Names

  • Abrams, General Creighton, Deputy Commander, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam to July 1968; thereafter Commander
  • Acheson, Dean, Secretary of State, 1949–1953, and informal adviser to the President
  • Agnew, Spiro, Governor of Maryland and Vice Presidential nominee of the Republican Party
  • Aiken, George, Senator (Republican-Vermont)
  • Albert, Carl, Representative (Democrat-Oklahoma)
  • Algard, Ole, Norwegian Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China
  • Allen, George, Deputy Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Ashmore, Harry, Executive Director, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
  • Ayub Khan, Mohammad, President of Pakistan
  • Ball, George, Representative to the United Nations after May 14, 1968
  • Baggs, William, Director, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
  • Battle, Lucius D., Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
  • Berger, Samuel R., Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam after March 1968
  • Bogdan, Cornelieu, Romanian Ambassador to the United States
  • Boggs, Hale, Representative (Democrat-Louisiana)
  • Bogomolov, Sergei, First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Paris
  • Bohlen, Charles, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Bowles, Chester, Ambassador to India
  • Bradley, Omar, General (ret.), informal adviser to the President
  • Brezhnev, Leonid, Chairman, Soviet Communist Party
  • Brooke, Edward, Senator (Republican-Massachusetts)
  • Brown, Harold, Secretary of the Air Force
  • Bruce, David K.E., Ambassador to the United Kingdom
  • Bui Diem, Republic of Vietnam Ambassador to the United States
  • Bundy, McGeorge, President, Ford Foundation, and informal adviser to the President
  • Bundy, William P., Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
  • Bunker, Ellsworth, Ambassador to Vietnam
  • Busby, Horace, former Special Assistant to the President
  • Byrd, Robert, Senator (Democrat-West Virginia)
  • Calhoun, John A., Political Officer at the Embassy in Saigon
  • Califano, Joseph, Special Assistant to the President
  • Cao Van Vien, Chairman, Joint General Staff, Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces
  • Carver, George A., Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs to the Director of Central Intelligence
  • Ceausescu, Nicolae, President of the State Council of Romania
  • Celac, Sergiu, Third Secretary of the Romanian Embassy in Washington
  • Chan, see Nguyen Chan
  • Chernyakov, Yuri, Chargé d’Affaires of the Soviet Embassy in Washington
  • Christian, George A., Special Assistant to the President and White House Press Secretary
  • Clifford, Clark M., Secretary of Defense after March 1, 1968
  • Colby, William, Deputy Director, Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support
  • Collingwood, Charles, correspondent, Columbia Broadcasting System
  • Cushman, General Leonard F., Commandant of the Marine Corps
  • Daley, Richard, Mayor of Chicago
  • Daniel, Price, Director, Office of Emergency Planning
  • Dang Duc Khoi, Special Assistant to the Vice President, Republic of Vietnam
  • Davidson, Daniel I., Special Assistant to the Ambassador at Large and member, U.S. Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Davis, Nathaniel, Member, National Security Council Staff
  • Dean, Arthur, retired diplomat and informal adviser to the President
  • De Gaulle, Charles, President of France
  • Denney, George, Deputy Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • DePuy, Major General William, Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Dillon, C. Douglas, former Secretary of the Treasury and member of the unofficial “Wise Men” Group
  • Dirksen, Everett, Senator (Republican-Illinois)
  • Dobrynin, Anatoliy, Soviet Ambassador to the United States
  • Dodd, Thomas, Senator (Democrat-Connecticut)
  • D’Orlandi, Giovanni, Italian Ambassador to the United States
  • Douglas, Paul, Senator (Democrat-Illinois)
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D., President, 1953–1961
  • Elsey, George M., Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
  • Enthoven, Alain, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis
  • Fanfani, Amintore, Italian Foreign Minister
  • Finch, Robert, Lieutenant-Governor of California and adviser to Presidential candidate Richard Nixon
  • Floweree, Charles C., Staff Member, Vietnam Working Group, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
  • Ford, Gerald R., Representative (Republican-Michigan)
  • Fortas, Abe, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
  • Fowler, Henry (Hugh), Secretary of the Treasury
  • Freeman, Orville, Secretary of Agriculture
  • Fulbright, J. William, Senator (Democrat-Arkansas)
  • Gandhi, Indira, Indian Prime Minister
  • Gelb, Leslie, Analyst, Bureau of International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
  • Ginsburgh, Robert N., member, National Security Council Staff
  • Goldberg, Arthur J., Representative to the United Nations to June 24, 1968
  • Goodpaster, General Andrew, Director, Joint Staff, to April 1968; Member, U.S. Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks, April–July 1968; thereafter Deputy Commander, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
  • Gore, Albert, Senator (Democrat-Tennessee)
  • Gorton, John, Australian Prime Minister
  • Goulding, Phil G., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
  • Gromyko, Andrei, Soviet Foreign Minister
  • Gronouski, John, Ambassador to Poland to May 26, 1968
  • Ha Van Lau, Deputy Chief, North Vietnamese Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Habib, Philip C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and Member, U.S. Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Halperin, Morton, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Hardesty, Robert, Assistant to the President
  • Harkins, General Paul, Commander, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, 1962–1964
  • Harlow, Bryce, adviser to the Nixon Presidential campaign
  • Harriman, W. Averell, Ambassador at large; Head, U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Helms, Richard R., Director of Central Intelligence
  • Herz, Martin F., Country Director, Cambodia and Laos, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
  • Hickenlooper, Bourke, Senator (Republican–Iowa)
  • Ho Chi Minh, President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • Holbrooke, Richard C., Staff Member, U.S. Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Holdridge, John, Deputy Director, Office of Research and Analysis for East Asia and the Pacific, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • Hollings, Ernest, Senator (Democrat-South Carolina)
  • Hoopes, Townsend, Under Secretary of the Air Force
  • Hughes, Thomas, Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • Humphrey, Hubert H., Vice President
  • Hurwitch, Robert, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy in Vientiane
  • Ignatius, Paul, Secretary of the Navy
  • Iliescu, Marin, First Secretary of the Romanian Embassy in Washington
  • Jackson, Henry, Senator (Democrat-Washington)
  • Johnson, General Harold K., Army Chief of Staff to June 1968
  • Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States
  • Johnson, U. Alexis, Ambassador to Japan
  • Johnson, W. Thomas (Tom), Assistant Press Secretary to the President
  • Jones, James R. (Jim), Special Assistant to the President
  • Jorden, William J., Staff Member, National Security Council; after May 1968, Member, U.S. Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Kaplan, Harold, Member, U.S. Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Karamessines, Thomas, Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Katzenbach, Nicholas deB., Under Secretary of State
  • Kennedy, Edward (Ted), Senator (Democrat-Massachusetts)
  • Kennedy, Robert F., Senator (Democrat-New York)
  • Kissinger, Henry A., consultant to the Department of State; informal adviser to the Rockefeller and Nixon Presidential campaigns
  • Komer, Robert W., Deputy for Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development to the Commander, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, and Special Assistant to the Ambassador to Vietnam
  • Koplowitz, Wilfred D., Chief, Political Operations Division, Central Intelligence Agency Station in Saigon
  • Kosygin, Alexei, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
  • Krulak, Lieutenant General Victor, Commander, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific
  • Lansdale, Edward, Special Assistant to the Ambassador to Vietnam
  • Lapham, Lewis, Chief of Station in Saigon
  • Laird, Melvin, Representative (Republican-Wisconsin)
  • Le Duc Tho, Special Adviser, Democratic Republic of Vietnam Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • LeMay, Curtis, Vice Presidential candidate, American Independent Party
  • Leonhart, William, Special Assistant to the President
  • Levison, Lawrence, Deputy Special Counsel to the President
  • Locke, Eugene, Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam to January 1968
  • Lodge, Henry Cabot, Ambassador at large to May 7, 1968; Ambassador to Germany after May 27, 1968
  • Long, Russell, Senator (Democrat-Louisiana)
  • Macovescu, George, First Deputy Foreign Minister of RomaniaMai Van Bo, Democratic Republic of Vietnam Representative to France
  • Manac’h, Etienne, Director for Asia, French Foreign Ministry
  • Manatos, Mike, Administrative Assistant to the President
  • Mansfield, Mike, Senate Majority Leader (Democrat-Montana)
  • Marks, Leonard, Director, United States Information Agency
  • Maurer, Ion Gheorghe, President of the Council of Ministers of Romania
  • McCain, Admiral John S., Commander in Chief, Pacific, after July 31, 1968
  • McCarthy, Eugene, Senator (Democrat-Minnesota)
  • McCloskey, Robert J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Department Spokesman
  • McCloy, John J., former Assistant Secretary of War and High Commissioner for Germany; informal adviser to the President
  • McConnell, General John P., Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force
  • McCormack, John, Speaker of the House of Representatives (Democrat-Massachusetts)
  • McGee, Gale, Senator (Democrat-Wyoming)
  • McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense to February 29, 1968; thereafter President of the World Bank
  • McPherson, Harry, Special Counsel to the President
  • Middleton, Harry, Staff Assistant to the President
  • Mills, Wilbur, Representative (Democrat-Arkansas)
  • Momyer, General William, Commander, 7th Air Force, Pacific, and Deputy Commander for Air, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
  • Moorer, Admiral Thomas, Chief of Naval Operations
  • Moyers, William (Bill), Special Assistant to the President, 1964–1967
  • Murphy, Charles, Special Consultant to the President
  • Murphy, Robert, adviser to Presidential candidate Nixon
  • Negroponte, John, Staff Member and interpreter, U.S. Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Nelson, Gaylord, Senator (Democrat-Wisconsin)
  • Ngo Minh Loan, Democratic Republic of Vietnam Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China
  • Nguyen Cao Ky, Vice President of the Republic of Vietnam
  • Nguyen Chan, Chargé d’Affaires of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam Embassy in Vientiane
  • Nguyen Dinh Phuong, Member, Democratic Republic of Vietnam Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Nguyen Dinh Trinh, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • Nguyen Duc Thang, Commanding General, IV Combat Tactical Zone, Army of the Republic of Vietnam
  • Nguyen Minh Vy, Member, Democratic Republic of Vietnam Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Nguyen Ngoc Loan, Director General of the National Police and Chief of the Military Security Service, Republic of Vietnam
  • Nguyen Thanh Le, Member and Spokesman, Democratic Republic of Vietnam Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Nguyen Van Loc, Republic of Vietnam Prime Minister to May 18, 1968
  • Nguyen Van Thieu, President of the Republic of Vietnam
  • Nguyen Van Vy, Minister of Defense and Minister of Veteran’s Affairs, Republic of Vietnam
  • Nguyen Xuan Phong, Member, Republic of Vietnam Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Nitze, Paul, Deputy Secretary of Defense
  • Nixon, Richard M., Republican candidate for President
  • Norodum Sihanouk, Chief of State of Cambodia
  • Nugroho, Indonesian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • Oberemko, Valentin, Political Officer of the Soviet Embassy in Paris
  • O’Brien, Lawrence (Larry), Postmaster-General to April 10, 1968
  • Oelhart, Benjamin, Ambassador to Pakistan
  • Orotona, Egidio, Italian Ambassador to the United States
  • Osberg, J.C.S., First Secretary, Swedish Foreign Ministry
  • Palmer, General Bruce, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, Vietnam
  • Park (Pak) Chung-hee, President of the Republic of Korea
  • Paul IV, Pope
  • Pearson, Drew, syndicated news columnist
  • Pell, Claiborne, Senator (Democrat-Rhode Island)
  • Perry, Jack, Political Officer and Second Secretary of the Embassy in Paris
  • Petri, Lennart, Swedish Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China
  • Pham Dang Lam, Republic of Vietnam observer at the Official Conversations on Vietnam
  • Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister, Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • Phan Hien, Member, Democratic Republic of Vietnam Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Phan Van Su, Democratic Republic of Vietnam Ambassador to Czechoslovakia
  • Pierson, W. DeVier, Special Counsel to the President
  • Pursley, Robert., Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
  • Raimondi, Archbishop Luigi, Apostolic Delegate to the United States
  • Read, Benjamin, Executive Secretary of the Department of State
  • Reischauer, Edwin O., Professor of History, Harvard University, and Ambassador to Japan, 1961–1966
  • Resor, Stanley, Secretary of the Army
  • Reuss, Henry, Representative (Democrat-Wisconsin)
  • Ribicoff, Abraham, Senator (Democrat-Connecticut)
  • Ridgway, General Matthew B. (ret.), informal adviser to President Johnson
  • Ridgway, Rozanne, Political Officer of the Embassy in Oslo
  • Rivers, L. Mendel, Representative (Democrat-South Carolina)
  • Robb, Charles (Chuck), Marine Corps officer in Vietnam and son-in-law of the President
  • Roche, John, Special Assistant to the President
  • Rockefeller, Nelson, Governor of New York
  • Rostow, Walt W., Special Assistant to the President
  • Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State
  • Russell, Richard, Senator (Democrat-Georgia)
  • Sainteny, Jean, unofficial French envoy to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • Sanders, Harold Barefoot, Legislative Counsel to the President
  • Sharp, Admiral Ulysses S., Commander in Chief, Pacific, to July 31, 1968
  • Sidle, Major General Winant, Chief, Office of Information, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
  • Sisco, Joseph, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizational Affairs
  • Smathers, George, Senator (D–FL)
  • Smith, Admiral Abbott, Chairman, National Board of Estimates
  • Smith, Bromley, Executive Secretary, National Security Council
  • Smith, Margaret Chase, Senator (Republican-Maine)
  • Sorensen, Theodore, informal adviser to Senator Robert F. Kennedy
  • Souvanna Phouma, Laotian Prime Minister
  • Sparkman, John, Senator (Democrat-Alabama)
  • Steadman, Richard, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia and Pacific Affairs
  • Stewart, Michael, British Foreign Secretary
  • Sullivan, William H., Ambassador to Laos
  • Swank, Emory, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy in Moscow
  • Taylor, General Maxwell, Special Consultant to the President
  • Thanh Le, Member and Spokesman, Democratic Republic of Vietnam Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Thant, U, United Nations Secretary-General
  • Thompson, Llewelyn, Ambassador to the Soviet Union
  • Thompson, Sir Robert, counter-insurgency expert
  • Tibbetts, Margaret Joy, Ambassador to Norway
  • Ton That Tien, Minister of Information, Republic of Vietnam
  • Tower, John, Senator (Republican-Texas)
  • Tran Buu Kiem, Member, National Liberation Front delegation to the Paris peace talks
  • Tran Chanh Thanh, Republic of Vietnam Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Tran Quang Co, Member, Democratic Republic of Vietnamese Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Tran Van Don, Republic of Vietnam Senator
  • Tran Van Huong, Republic of Vietnam Prime Minister from May 18, 1968
  • Tran Van Lam, Republic of Vietnam Senator and Chief of unofficial delegation in Paris
  • Trueheart, William, Deputy Director for Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • Unger, Leonard, Ambassador to Thailand
  • Vance, Cyrus R., Member, U.S. Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Vann, John Paul, Military and Pacification Adviser to the Commander, III Corps
  • Vo Nguyen Giap, General, Democratic Republic of Vietnam Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense
  • Vuong Van Bac, Member, Republic of Vietnam Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Wallace, George, Independent Presidential candidate
  • Wallner, Woodruff, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy in Paris
  • Walsh, John P., Deputy Executive Secretary, Department of State
  • Walt, Lieutenant General Lewis, Commander, III Marine Amphibious Force
  • Warnke, Paul, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International and Security Affairs
  • Westmoreland, General William C., Commander, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, to June 11, 1968; Army Chief of Staff after July 3, 1968
  • Weyand, Lieutenant General Frederick C., Commander, 25th Division (Saigon/Gia Dinh area); after June 1968 Deputy Commander, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
  • Wheeler, General Earle, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Wilson, Harold, British Prime Minister
  • Xuan Thuy, Chief, Democratic Republic of Vietnam Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Young, Stephen, Senator (Democrat-Ohio)
  • Zorin, Valerian, Soviet Ambassador to France
  • Zwick, Charles, Director, Office of Management and Budget