Landmark speeches on the Vietnam War

Summary: The fourteen key speeches collected in this volume trace both the evolution of U.S. policy and its contestation.

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General Note:	Multi-User OldControl:muse9781603443500 Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	"Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam" / Ho Chi Minh (1945) -- "America's stake in Vietnam: the cornerstone of the free world in Southeast Asia" / John F. Kennedy (1956) -- "Interests and policies in Southeast Asia" / Michael J. Mansfield (1962) -- "Address at Johns Hopkins University: 'Peace without conquest'" / Lyndon B. Johnson (1965) -- "Speech to the march on Washington to end the war in Vietnam" / Paul Potter (1965) -- "Vietnam analysis-present and future" / George Aiken (1966) -- "On Viet Nam" / Robert F. Kennedy (1967) -- "Beyond Vietnam" / Martin Luther King, Jr. (1967) -- "Vietnam: the situation today" / Gen. William C. Westmoreland (1967) -- "We are mired in stalemate" / Walter Cronkite (1968) -- "The President's address to the nation announcing steps to limit the war in Vietnam and reporting his decision not to seek reelection / Lyndon B. Johnson (1968) -- "Address to the nation on the war in Vietnam" / Richard M. Nixon (1969) -- "Address to the nation on the situation in Southeast Asia" / Richard M. Nixon (1970) -- "Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee" / John Kerry (1971).
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