Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1996 Jun 3 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
35pp
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of interview with Daniel Ellsberg, RAND Corporation, 1959-1964 and 1967-1970, US Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1964-1965, Senior Liaison Officer, US Embassy, Saigon, South Vietnam, 1965-1967, and Senior Research Associate, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1970-1972, relating to US policy on involvement in Vietnam 1961-1975, including misleading of US Congress to gain support for the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, 7 Au 1964; Ellsberg's commission to develop secret plans for US withdrawal from the Vietnam conflict, 1964; Vietnamese views of the essential unity of their country; escalation of numbers of US troops in Vietnam under US President Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969; US failure to learn from the French experience in Vietnamese war of independence 1946-1954; impact on Ellsberg of his visit to Vietnam 1965-1967; US fears of Chinese intervention in Vietnam; effect of the Tet offensive on US confidence of success in Vietnam, 1968; continued escalation of US involvement in Vietnam under Richard Nixon, US President 1969-1974; the impact of Watergate scandal, 1972-1974, and Nixon's resignation, 8 Aug 1974, on the end of the war; US Congress cutting of funding to Vietnam operations, 1973; and the effectiveness of the US anti-war movement. 35pp
General Information
Name of creator
Repository
Language of material
Script of material
Existence and location of originals
Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›