viii List of Reference Entries and Documents
THE DIEM YEARS
Reference Entries
Ap Bac, Battle of
Bao Dai
Binh Xuyen
Can Lao Nhan Vi Cach Mang Dang
Cao Dai
Domino Theory
Duong Van Minh
Hilsman-Forrestal Report
Hoa Hao
Lansdale, Edward Geary
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.
Military Assistance Command,
Vietnam
National Front for the Liberation of South
Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ngo Dinh Diem, Overthrow of
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Ngo Dinh Nhu, Madame
Nolting, Frederick Earnest, Jr.
passage to
freedom, Operation
Strategic Hamlet Program
Taylor, Maxwell Davenport
Taylor-McNamara Report
Taylor-Rostow Mission
Thich Quang Duc
United States, Involvement in Vietnam,
1954–1965
Documents
• President Dwight Eisenhower: Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem, October 23, 1954
• Manifesto of the National Liberation Front, December 1960
• National Security Action Memorandum No. 80, August 29, 1961
• Report of the McNamara-Taylor Mission to South Vietnam, October 2, 1963 [Excerpt]
• Phone Conversation between Ngo Dinh Diem and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Novem-
ber 1, 1963 [Excerpt]
THE GULF OF TONKIN AND ESCALATION
Reference Entries
Ball, George Wildman
Bundy, McGeorge
Bundy, William Putnam
DeSoto Missions
Elections, U.S., 1964
Five O’Clock Follies
flaming dart i
and ii, Operations
Goldwater, Barry Morris
Great Society Program
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Johnson, Lyndon Baines
McNamara, Robert Strange
pierce
arrow, Operation
rolling
thunder, Operation
Rusk, David Dean
Westmoreland, William Childs
Wheeler, Earle Gilmore
Documents
• Joint Chiefs of Staff: Memorandum 46–64, January 22, 1964
• President Lyndon Johnson’s Message to Congress, August 5, 1964 [Excerpts]
• Joint Resolution of Congress H.J. RES 1445: Tonkin Gulf Resolution, August 7, 1964
[Excerpt]
• Robert S. McNamara Recommends Escalation, July 1, 1965 [Excerpts]
