Kennedy's War. Senator John F. Kennedy on America's Stake in Vietnam ; "The Path of Revolution in the South" ; President Ngo Dinh Diem: Address to US Congress ; Memo from Ambassador Durbrow to Diem ; Notes on a National Security Council Meeting ; Letter from JFK to Diem ; Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield on US Policy in Southeast Asia ; On the Prospects of a "Generals' Coup" ; Televised Interview with President Kennedy ; Ambassador Lodge on the Worsening Situation
Johnson's War. CIA Memo on National Liberation Front Methods ; The Gulf of Tonkin Incident ; A New Approach to Retaliation ; LBJ: "Peace Without Conquest" ; Meeting Between the President and His Advisors ; "Why We Are in Vietnam" ; A Recommendation for Troop Increases ; General Westmoreland on Military Operations ; "No Attractive Course of Action" ; The Tet Offensive: A CIA Assessment ; The President and His Advisors Review the Situation ; Testimony Regarding the My Lai Massacre ; President Johnson on Limiting the War
The Antiwar Movement. Call for A March on Washington ; Protest Speech by Paul Potter ; Message from Ho Chi Minh ; Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Beyond Vietnam" ; An Antidraft Call to Action ; An Unwinnable War ; "We Are Mired in Stalemate" ; Weathermen Manifesto ; George McGovern Urges an End to the War ; Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest, with Response from President Nixon ; John Kerry's Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nixon's War. Conversation Between Presidents Nixon and Thiêu ; Henry Kissinger to Nixon ; Nixon on the "Silent Majority" and "Vietnamization" ; Nixon on Operations in Cambodia ; Taped Conversation between Nixon and Kissinger ; President Nixon to President Thiêu ; The Paris Peace Accords
Aftermath. Plea for Emergency Aid for Saigon ; Pardon of Draft Evaders ; The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Appendixes. Chronological List ; Web Resources ; Bibliography ; Index.