment
The President and His Advisors Review the Situation
Testimony regarding the My Lai Massacre
President Johnson on Limiting the War
The Antiwar Movement
Call for a March on Washington
Protest Speech by Paul Potter
Message from Ho Chi Minh
Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Beyond Vietnam”
An Antidraft Call to Action
An Unwinnable War
“We are Mired in Stalemate”
Weathermen Manifesto
George McGovern Urges an End to the War
Report of the President’s Commission on Campus Unrest, with Response from President Nixon
John Kerry’s Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nixon’s War
Conversation between Presidents Nixon and Thiêu
Henry Kissinger to Nixon
Nixon on the “Silent Majority” and “Vietnamization”
Nixon on Operations in Cambodia
Taped Conversation between Nixon and Kissinger
President Nixon to President Thiêu
The Paris Peace Accords
Aftermath
Plea for Emergency Aid for Saigon
Pardon of Draft Evaders
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Appendixes
Chronological List
Web Resources
Bibliography
Index