Karnow, Vietnam: A History (1997)

Stanley Karnow.
Vietnam: A History, Second Revised and Updated Edition.
New York: Penguin Books, 1997.

Previous editions:
First Edition: New York: Viking Press, 1983.
Revised and Updated Edition: New York: Penguin Books, 1991.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Stanley Karnow (1925–2013), Wikipedia.
• Stanley Karnow, C-SPAN.org.
• Stanley Karnow, Penguin Random House.
• Stanley Karnow. In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines. New York: Random House, 1989.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video: Stanley Karnow

• Stanley Karnow, "Vietnam: A History," Greystone's American History Store, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 06 July 2001.
• David Halberstam, Bernard Kalb, Stanley Karnow, Barry Zorthian, "1968 and the Vietnam War," Freedom Forum Newseum, Arlington, Virginia, C-SPAN.org, 30 April 1998.
  • Newseum, newseum.org, Washington, D.C.
  • Newseum, Wikipedia.
  • David Halberstam (1934–2007), Wikipedia.
  • Bernard Kalb (b. 1922), Wikipedia.
  • Barry Zorthian (1920–2010), Wikipedia.
• Garrick Utley, Dennis Harter, Le Van Bang, Virginia Foote, Stanley Karnow, Frederick Z. Brown, "Vietnam Today," Discovery Channel Forum, C-SPAN.org, 25 April 1995.
  • Garrick Utley (1939–2014), Wikipedia.
  • Dennis Harter, C-SPAN.org.
  • Le Van Bang, Ambassador of Vietnam to the United States, May 1997 - 2001?
  • Virginia B. Foote, President and CEO, Bay Global Strategies.
  • Virginia Foote, American Chamber of Commerce in Hanoi.
  • Frederick Z. Brown. Second Chance: The United States and Indochina in the 1990s. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1989.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • History of Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies: Fred Brown was the Associate Director of Southeast Asia Studies Program, 1991–2005.
  • Johns Hopkins SAIS Southeast Asia Studies Program.
  • Frederick Z. Brown, Foreign Affairs Oral History Project, The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training.
    Copy at Library of Congress.
  • Frederick Z. Brown, "Vietnam Since the War (1975-1995)," Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1995.
  • Frederick Z. Brown, "Vietnam's Transformations: War, Development and Reform." In Legacy of Engagement in Southeast Asia, edited by Ann Marie Murphy, Bridget Welsh. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008. Pages 72-112.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Frederick Z. Brown, "Rapprochement Between Vietnam and the United States," Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs, Volume 32, Number 3, pages 317-342, December 2010.
• Michael Armacost, Peter Arnett, Stephen Hess, Marvin Kalb, Stanley Karnow, Ted Koppel, Daniel Schorr, Barry Zorthian, "The Role of the Press During War," Brookings Institution, C-SPAN.org, 31 October 2001.
  • Michael Armacost (b. 1937), Wikipedia.
  • Peter Arnett (b. 1934), Wikipedia.
  • Stephen H. Hess (b. 1933), Wikipedia.
  • Marvin Kalb (b. 1930), Wikipedia.
  • Ted Koppel (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
  • Daniel Schorr (1916–2010), Wikipedia.
  • Barry Zorthian (1920–2010), Wikipedia.
• Walter Cronkite, Peter Arnett, Neil Sheehan, Stanley Karnow, Joseph L. Galloway, Bert Quint, Kurt Volkert, Wallace Terry, Don North, Richard Pyle, "War Correspondents Reunion: Vietnam Part 1," [U.S. War Correspondents' Stories from Vietnam 1959-1964], No Greater Love, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 07 October 1995.
  • No Greater Love.
  • No Greater Love, Wikipedia.
  • Walter Cronkite (1916–2009), Wikipedia.
  • Peter Arnett (b. 1934), Wikipedia.
  • Neil Sheehan (b. 1936), Wikipedia.
  • Neil Sheehan. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1988. New York: Vintage Books (Random House), 1989.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Joseph L. Galloway (b. 1941), Wikipedia.
  • Bert Quint (b. 1930), Prabook.
    Howard Rosenberg, "Reporter's Love for CBS Long Extinguished," [about Bert Quint], Los Angeles Times, February 24, 1993.
  • Kurt Volkert and T. Jeff Williams. A Cambodian Odyssey: And the Deaths of 25 Journalists. Writer's Showcase Press (iUniverse.com), 2001.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Wallace Terry (1938–2003), Wikipedia.
  • Wallace Terry. Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History. New York: Random House, 1984. New York: Presidio Press / Ballantine Books (Random House), 1985.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Don North, C-SPAN.org.
  • Richard Pyle and Horst Faas. Lost Over Laos: A True Story Of Tragedy, Mystery, And Friendship. Boston: Da Capo Press (Hachette Book Group), 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Tad Bartimus, Bernard Kalb, Jack Reynolds, Peter Arnett, Kevin Delany, George Esper, Bill Plante, Ron Nessen, "War Correspondents Reunion: Vietnam Part 2," [U.S. War Correspondents' Stories from Vietnam 1973-1975], No Greater Love, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 07 October 1995.
  • No Greater Love.
  • No Greater Love, Wikipedia.
  • Tad Bartimus, C-SPAN.org.
  • Bernard Kalb (b. 1922), Wikipedia.
  • Jack Reynolds, C-SPAN.org.
  • Peter Arnett (b. 1934), Wikipedia.
  • Kevin Delany, C-SPAN.org.
  • George Esper (1932–2012), Wikipedia.
  • Bill Plante (b. 1938), Wikipedia.
  • Ron Nessen (b. 1934), Wikipedia.
• Ben Bradlee, Joseph D. Duffey, Harold Evans, Jesse Jackson, Stanley Karnow, Edmund Morris, Allen Weinstein, "The Twentieth Century," Center for Democracy, National Archives Theater, Washington, D.C., C-SPAN.org, 19 October 1998.
  • Harold Evans (b. 1928), Wikipedia.
  • Harold Evans. The American Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • American Century, Wikipedia.
  • Ben Bradlee (1921–2014), Wikipedia.
  • Joseph Duffey (b. 1932), Wikipedia.
  • Jesse Jackson (b. 1941), Wikipedia.
  • Edmund Morris (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
  • Allen Weinstein (1937–2015), Wikipedia.

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Other Video:

• Vietnam: A Television History, WGBH, 1983; 1997.
  • Vietnam: A Television History, Wikipedia.
  • Search YouTube for: Vietnam A Television History.
  • Note that Vietnam: A Television History was originally broadcast in 1983 in 13 episodes. In 1997 a re-edited version of the series was broadcast as part of the PBS American Experience series in 11 episodes; episodes 2 ("The First Vietnam War") and 13 ("Legacies") of the original series were omitted from the 1997 version. I think one should preferentially view the 1983 version which was distributed on VHS tape.
  • Raw video of the interviews (often quite long and detailed), from which brief excerpts were used in the documentary, is available at WGBH Open Vault: The Vietnam Collection, WGBH Media Library & Archives.
    For example:
    • Henry Cabot Lodge, 01 January 1979;
    • Maxwell Taylor, 30 January 1979;
    • Edward Lansdale, 31 January 1979;
    • J. Lawton Collins, 29 April 1981;
    • Paul M. Kattenburg, 07 May 1981;
    • Roger Hilsman, 11 May 1981;
    • George W. Ball, 18 May 1981.
• The Vietnam War, A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, PBS, 2017.
  • The Vietnam War, PBS.
  • The Vietnam War, Wikipedia.
  • The Vietnam War, IMDb.
  • Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns. The Vietnam War: An Intimate History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House), 2017.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• I collected some other videos related to the Vietnam War in my post for Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (1972); this includes, for example, several panel discussions at a conference on "Vietnam and the Presidency" held at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in 2006.

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Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org.

Selected Lectures Related to the Vietnam War:

• Sean Sculley, "The Vietnam War Era," U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, 14 April 2011.
  • LTC Seanegan Sculley, Department of History, U.S. Military Academy.
  • Frances FitzGerald, "A Clash of Cultures," in Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Vietnam War Anthology, Third Edition, edited by Andrew J. Rotter. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    This essay is an extract from FitzGerald's book Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam.
  • Frances FitzGerald. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Pierre Asselin, "The Vietnam War, 1965-75," San Diego State University, 22 March 2018.
  • Pierre Asselin, Department of History, San Diego State University.
  • Pierre Asselin. Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Pierre Asselin. Vietnam's American War: A History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Vietnam War, November 1955 – April 1975.
  • Lê Duẩn (1907–1986), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, September 1960 – July 1986.
  • William Westmoreland (1914–2005), Commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), June 1964 – 1968.
  • Sino-Soviet split, 1956–1966.
• Donald Stoker, "North Vietnamese Strategy During the Vietnam War," U.S. Naval War College, Monterey, California, 18 November 2011.
  • Donald Stoker, Wikipedia.
• Douglas Kennedy, "Vietnam War's 'Operation Rolling Thunder'," U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 15 March 2018.
  • Dr. Douglas Kennedy, Department of History, U.S. Air Force Academy.
  • James Clay Thompson. Rolling Thunder: Understanding Policy and Program Failure. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • John Schlight. A War Too Long: The USAF in Southeast Asia, 1961–1975. Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1996.
    [Archive.org; Air Force Historical Support Division.]
  • John Schlight. The War in South Vietnam: The Years of the Offensive, 1965–1968. Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1999.
    [Air Force Historical Support Division.]
  • Operation Rolling Thunder, began 02 March 1965.
  • Operation Linebacker, May – October 1972.
  • Operation Linebacker II ("The Christmas Bombings"), December 1972.
• Andrew Wiest and John Young, "The Vietnam War" [in 1967], University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 24 March 2016.
  • Andrew A. Wiest, Department of History, University of Southern Mississippi.
  • Dale Center for the Study of War and Society, University of Southern Mississippi.
  • Gregory A. Daddis. No Sure Victory: Measuring U.S. Army Effectiveness and Progress in the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway. We Were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1992.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Battle of Ia Drang, November 1965.
  • 1967 in the Vietnam War.
  • Operation Junction City, February – May 1967.
  • Đồng Tâm Base Camp.
  • Mobile Riverine Force.
  • Vietnam War Timeline: 1967, VietnamGear.com.
• Richard Faulkner, "Tet Offensive to Vietnam War's End," U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 01 March 2018.
  • Richard S. Faulkner, C-SPAN.org.
  • Vietnam War, November 1955 – April 1975.
  • Tet Offensive, began 30 January 1968.
  • Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson: Foreign affairs, November 1963 – January 1969.
  • United States presidential election, 1968, Nixon versus Humphrey versus Wallace.
  • Presidency of Richard Nixon: Foreign policy, January 1969 – August 1974.

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• Lisa Brady, "Battling Nature in Korea and Vietnam," Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, 09 April 2015.
  • Lisa Brady, Department of History, Boise State University.
  • Environmental history.
  • Korean War, June 1950 – July 1953.
  • Vietnam War, November 1955 – April 1975.
  • White phosphorus munitions.
  • Allotropes of phosphorus: White phosphorus.
  • Operation Ranch Hand, 1962 – 1971.
  • Rainbow Herbicides.
  • Agent Orange (50% 2,4,5-T; 50% 2,4-D).
  • Arthur Galston (1920–2008).
  • Operation Pacer HO, 1977.
• David Farber, "Vietnam Anti-War Movement," Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 21 October 2010.
  • History, Temple University.
  • David Farber, Department of History, University of Kansas.
  • David Farber, Wikipedia.
  • David Farber, C-SPAN.org.
  • David Farber. The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s. New York: Hill and Wang, 1994.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    My post on The Age of Great Dreams is here.
  • David Farber, editor. The Sixties: From Memory to History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • David Farber. Chicago '68. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • Lists of protests against the Vietnam War.
  • Eugene McCarthy presidential campaign, 1968.
  • Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968).
  • United States presidential election, 1968, Nixon versus Humphrey versus Wallace.
• Meredith Lair, "Vietnam Veterans," George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 24 September 2012.
  • Meredith H. Lair, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University.
  • Meredith H. Lair. Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Tracy Kidder. My Detachment: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 2005.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Jerry Lembcke. The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Bob Greene. Homecoming: When the Soldiers Returned from Vietnam. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Vietnam veteran.
• Melissa Borja, "Post-Vietnam War Refugees," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 10 April 2018.
  • Melissa Borja, Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, University of Michigan.
  • Melissa Borja, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan.
  • Melissa Borja, American Culture, University of Michigan.
  • Melissa Borja. Follow the New Way: Hmong Refugee Resettlement and Practice of American Religious Pluralism. Not yet published.
  • Viet Thanh Nguyen. The Sympathizer. New York: Grove Press, 2015.
    [Publisher; Author's Website; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Viet Thanh Nguyen, "The Hidden Scars All Refugees Carry," The New York Times, 02 September 2016.
    (Copy at author's website.)
  • Indochina refugee crisis.
  • Refugee Act of 1980.
• Julian Zelizer, "1970s Conservative Movement and Foreign Policy," Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 21 February 2018.
  • Julian E. Zelizer, Department of History, Princeton University.
  • Julian E. Zelizer, Princeton University.
  • Julian E. Zelizer, C-SPAN.org.
  • Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer, editors. Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer. Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Presidency of Richard Nixon: Foreign policy, January 1969 – August 1974.
  • Presidency of Gerald Ford: Foreign affairs, August 1974 – January 1977.
  • United States presidential election, 1976, Carter versus Ford.
  • Presidency of Jimmy Carter: Foreign affairs, January 1977 – January 1981.
  • United States presidential election, 1980, Reagan versus Carter versus Anderson.
  • History of conservatism in the United States: 1970s.
  • Conservatism in the United States.

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• Brooks Simpson, "Presidents and War Powers," Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 26 October 2015.
  • Brooks Simpson, Arizona State University.
  • Brooks D. Simpson (b. 1957), Wikipedia.
  • Crossroads, Simpson's blog.
  • Brooks D. Simpson, C-SPAN.org.
  • Quasi-War, July 1798 – September 1800.
  • First Barbary War, May 1801 – June 1805.
  • Presidency of James K. Polk: Foreign affairs, March 1845 – March 1849.
  • Battle of Fort Sumter, April 1861.
  • Spanish–American War, 1898.
  • Philippine–American War, February 1899 – July 1902.
  • Banana Wars, 1898–1934.
  • American entry into World War I.
  • United States non-interventionism: Non-interventionism before entering World War II.
  • Lend-Lease, 1941.
  • Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939 – May 1945.
  • Military history of the United States during World War II.
  • Cold War, 1946–1991.
  • Gulf of Tonkin incident, August 1964.
  • Presidency of Richard Nixon: Foreign policy, January 1969 – August 1974.
  • Operation Menu, bombing campaign in eastern Cambodia, March 1969 – May 1970.
  • Cambodian Campaign, April – July 1970.
  • Operation Freedom Deal, Cambodia, May 1970 – August 1973.
  • War Powers Resolution of 1973.
  • 2003 invasion of Iraq.
• Charles Dobbs, "John F. Kennedy's Foreign Policy," Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 11 October 2013.
  • Department of History, Iowa State University.
  • Charles Dobbs, retired, LinkedIn.
  • Presidency of John F. Kennedy: Foreign affairs, January 1961 – November 1963.
  • Foreign policy of the John F. Kennedy administration.
  • National Security Action Memorandum 263, 11 October 1963.
  • National Security Action Memorandum 273, 26 November 1963.
• Joan Hoff, "Presidents, War, and Public Opinion," Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, 26 September 2011.
  (Curiously little or no discussion of the Vietnam War.)
  • Also known as Joan Hoff Wilson.
  • Carol Schmidt, "From Butte to PBS: Noted historian keeps hand in history as an MSU adjunct," Montana State University, 02 December 2003.
  • Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University.
  • Joan Hoff, Organization of American Historians.
  • Joan Hoff. A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Dreams of Perfectibility. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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• Kyle Longley, "President Johnson and the Vietnam War in 1968," Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 09 April 2018.
  • Kyle Longley, Arizona State University.
  • School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University.
  • Anne Wheeler, "Historian Kyle Longley named Director, LBJ Presidential Library," LBJ Presidential Library, 18 July 2018.
  • Staff, LBJ Presidential Library.
  • Kyle Longley. LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson: Foreign affairs, November 1963 – January 1969.
  • 1968 in the United States.
  • 1968 in the Vietnam War.
  • Lyndon B. Johnson, "Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union," 17 January 1968.
    Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/237325.
  • Battle of Khe Sanh, January – July 1968.
  • Tet Offensive, began 30 January 1968.
  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., 04 April 1968.
  • Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, 05 June 1968.
  • 1968 Democratic National Convention, 26–29 August 1968.
  • United States presidential election, 1968, Nixon versus Humphrey versus Wallace.
  • Anna Chennault (1925–2018).
• Margaret O'Mara, "1968 Presidential Election," University of Washington, Seattle, 15 February 2017.
  • Margaret O'Mara, Department of History, University of Washington.
  • Margaret O'Mara, margaretomara.com.
  • United States presidential election, 1964, Johnson versus Goldwater.
  • 1968 in the United States.
  • 1968 in the Vietnam War.
  • Tet Offensive, began 30 January 1968.
  • Battle of Huế, January – March 1968.
  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., 04 April 1968.
  • Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, 05 June 1968.
  • 1968 Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, 05–08 August 1968.
  • 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 26–29 August 1968.
  • United States presidential election, 1968, Nixon versus Humphrey versus Wallace.
• Leonard Steinhorn, "Impact of 1968," American University, Washington, D.C., 01 April 2013.
  • Leonard Steinhorn, School of Communication, American University.
  • Leonard Steinhorn, Wikipedia.
  • Leonard "Lenny" Steinhorn, C-SPAN.org.
  • Leonard Steinhorn. The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy. New York: Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press / Macmillan, 2006.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • 1968 in the United States.
  • 1968 in the Vietnam War.
  • Tet Offensive, began 30 January 1968.
  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., 04 April 1968.
  • Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, 05 June 1968.
  • 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 26–29 August 1968.
  • United States presidential election, 1968, Nixon versus Humphrey versus Wallace.

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Wikipedia Articles, etc.:

• Vietnam War, November 1955 – April 1975.
• Outline of the Vietnam War.
• 1954 in the Vietnam War, and articles for each succeeding year.
• Vietnam War Timeline, VietnamGear.com.

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• Historical and Political Context of U.S. Intervention in Vietnam
• United States Strategic Bombing Survey, report released on 30 September 1945.
  (Vietnam era U.S. policy makers knew about this study but most ignored its conclusions.)
• Origins of the Cold War.
• Cold War.
• History of United States foreign policy: Cold War: 1947–91.
• Harry S. Truman, "Special Message to the Congress on Greece and Turkey: The Truman Doctrine," March 12, 1947. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project.
• Truman Doctrine, March 1947.
• Chinese Civil War, 1927–1937 and 1946–1950.
• NSC 68, "United States Objectives and Programs for National Security," April 1950.
• NSC 68 [PDF], Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.
• Korean War, June 1950 – July 1953.
• First Indochina War, December 1946 – July 1954.
• McCarthyism.
  (During the 1950s and 1960s Democratic party politicians feared accusations of being "soft on communism".)
• Decolonization.
• Decolonisation of Asia.
• Wars of national liberation.

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• Vietnam and Events
• History of Vietnam.
• Culture of Vietnam.
• French Indochina, 1887 – 1954.
• First Indochina War, December 1946 – July 1954.
• State of Vietnam, 1949–1955.
• Bảo Đại (1913–1997), head of state (Emperor), State of Vietnam, 1949–1955.
• Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969).
• Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911–2013).
• Việt Minh.
• North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam), 1945 – 1975.
• Phạm Văn Đồng (1906–2000), Prime Minister of North Vietnam, 1955–1976; Prime Minister of Vietnam, 1976–1987.
• Lê Duẩn (1907–1986), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, September 1960 – July 1986.
• Battle of Dien Bien Phu, March – May 1954.
• 1954 Geneva Conference, April – July 1954.

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• South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam), 1955 – 1975.
• Ngo Dinh Diem (1901–1963), President of the Republic of Vietnam, October 1955 – November 1963.
• Ngô Đình Thục (1897–1984), Archbishop of Huế, brother of Ngo Dinh Diem.
• Ngô Đình Nhu (1910–1963), brother of Ngo Dinh Diem.
• Madame Nhu (1924–2011), wife of Ngô Đình Nhu.
• Ngô Đình Cẩn (1911–1964), brother of Ngo Dinh Diem.
• Viet Cong, National Liberation Front (NLF), founded December 1960.
• Buddhist crisis, South Vietnam, May – November 1963.
• Thích Quảng Đức: Self-immolation, 11 June 1963.
• Cable 243, 24 August 1963.
• 1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état, November 1963.
• John Prados, "JFK and the Diem Coup," National Security Archive, 05 November 2003.
• Reaction to the 1963 South Vietnamese coup.
• Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (1908–1976), Prime Minister of South Vietnam, November 1963 – January 1964.
• Dương Văn Minh ("Big Minh") (1916–2001), Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, South Vietnam, November 1963 – January 1964.
• Nguyễn Khánh (1927–2013), Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, South Vietnam, January 1964 – February 1965.
• South Vietnam government of Thieu / Ky / Co established June 1965.
  • Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (1923–2001).
  • Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (1930–2011).
  • Nguyễn Hữu Có (1925–2012).

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• Battle of Ap Bac, first major battle victory of NLF, 02 January 1963.
• Gulf of Tonkin incident, August 1964.
• Battle of Binh Gia, 28 December 1964 – 01 January 1965, NLF victory.
• Operation Rolling Thunder, began 02 March 1965.
• U.S. Marines arrive at Da Nang, 08 March 1965.
• Battle of Ia Drang, November 1965.
• Buddhist Uprising of 1966.
• Operation Cedar Falls, January 1967.
• Battle of Khe Sanh, January – July 1968.
• Tet Offensive, began 30 January 1968.
• Battle of Huế, January – March 1968.
• Battle of Hamburger Hill, May 1969.
• Cambodian Campaign, April – July 1970.
• Easter Offensive, March – October 1972.
• Paris Peace Accords, signed 27 January 1973.
• Battle of Phước Long, December 1974 – January 1975.
• 1975 Spring Offensive.
• Fall of Saigon, 30 April 1975.

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• United States in Vietnam
• Role of the United States in the Vietnam War.
• Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower: Foreign affairs, January 1953 – January 1961.
• J. Lawton Collins (1896–1987), Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, August 1949 – August 1953; U.S. Special Representative in Vietnam, November 1954 – May 1955.
• Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), MAAG Indochina, 1950; reorganized with creation of MAAG Vietnam, 01 November 1955.
• U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), created February 1962.
• Presidency of John F. Kennedy: Foreign affairs, January 1961 – November 1963.
• Foreign policy of the John F. Kennedy administration.
• Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson: Foreign affairs, November 1963 – January 1969.
• McGeorge Bundy (1919–1996), National Security Advisor, January 1961 – February 1966.
• Robert McNamara (1916–2009), Secretary of Defense, January 1961 – February 1968.
• Dean Rusk (1909–1994), Secretary of State, January 1961 – January 1969.

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• Frederick Nolting (1911–1989), U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, 1961–1963.
• Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902–1985), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, January 1947 – January 1953; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, January 1953 – September 1960; U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, August 1963 – June 1964 and August 1965 – April 1967.
• Maxwell D. Taylor (1901–1987), Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, October 1962 – July 1964; U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, July 1964 – July 1965.
• Ellsworth Bunker (1894–1984), U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, April 1967 – May 1973.
• Graham Martin (1912–1990), U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, September 1973 – May 1975.

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• Paul D. Harkins (1904–1984), Commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), 1962 – June 1964.
• William Westmoreland (1914–2005), Commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), June 1964 – June 1968.
• Creighton Abrams (1914–1974), Commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), June 1968 – June 1972.
• Edward Lansdale (1908–1987), U.S. Air Force; CIA officer.
• Lucien Conein (1919–1998), U.S. Army; CIA officer.
• John Paul Vann (1924–1972), U.S. Army.
• William E. DePuy (1919–1992), U.S. Army.
• Robert Komer (1922–2000), first head of Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) in South Vietnam.

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• George Ball (1909–1994), Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, February – December 1961; Under Secretary of State, December 1961 – September 1966.
• Roger Hilsman (1919–2014), Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (Department of State), February 1961 – April 1963; Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, May 1963 – March 1964.
• W. Averell Harriman (1891–1986), Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, December 1961 – April 1963; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, April 1963 – March 1965.
• William Bundy (1917–2000), Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, March 1964 – May 1969.
• Nicholas Katzenbach (1922–2012), Attorney General, February 1965 – October 1966; Under Secretary of State, October 1966 – January 1969.
• Paul M. Kattenburg (1922–2004), State Department. [Obituary, The Washington Post.]
• John A. McCone (1902–1991), Under Secretary of the Air Force, June 1950 – October 1951; Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, July 1958 – January 1961; Director of Central Intelligence, November 1961 – April 1965.
• Clark Clifford (1906–1998), White House Counsel, February 1946 – January 1950; Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, April 1963 – February 1968; Secretary of Defense, March 1968 – January 1969.
• John McNaughton (1921–1967), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1964–1967.
• Paul Warnke (1920–2001), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1967 – 1969.
• Paul Nitze (1907–2004), Director of Policy Planning at Department of State, 1950–1953; Secretary of the Navy, November 1963 – June 1967; Deputy Secretary of Defense, July 1967 – January 1969.
• Walt Rostow (1916–2003), Deputy National Security Advisor, January 1961 – December 1961; Director of Policy Planning at Department of State, December 1961 – March 1966; National Security Advisor, April 1966 – January 1969.
• Michael Forrestal (1927–1989), staff member of the National Security Council, 1962–1965.

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• J. William Fulbright (1905–1995), U.S. Senator from Arkansas, January 1945 – December 1974; Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1959–1974.
• Mike Mansfield (1903–2001), U.S. Senator from Montana, January 1953 – January 1977; Senate Majority Leader, January 1961 – January 1977.

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• Presidency of Richard Nixon: Foreign policy, January 1969 – August 1974.
• Henry Kissinger (b. 1973), National Security Advisor, January 1969 – November 1975; Secretary of State, September 1973 – January 1977.
• Melvin Laird (1922–2016), Secretary of Defense, January 1969 – January 1973.
• Vietnamization.
• Presidency of Gerald Ford: Foreign affairs, August 1974 – January 1977.

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Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (1972)

David Halberstam.
The Best and the Brightest.
New York: Ballantine Books (Random House), 1993.
First published: New York: Random House, 1972.

Book Information: Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.

David Halberstam, "The very expensive education of McGeorge Bundy," Harper's Magazine, July 1969.

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Author Information:

• David Halberstam (1934–2007), Wikipedia.
• I collected more information about David Halberstam in my post for his book The Fifties (1993).

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Video: David Halberstam

• David Halberstam and Stanley Karnow, "Vietnam: A Television History; Interview with David Halberstam, 1979 [part 1 of 5]," WGBH Media Library & Archives, 16 January 1979.
  [part 2 of 5]; [part 3 of 5]; [part 4 of 5]; [part 5 of 5].
• David Halberstam and Clete Roberts, "David Halberstam Talks About Vietnam," Vietnam Reconsidered: Lessons from the War conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, February 1983.
  • Clete Roberts (1912–1984), Wikipedia.
• David Halberstam and Ben Bradlee, "The Best and the Brightest," The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 25 January 2005.
  (The introductions end at time 13:30.)
  • Ben Bradlee (1921–2014), Wikipedia.
  • Max Frankel. High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Presidio Press (Random House), 2004.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• David Halberstam, "Vietnam War and the Presidency: Keynote Address," John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Boston, C-SPAN.org, 10 March 2006.
  • Another Video of this Talk, WGBH Forum, YouTube.
  • Event Information and Transcript, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.
  • Allen Weinstein, Marilyn B. Young, George C. Herring, Robert D. Schulzinger, "Vietnam and the Presidency - How We Got In: The United States, Asia, and Vietnam," John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, 10 March 2006.
    C-SPAN.org video.
    • Marilyn B. Young. The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.
      [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    • George C. Herring. America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975, Fifth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2013.
      [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    • Robert D. Schulzinger. A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
      [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Sharon K. Fawcett, David E. Kaiser, Timothy J. Naftali, Jeffrey P. Kimball, Vietnam and the Presidency - Vietnam and Presidential Tapes, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, 10 March 2006.
    C-SPAN.org video.
  • Caroline Kennedy, Brian Williams, Jimmy Carter, Vietnam and the Presidency - Introduction by Caroline Kennedy and Interview with President Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, 11 March 2006.
    C-SPAN.org video (time 0:00 - 36:00).
    • Jimmy Carter (b. 1924), Wikipedia.
    • Caroline Kennedy (b. 1957), Wikipedia.
    • Brian Williams (b. 1959), Wikipedia.
  • Ted Sorensen, Jack Valenti, Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, Brian Williams, Vietnam and the Presidency - Inside the White House, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, 11 March 2006.
    C-SPAN.org video (time 36:00 - 2:25:00).
    • Alexander Haig (1924–2010), Wikipedia.
    • Henry Kissinger (b. 1923), Wikipedia.
    • Ted Sorensen (1928–2010), Wikipedia.
    • Jack Valenti (1921–2007), Wikipedia.
  • Frances FitzGerald, Dan Rather, Stephen S. Bell, John Fisher Burns, Brian Williams, Vietnam and the Presidency - The Media and the Role of Public Opinion, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, 11 March 2006.
    C-SPAN.org video.
    • Frances FitzGerald (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
    • Dan Rather (b. 1931), Wikipedia.
    • Steve Bell (b. 1935), Wikipedia.
    • John Fisher Burns (b. 1944), Wikipedia.
    • Frances FitzGerald. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972.
      [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Wesley Clark, Chuck Hagel, Bob Herbert, Pete Peterson, Brian Williams, Vietnam and the Presidency - Lessons Learned, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, 11 March 2006.
    C-SPAN.org video.
    • Wesley Clark (b. 1944), Wikipedia.
    • Chuck Hagel (b. 1946), Wikipedia.
    • Bob Herbert (b. 1945), Wikipedia.
    • Pete Peterson (b. 1935), Wikipedia.

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Some videos I included in my post for Halberstam's The Fifties (1993) follow below:

• David Halberstam, David McCullough, George Will, Brian Lamb, "Political Historians' Roundtable," Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., C-SPAN.org, 22 June 1994.
  • Folger Shakespeare Library.
  • Henry Clay Folger (1857 – 1930), Wikipedia.
  • David Halberstam. The Fifties. New York: Villard Books (Random House), 1993.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • David McCullough. Truman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    My post on Truman is here.
  • George Will (b. 1941), Wikipedia.
  • George F. Will. Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy. New York: Free Press, 1992.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Cecil Woodham-Smith. The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade. London: Constable, 1953. London: Penguin Books, 1991.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• David Halberstam, "America: The Last 50 Years," George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, C-SPAN.org, 01 February 1995.
• David Halberstam and Susan Swain, "In Depth with David Halberstam," BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 04 November 2001.
• David Halberstam, "America Then and Now," Westminster Town Hall Forum, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 27 April 2006.
  • America Then and Now, Westminster Town Hall Forum, 27 April 2006.
  • Westminster Town Hall Forum.
• Orville Schell and Brian Lamb, "David Halberstam, 1934-2007," Washington Journal, C-SPAN.org, 27 April 2007.
  • Orville Schell (b. 1940), Wikipedia.

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Other Video:

• Vietnam: A Television History, WGBH, 1983.
  • Vietnam: A Television History, Wikipedia.
  • Search YouTube for: Vietnam A Television History.
  • Note that Vietnam: A Television History was originally broadcast in 1983 in 13 episodes. In 1997 a re-edited version of the series was broadcast as part of the PBS American Experience series in 11 episodes; episodes 2 ("The First Vietnam War") and 13 ("Legacies") of the original series were omitted from the 1997 version. I think one should preferentially view the 1983 version which was distributed on VHS tape.
  • Stanley Karnow (1925–2013). Vietnam: A History, Second Revised and Updated Edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Raw video of the interviews (often quite long and detailed), from which brief excerpts were used in the documentary, is available at WGBH Open Vault: The Vietnam Collection, WGBH Media Library & Archives.
    For example:
    • Henry Cabot Lodge, 01 January 1979;
    • Maxwell Taylor, 30 January 1979;
    • Edward Lansdale, 31 January 1979;
    • J. Lawton Collins, 29 April 1981;
    • Paul M. Kattenburg, 07 May 1981;
    • Roger Hilsman, 11 May 1981;
    • George W. Ball, 18 May 1981.

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Wikipedia Articles, etc.:

• Historical and Political Context
• United States Strategic Bombing Survey, report released on 30 September 1945.
• Origins of the Cold War.
• Cold War.
• History of United States foreign policy: Cold War: 1947–91.
• Harry S. Truman, "Special Message to the Congress on Greece and Turkey: The Truman Doctrine," March 12, 1947. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project.
• Truman Doctrine, March 1947.
• Chinese Civil War, 1927–1937 and 1946–1950.
• NSC 68, "United States Objectives and Programs for National Security," April 1950.
• NSC 68 [PDF], Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.
• Korean War, June 1950 – July 1953.
• First Indochina War, December 1946 – July 1954.
• McCarthyism.
• Decolonization.
• Decolonisation of Asia.
• Wars of national liberation.

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• Vietnam and Events
• History of Vietnam.
• French Indochina, 1887 – 1954.
• First Indochina War, December 1946 – July 1954.
• State of Vietnam, 1949–1955.
• Bảo Đại (1913–1997), head of state (Emperor), State of Vietnam, 1949–1955.
• Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969).
• Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911–2013).
• Việt Minh.
• North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam), 1945 – 1975.
• Phạm Văn Đồng (1906–2000), Prime Minister of North Vietnam, 1955–1976; Prime Minister of Vietnam, 1976–1987.
• Lê Duẩn (1907–1986), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, September 1960 – July 1986.
• Battle of Dien Bien Phu, March – May 1954.
• 1954 Geneva Conference, April – July 1954.
• 1954 in the Vietnam War, and articles for each succeeding year.
• Vietnam War Timeline, VietnamGear.com.
• Vietnam War, November 1955 – April 1975.
• South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam), 1955 – 1975.
• Ngo Dinh Diem (1901–1963), President of the Republic of Vietnam, October 1955 – November 1963.
• Ngô Đình Thục (1897–1984), Archbishop of Huế, Vietnam, brother of Ngo Dinh Diem.
• Ngô Đình Nhu (1910–1963), brother of Ngo Dinh Diem.
• Madame Nhu (1924–2011), wife of Ngô Đình Nhu.
• Ngô Đình Cẩn (1911–1964), brother of Ngo Dinh Diem.
• Viet Cong (National Liberation Front, NLF), founded December 1960.
• U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), created February 1962.
• Buddhist crisis, South Vietnam, May – November 1963.
• Cable 243, 24 August 1963.
• 1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état, November 1963.
• John Prados, "JFK and the Diem Coup," National Security Archive, 05 November 2003.
• Reaction to the 1963 South Vietnamese coup.
• Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (1908–1976), Prime Minister of South Vietnam, November 1963 – January 1964.
• Dương Văn Minh ("Big Minh") (1916–2001), Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, South Vietnam, November 1963 – January 1964.
• Nguyễn Khánh (1927–2013), Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, South Vietnam, January 1964 – February 1965.
• South Vietnam government of Thieu / Ky established in June 1965.
  • Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (1923–2001).
  • Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (1930–2011).
• Gulf of Tonkin incident, August 1964.
• Operation Pierce Arrow, U.S. response to Gulf of Tonkin incident, 05 August 1964.
• Bien Hoa Air Base: 1964 Mortar attack, 01 November 1964.
• 1964 Brinks Hotel bombing, Saigon, 24 December 1964.
• Viet Cong Attack on Camp Holloway, Pleiku, 6–7 February 1965.
• Operation Flaming Dart, U.S. response to attack at Pleiku, February 1965.
• 1965 Qui Nhơn hotel bombing, Viet Cuong Hotel in Qui Nhơn, 10 February 1965.
• Operation Rolling Thunder, began 02 March 1965.
• U.S. Marines arrive at Da Nang, 08 March 1965.
• "President Johnson's News Conference," MP550, LBJ Library, 28 July 1965.
• Battle of Ia Drang, November 1965.

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• United States in Vietnam
• Role of the United States in the Vietnam War.
• Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower: Foreign affairs, January 1953 – January 1961.
• J. Lawton Collins (1896–1987), Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, August 1949 – August 1953; U.S. Special Representative in Vietnam, November 1954 – May 1955; Collins lobbied for the removal of Diem during March–May 1955.
• Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), MAAG Indochina, 1950; reorganized with creation of MAAG Vietnam, 01 November 1955.
• Presidency of John F. Kennedy: Foreign affairs, January 1961 – November 1963.
• John F. Kennedy, "Inaugural Address," 20 January 1961.
  Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project.
• Foreign policy of the John F. Kennedy administration.
• John F. Kennedy, "Commencement Address at American University in Washington," 10 June 1963.
  Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project.
• Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson: Foreign affairs, November 1963 – January 1969.
• McGeorge Bundy (1919–1996), National Security Advisor, January 1961 – February 1966.
• Robert McNamara (1916–2009), Secretary of Defense, January 1961 – February 1968.
• Dean Rusk (1909–1994), Secretary of State, January 1961 – January 1969.
• Chester Bowles (1901–1986), Under Secretary of State, January – December 1961.
• George Ball (1909–1994), Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, February – December 1961; Under Secretary of State, December 1961 – September 1966.
• John McNaughton (1921–1967), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1964–1967.
• Frederick Nolting (1911–1989), U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, 1961–1963.
• Edward Lansdale (1908–1987), U.S. Air Force; CIA officer.
• Lucien Conein (1919–1998), U.S. Army; CIA officer.
• Walt Rostow (1916–2003), Deputy National Security Advisor, January 1961 – December 1961; Director of Policy Planning at Department of State, December 1961 – March 1966; National Security Advisor, April 1966 – January 1969.
• Maxwell D. Taylor (1901–1987), Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, October 1962 – July 1964; U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, July 1964 – July 1965.
• John A. McCone (1902–1991), Under Secretary of the Air Force, June 1950 – October 1951; Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, July 1958 – January 1961; Director of Central Intelligence, November 1961 – April 1965.
• Paul D. Harkins (1904–1984), Commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), 1962–1964.
• John Paul Vann (1924–1972), U.S. Army.
• Michael Forrestal (1927–1989), staff member of the National Security Council, 1962–1965.
• W. Averell Harriman (1891–1986), Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, December 1961 – April 1963; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, April 1963 – March 1965.
• William Bundy (1917–2000), Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, March 1964 – May 1969.
• Clark Clifford (1906–1998), White House Counsel, February 1946 – January 1950; Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, April 1963 – February 1968; Secretary of Defense, March 1968 – January 1969.
• Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902–1985), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, January 1947 – January 1953; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, January 1953 – September 1960; U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, August 1963 – June 1964 and August 1965 – April 1967.
• Roger Hilsman (1919–2014), Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (Department of State), February 1961 – April 1963; Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, May 1963 – March 1964.
• Paul Warnke (1920–2001), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1967 – 1969.
• Harry McPherson (1929–2012), White House Counsel, February 1966 – October 1967.
• Paul Nitze (1907–2004), Director of Policy Planning at Department of State, 1950–1953; Secretary of the Navy, November 1963 – June 1967; Deputy Secretary of Defense, July 1967 – January 1969.
• J. William Fulbright (1905–1995), U.S. Senator from Arkansas, January 1945 – December 1974; Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1959–1974.
• William Westmoreland (1914–2005), Commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), June 1964 – 1968.
• William E. DePuy (1919–1992), U.S. Army.
• Ellsworth Bunker (1894–1984), U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, April 1967 – May 1973.
• Nicholas Katzenbach (1922–2012), Attorney General, February 1965 – October 1966; Under Secretary of State, October 1966 – January 1969.
• Paul M. Kattenburg (1922–2004), State Department. [Obituary, The Washington Post.]

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• Presidency of Richard Nixon: Foreign policy, January 1969 – August 1974.

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In various ways The Best and the Brightest is a prequel to and a sequel to, but perhaps also the inverse or opposite of:

• Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986).

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