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America's Longest War, 4/e
George Herring, University of Kentucky-Lexington
Enough, but Not Too Much: Johnson's Decisions for War, 1963-1965

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National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 273
(http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/NSAMs/nsam273.asp)

View the National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 273, which laid out American policy in Vietnam shortly after Lyndon Johnson became President.
President's Message To Congress, August 5, 1964
(http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/tonkinsp.htm)

See President Lyndon Johnson's August 5, 1964, message to Congress regarding the Tonkin Gulf Incident.
New Light on Gulf of Tonkin
(http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/54/106.html)

A detailed assessment of whether a second North Vietnamese attack occurred during the Tonkin Gulf Incident.
Map of the Ho Chi Minh Trail
(http://www.vwam.com/vets/tet/tetmap.htm)

Battlefield:Vietnam
(http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/air/index.html)

More information about the strategies and aircraft used in Rolling Thunder.
State Department White Paper On Vietnam
(http://www.vietnamwar.com/WhitePaperonVietnam.htm)

The State Department's February 27, 1965, White Paper that argued that the guerrilla war in South Vietnam was the product of aggression form North Vietnam.
A transcript of President Johnson's April 7, 1965, speech at Johns Hopkins University
(http://vietnam.vassar.edu/doc12.html)

Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara's Memo to President Johnson
(http://vietnam.vassar.edu/doc13.html)

McNamara's July 20, 1965, memorandum detailing the number of troops he believed the U.S. needed to deploy to South Vietnam.
Foreign Relations of The United States 1964-1968, Vietnam
(http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/vol_iii/index.html)

A highly detailed treatment of the decisions that led to direct American involvement in the war, the State Department's official record.








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