The National Security Council compiled these series of histories based on top-secret documents covering the major developments in Vietnam from 1964 through 1968. This collection offers large amounts of material from the upper levels of the executive branch, including:
White House Situation Room reports
Papers of the Vietnam Advisory Group
Daily, weekly, and special reports from General Westmoreland
Reports and briefings from U.S. ambassadors to Vietnam
Messages between United States military headquarters and troop commanders throughout Vietnam
Communications of the President with Vietnamese leaders
Location
Library Annex Cabinets DS 557.4 V5
Format
Microfilm
Arrangement
In five main divisions:
reel 1: presidential decisions on the Gulf of Tonkin attacks of August 1964
reels 2-3: deployment of major U.S. forces to Vietenam in July 1965
reel 4: Honolulu Conference, February 6-8, 1966
reel 5: Manila Conference and president's Asian trips, October 17 - November 2, 1966
reels 6-8: President Lyndon Johnson's speech of March 31, 1968.
Significant memos and messages to the president are included in each section.
Items
8 reels
Publication
University Publications of America (UPA Lexis Nexis), 1981?
Guide to the War in Vietnam: Classified Histories by the National Security Council