Item COLD WAR 27/48 - Transcript of interview with foreign policy adviser Morton Halperin, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Morton H Halperin, Deputy Assistant Secretary, US Department of Defense, Washington DC, USA, 1966-1969, Senior Staff Member, US National Security Council, 1969, and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 1969-1973, relating to the US involvement in the Vietnam conflict, 1961-1975, including US reaction to the North Vietnamese Tet offensive, 1967-1968; the character of US public opposition to involvement in Vietnam, 1968; US President Richard Nixon's plans for withdrawal of US forces from Vietnam; US President Gerald Ford's support for withdrawal of US forces from Vietnam, 1974; US public reaction to the fall of Saigon, 1975; US support for French during the French Indochina War 1946-1954; failure of successive US administrations to learn from the past concerning Vietnamese political aspirations; deployment of 50000 US troops in Vietnam and percentage of this number engaged in actual fighting; and the lack of an overall US strategy for Vietnam operations. 17pp