The Arrogance of Power

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Charles de Gaulle: France's Attitude Toward US Policy in Vietnam, 1964

President Johnson's Address to Congress, The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, August 5, 1964

Excerpts from McGeorge Bundy's Memo to President Johnson, February 7,1965

"Aggression From the North," State Department White Paper on Vietnam, February 27, 1965

Excerpts from Speech Given by President Johnson at Johns Hopkins University, April 7,1965

Dean Rusk "American Foreign Policy and International Law" South Vietnam's Right of Self Defense, April 23, 1965

Paper by the Under Secretary of State George Ball, "Cutting Our Losses in South Viet-Nam," June 1965

Memorandum From Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to President Johnson on the Subject of a Program of Expanded Military and Political Moves with Respect to Vietnam, July 1, 1965

Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's Memo to President Johnson, July 20,1965

Thu Vao Nam [Letters to the South] 1965

Senator William Fulbright, Appraisal of US Policy in the Dominican Crisis, September 15, 1965

Letter of Ho Chi Minh to Lyndon Johnson, February 15, 1967

Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's "Mutual Deterrence" Speech, September 18, 1967 

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968)

Brezhnev Doctrine (1968)