Office of the Historian

Persons

  • Acheson, Dean, Secretary of State, 1949–1953
  • Akalovsky, Alexander, Political Officer at the Embassy in the Soviet Union
  • Albert, Carl, Representative (D-Oklahoma), House Majority Leader
  • Alsop, Joseph W., journalist, author, and syndicated columnist
  • Arends, Leslie C., Representative (R-Illinois), House Minority Whip
  • Armstrong, Oscar Vance, Consul in Hong Kong until August 1966
  • Ayub Khan, Field Marshal Muhammad, President of Pakistan
  • Baldwin, Hanson W., author and Military Editor for The New York Times
  • Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State until September 30, 1966
  • Bates, William H., Representative (R-Massachusetts), ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee
  • Bell, David E., Administrator of the Agency for International Development until July 1966
  • Black, Eugene, Special Adviser to the President for Southeast Asia
  • Blouin, Rear Admiral F. J., USN, Far East Region, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Boggs, Hale, Representative (D-Louisiana)
  • Bohlen, Charles E., Ambassador to France
  • Bolton, Frances P., Representative (R-Ohio), ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee
  • Bow, Frank T., Representative (R-Ohio), ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee
  • Bowles, Chester, Ambassador to India
  • Bradley, General Omar N., USA, Ret., former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Brown, George, British Foreign Minister from August 10, 1966
  • Bruce, David K. E., Ambassador to the United Kingdom
  • Bui Diem, Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister and then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Ambassador to the United States from December 1966
  • Bundy, McGeorge, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs until February 28, 1966
  • Bundy, William P., Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (retitled Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs on November 1, 1966)
  • Byrnes, James F., Secretary of State, 1945–1947
  • Byroade, Henry A., Ambassador to Burma
  • Califano, Joseph A., Jr., Special Assistant to the President
  • Cao, see Huynh Van Cao
  • Cao Van Vien, General, ARVN, Chief of the Joint General Staff
  • Carver, George, member of the Vietnamese Affairs Staff, Central Intelligence Agency, until late September 1966; thereafter Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Castello Branco, General Humberto de Alencar, President of Brazil
  • Christian, George, Press Secretary to the President from February 1, 1967
  • Chuan, see Nguyen Van Chuan
  • Church, Frank, Senator (D-Idaho)
  • Clifford, Clark M., lawyer and one of the “Wise Men” who served as unofficial advisers to President Johnson
  • Co, see Nguyen Huu Co
  • Colby, William E., Chief, Far East Division, Directorate of Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Cooper, Chester, member of the National Security Council Staff until April 1966; Special Assistant to Ambassador at Large W. Averell Harriman from September 1966
  • Couve de Murville, Maurice, French Foreign Minister
  • Dang Van Quang, General, ARVN, Commander of IV Corps until November 1966
  • De Gaulle, Charles, President of France
  • Dean, Arthur, lawyer and one of the “Wise Men” who served as unofficial advisers to President Johnson
  • Dean, Sir Patrick, British Ambassador to the United States
  • Denney, George C., Jr., Deputy Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • Diaz Ordaz, Gustavo, President of Mexico
  • Dirksen, Everett McKinley, Senator (R-Illinois), Senate Minority Leader
  • Do, see Tran Van Do
  • Dobrynin, Anatoly F., Soviet Ambassador to the United States
  • DʼOrlandi, Giovanni, Italian Ambassador to Vietnam
  • Douglas, Paul H., Senator (D-Illinois)
  • Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence from 1953 to 1961
  • Emrick, Lieutenant General Paul S., USAF, Chief of Staff, Pacific Command
  • Fanfani, Amintore, Italian Foreign Minister
  • Fenoaltea, Sergio, Italian Ambassador to the United States
  • Ford, Gerald R., Representative (R-Michigan), House Minority Leader
  • Fortas, Abe, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and unofficial adviser to President Johnson
  • Fowler, Henry H., Secretary of the Treasury
  • Franco y Bahamonde, General Francisco, Spanish Prime Minister and Chief of State
  • Freeman, Orville H., Secretary of Agriculture
  • Fulbright, J. William, Senator (D-Arkansas), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Gandhi, Indira, Indian Prime Minister from January 24, 1966
  • Gardner, John W., Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
  • Gaud, William S., Deputy Administrator of the Agency for International Development until August 1, 1966; thereafter Administrator
  • Gavin, Lieutenant General James M., USA, Ret., author of War and Peace in the Space Age and former Ambassador to France
  • George, see Sturm, Paul
  • Giap, see Vo Nguyen Giap
  • Ginsburgh, Colonel Robert, member of the National Security Council Staff from summer 1966
  • Gleysteen, Culver, Political Officer at the Embassy in France until September 1966
  • Goldberg, Arthur J., Representative to the United Nations
  • Gonard, Samuel, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross
  • Goodpaster, Lieutenant General Andrew J., USA, Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to July 31, 1966; Director of the Joint Staff from August 1, 1966
  • Gore, Albert, Senator (D-Tennessee)
  • Greene, General Wallace M., Jr., USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps
  • Gromyko, Andrei A., Soviet Foreign Minister
  • Gronouski, John A., Ambassador to Poland
  • Gullion, Edmund, unofficial U.S. envoy (“X”) in the XYZ negotiations with Mai Van Bo
  • Habib, Philip C., Political Officer at the Embassy in Vietnam
  • Hammarskjold, Dag, former Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Harkins, General Paul D., Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, 1962–1964
  • Harriman, W. Averell, Ambassador at Large
  • Hayden, Carl, Senator (D-Arizona), President Pro Tempore and Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee
  • Helble, John J., Vietnam Working Group, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • Helms, Richard M., Deputy Director of Central Intelligence until June 30, 1966; thereafter Director of Central Intelligence
  • Hickenlooper, Bourke B., Senator (R-Idaho)
  • Hoang Xuan Lam, General, ARVN, Commander of I Corps from May 1966
  • Ho Chi Minh, President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • Ho Giac, Buddhist leader and orator
  • Holt, Harold, Australian Prime Minister from January 26, 1966
  • Holyoake, Keith, Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • Hoopes, Townsend W., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Hornig, Donald F., Special Assistant to the President
  • Hughes, Thomas L., Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • Humphrey, Hubert H., Vice President of the United States
  • Huynh Van Cao, General, ARVN, Commander of I Corps from mid-May to late May 1966
  • Janczewski, Zbigniew, Polish Foreign Ministry official
  • Javits, Jacob K., Senator (R-New York)
  • Jean, see Vo Van Sung
  • Jenkins, Walter E., Jr., Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy in Poland from July 1966
  • Johnson, General Harold K., USA, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
  • Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States
  • Johnson, U. Alexis, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until October 9, 1966; Ambassador to Japan from November 8, 1966
  • Jorden, William J., member of the National Security Council Staff from May 1966
  • Katzenbach, Nicholas deB., Attorney General until September 1966; Under Secretary of State from October 3, 1966
  • Kennan, George F., author and former Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia
  • Kennedy, John F., President of United States, January 20, 1961–November 22, 1963
  • Kennedy, Robert F., Senator (D-New York)
  • Keppel, Francis, Assistant Secretary for Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare until April 1966
  • Khanh, see Nguyen Khanh
  • Kissinger, Henry, professor of Government at Harvard University and Consultant to the Department of State
  • Kistiakowsky, George B., professor of Chemistry at Harvard University and Vice President of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Kohler, Foy D., Ambassador to the Soviet Union until November 14, 1966; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from November 29, 1966
  • Komer, Robert W., Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs until March 28, 1966; thereafter Special Assistant to the President; Acting Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs during March 1966
  • Koren, Henry L. T., Deputy to Deputy Ambassador Porter from July 1966
  • Kosygin, Alexei N, Soviet Premier
  • Kraft, Joseph, journalist, author, and syndicated columnist
  • Krulak, Lieutenant General Victor H., USMC, Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific
  • Kuchel, Thomas H., Senator (R-California)
  • Ky, see Nguyen Cao Ky
  • Lam, see Hoang Xuan Lam
  • Lansdale, Edward G., Special Assistant to Ambassador Lodge
  • Leoni, Raul, President of Venezuela
  • Leonhart, William K., Deputy to Robert W. Komer from March 28, 1966
  • Le Van Truong (code named “Mr. Out”), Vietnamese proponent of Cochinchinese autonomy residing in Europe in 1966
  • Lewandowski, Januscz, Polish Representative to the International Control Commission
  • Lippmann, Walter, author and journalist
  • Loan, see Nguyen Ngoc Loan
  • Lodge, Henry Cabot, Ambassador to Vietnam
  • Long, Russell B., Senator (D-Louisiana), Senate Majority Whip
  • Lovett, Robert A., banker and one of the “Wise Men” who served as unofficial advisers to President Johnson
  • Lynd, Staughton, history professor at Yale University
  • Lucet, Charles E., French Ambassador to the United States
  • Mahon, George H., Representative (D-Texas), Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee
  • Mai Van Bo (code named “Rupert”), Commercial Representative in Paris of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • Manacʼh, Etienne, Director of Asian Affairs, French Foreign Ministry
  • Mann, Charles A., Director of the USAID Mission in Vietnam until August 1966
  • Mansfield, Mike, Senator (D-Montana), Senate Majority Leader
  • Marcos, Ferdinand, President of the Philippines
  • Marks, Leonard H., Director of the United States Information Agency
  • Martin, Graham A., Ambassador to Thailand
  • Martin, Paul J., Canadian Foreign Minister
  • McBride, Robert H., Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy in France
  • McCafferty, Arthur, Supervisor of White House Situation Room
  • McCarthy, Eugene J., Senator (D-Minnesota)
  • McCloy, John J., lawyer and one of the “Wise Men” who served as unofficial advisers to President Johnson
  • McConaughy, Walter P., Ambassador to Pakistan until May 17, 1966
  • McConnell, General John P., Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force
  • McCormack, John W., Representative (D-Massachusetts), Speaker of the House
  • McDonald, Admiral David L., Chief of Naval Operations
  • McGovern, George S., Senator (D-South Dakota)
  • McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense
  • McNaughton, John T., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • McPherson, Harry C., Jr., Special Counsel to the President
  • Meeker, Leonard C., Legal Adviser to the Department of State
  • Menzies, Robert G., Australian Prime Minister until January 26, 1966
  • Michalowski, Jerzy, Director-General, Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Miller, Robert H., Director, Vietnam Working Group, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • Molotov, Vyacheslav M., Soviet Foreign Minister, 1946–1949
  • Morgan, Thomas E., Representative (D-Pennsylvania), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
  • Morse, Wayne, Senator (D-Oregon)
  • Moyers, Bill D., Special Assistant and Press Secretary to the President
  • Mundt, Karl E., Senator (R-South Dakota)
  • Nasser, Gamal Abdel, President of the United Arab Republic
  • Nehru, B. K., Indian Ambassador to the United States
  • Nguyen Cao Ky, Air Vice Marshal, VNAF, Vietnamese Premier
  • Nguyen Chanh Thi, General, ARVN, Commander of I Corps until March 10, 1966
  • Nguyen Chi Thanh, General, Head of the Central Office for South Vietnam, the headquarters for North Vietnamese control of Vietcong forces
  • Nguyen Duc Thang, General, ARVN, Vietnamese Minister of Rural Construction/Revolutionary Development
  • Nguyen Huu An, Permanent Secretary of the Vietnamese Red Cross (code named Uncle in the Thrush contacts)
  • Nguyen Huu Co, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister
  • Nguyen Huu Tho, Chairman of the Central Committee of the National Liberation Front
  • Nguyen Khanh, former Vietnamese Premier and intermediary in the Elmtree contacts with Le Van Truong
  • Nguyen Ngoc Loan, Colonel, Director of the Vietnamese Military Security Service; Director General of the National Police from April 1966
  • Nguyen Van Chuan, General, ARVN, Commander of I Corps, March-April 1966
  • Nguyen Van Thieu, General, ARVN, Vietnamese Chief of State
  • Nhuan, see Pham Xuan Nhuan
  • Nilsson, Torsten, Swedish Foreign Minister
  • Nkrumah, Kwame, President of Ghana until February 24, 1966
  • Out, see Le Van Truong
  • Owen, Henry D., Chairman of the Policy Planning Council, Department of State, from June 19, 1966
  • Park, Chung Hee, President of Korea
  • Pearson, Lester, Canadian Prime Minister
  • Pell, Claiborne, Senator (D-Rhode Island)
  • Pham Van Dong, Premier of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • Pham Xuan Nhuan, General, ARVN, Commander of the 1st Infantry Division from March to June 1966
  • Phan Huy Quat, Vietnamese Premier, February 16–June 11, 1965
  • Pike, Douglas E., Attache and Assistant Chief of the Planning Division at the Embassy in Vietnam
  • Poats, Rutherford, Assistant Administrator for the Far East, Agency for International Development
  • Pompidou, Georges, French Premier
  • Porter, William J., Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam
  • Quang, see Dang Van Quang
  • Quat, see Phan Huy Quat
  • Raborn, Vice Admiral William F., Jr., USN, Ret., Director of Central Intelligence until June 30, 1966
  • Rapacki, Adam, Polish Foreign Minister
  • Read, Benjamin H., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary of the Department
  • Reedy, George E., Special Assistant and Press Secretary to the President until July 8, 1965
  • Reischauer, Edwin O., Ambassador to Japan until August 19, 1966
  • Reston, James B., journalist and Associate Editor,The New York Times
  • Ridgway, General Matthew B., USA, Ret., Army Chief of Staff, 1953–1955
  • Rivers, L. Mendel, Representative (D-South Carolina), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee
  • Roche, John P., Special Consultant to the President from September 8, 1966
  • Ronning, Chester, retired Canadian Foreign Service officer who met with North Vietnamese leaders in March and June 1966
  • Ropa, Donald W., member of the National Security Council Staff
  • Rostow, Eugene V., Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from October 14, 1966
  • Rostow, Walt W., Counselor of the Department of State and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council until March 31, 1966; thereafter Special Assistant to the President
  • Rupert, see Mai Van Bo,
  • Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State
  • Russell, Richard B., Senator (D-Georgia), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee
  • Sainteny, Jean, former French colonial official in Indochina who met with North Vietnamese leaders in July 1966
  • Saltonstall, Leverett, Senator (R-Massachusetts)
  • Sato, Eisaku, Japanese Prime Minister
  • Sharp, Admiral Ulysses S. Grant, USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific
  • Shastri, Lal Bahadur, Indian Prime Minister until January 10, 1966
  • Shelepin, Alexandr N., Secretary of the Central Committee, Soviet Communist Party
  • Shiina, Etsusaburo, Japanese Foreign Minster until December 3, 1966
  • Sieverts, Frank, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State from March 1966
  • Smathers, George A., Senator (D-Florida)
  • Smith, Bromley K., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
  • Sorensen, Theodore, Special Counsel to President Kennedy and Special Counsel to President Johnson until February 1964
  • Souvanna Phouma, Prince, Laotian Prime Minister
  • Sparkman, John J., Senator (D-Alabama)
  • Springsteen, George S., Jr., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State until September 1966
  • Starbird, Lieutenant General Alfred D., USA, Director, Defense Communications Agency
  • Steadman, John M., Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense and to the Deputy Secretary of Defense
  • Stearns, Monteagle, Special Assistant to Ambassador at Large W. Averell Harriman
  • Stewart, Michael, British Foreign Minster until August 10, 1966
  • Stewart, Michael N.F., Minister, British Embassy in Washington
  • Sturm, Paul, unofficial U.S. envoy (“Y”) in the XYZ negotiations with Mai Van Bo and Vo Van Sung; unofficial U.S. envoy (“George”) in the Elmtree contacts with Le Van Truong
  • Sullivan, William H., Ambassador to Laos
  • Symington, Stuart, Senator (D-Missouri)
  • Tam Chau, leader of Buddhists in Saigon
  • Tam Giac, Buddhist leader
  • Taylor, General Maxwell D., USA, Ret., Special Consultant to the President
  • Thai, see Vu Van Thai
  • Thanat Khoman, Colonel, Thai Foreign Minister
  • Thanom Kittikachorn, Field Marshal, Thai Prime Minister and Defense Minister
  • Thang, see Nguyen Duc Thang
  • Thant, U, Secretary General of the United Nations
  • Thi, see Nguyen Chanh Thi
  • Thien Minh, Buddhist leader
  • Thieu, see Nguyen Van Thieu
  • Tho, see Nguyen Huu Tho
  • Thompson, Llewellyn E., Jr., Ambassador at Large until December 26, 1966
  • Thomsen, Samuel B., Principal Officer at the Consulate in Hue until August 1966
  • Thomson, James C., Jr., member of the National Security Council Staff until September 1966
  • Tran Quoc Buu, Vietnamese labor leader
  • Tran Van Do, Vietnamese Foreign Minister
  • Tri Quang, Buddhist leader and key figure in the direction of the Struggle Forces
  • Tubby, Roger W., Representative-designate to the European Office of the United Nations
  • Unger, Leonard S., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
  • Valenti, Jack, Special Assistant to the President until May 15, 1966
  • Vance, Cyrus R., Deputy Secretary of Defense
  • Vien, see Cao Van Vien
  • Vinh Loc, General, ARVN, Commander of II Corps
  • Vo Nguyen Giap, General, PAVN, Minister of National Defense, Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • Vo Van Sung (code named Jean), Deputy to Mai Van Bo
  • Vu Van Thai, Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States
  • Walt, Lieutenant General Lewis W., Commander of the U.S. III Marine Amphibious Force and I Corps Senior Adviser
  • Wehrle, Leroy S., Associate Director and Economic Counselor, USAID Mission in Vietnam
  • Westmoreland, General William C., USA, Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
  • Wheeler, General Earle G., USA, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Williams, G. Mennen, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until March 23, 1966
  • Wilson, Harold, British Prime Minister
  • Wilson, Samuel V., Saigon Mission Coordinator
  • X, see Gullion, Edmund
  • Y, see Paul Sturm
  • Zorthian, Barry, Minister-Counselor for Information at the Embassy in Vietnam and head of the Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office