Landmark speeches on the Vietnam War
By: edited and with an introduction by Gregory Allen Olson
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Landmark speeches; Landmark speeches
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781603441643; 9781603441810
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: "Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam" / Ho Chi Minh (1945); title: "America's stake in Vietnam: the cornerstone of the free world in Southeast Asia" / John F. Kennedy (1956); title: "Interests and policies in Southeast Asia" / Michael J. Mansfield (1962); title: "Address at Johns Hopkins University: 'Peace without conquest'" / Lyndon B. Johnson (1965); title: "Speech to the march on Washington to end the war in Vietnam" / Paul Potter (1965); title: "Vietnam analysis-present and future" / George Aiken (1966); title: "On Viet Nam" / Robert F. Kennedy (1967); title: "Beyond Vietnam" / Martin Luther King, Jr. (1967); title: "Vietnam: the situation today" / Gen. William C. Westmoreland (1967); title: "We are mired in stalemate" / Walter Cronkite (1968); title: "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 ); title: "Address to the nation on the war in Vietnam" / Richard M. Nixon (1969); title: "Address to the nation on the situation in Southeast Asia" / Richard M. Nixon (1970); title: "Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee" / John Kerry (1971).