Media Type

Audio

Physical Location

Stacks D26.5A

Number of Media

1

Language(s)

English Russian Vietnamese

Format

Reel-to-Reel

Time - Hr:Min:Sec

00:52:49

Digitized in HD?

No

General Note

[VNCA NOTE:Audio presented is side A of reel. Upon review, contents of side B were determined to be irrelevant to the subject matter.] ;
[VNCA NOTE: Original audio recording was muffled and faded in some places. In processing, entire recording was normalized to -0.1dB for an easier listening experience.] ;

00:20 audio begins; "negotiating peace in Vietnam is like the weather"; an examination of America's efforts to end war in Vietnam through negotiations
00:44 man's voice; Vice President Humphrey; Meet the Press; March 11th, 1966; "obtain peace"; response from Hanoi;
1:14 Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, Face the Nation, March 20th, 1966; unconditional discussions; Geneva; peaceful solution; Southeast Asia;
2:35 female narrator; September; Ambassador Goldberg; General Assembly; United Nations; offer for peace; Hanoi;
3:31 female narrator; "do our deeds match our words";
Today Show; February 8, 1967; Journalism; University of Columbia; Pauline Frederick; NBC UN Correspondent; Boston Globe; Donald Grant Saint Louis Post Dispatch.
4:34 August 1964; Ho Chi Minh; Hanoi: Moscow; Secretary General; bombing; North Vietnam;
5:10 Second Attempt; Hanoi; North Vietnamese ambassador; American ambassador; Warsaw; secret meeting; bombing of Hanoi;
6:47 lack of coordination between state department and Pentagon; President’s decision;
7:22 peace initiatives and reporting in the press; NBC; Boston Globe; St. Louis Post Dispatch; State Department spokesperson; Bob McCloskey; no agreement to meet; Washington Post;
9:26 comments in the papers; criticism of president's decision; London; Prime Minister Wilson; Parliament; December talks; misunderstanding;
10:30 bombing of North Vietnam: Soviet Premiere Alexis Kosygin; new conference; London; February 9th 1967; Russian language being spoken;
11:09 Back to English language; foreign minister; Democratic Republic of Vietnam; Australian journalist; Wilferd Burchett; end bombing; political solution;
13:00 female narrator; American response; President Johnson; secretary of state; Dean Rusk; minimum peace proposal; February 9th, 1967; President Johnson speech; “not peace at any price”; Dean Rusk; "systematic campaign by communist side"; "quiet diplomacy"; "mutual steps to reduce the violence";
15:13 female narrator: Senator Fulbright; Chairman of Senate Foreign Affairs Committee;
15:25 male voice; interview of Senator Fulbright; eight-point peace plan; stop the bombing;
16:07 Hanoi: Harrison Salsbury; associate editor; New York Times: effect of bombing on North Vietnam; Vietnamese citizens united because of bombing; communist;
17:58 female narrator; Edwin Reischauer; former ambassador; Japan; January 31st 1967; de-escalation;
18:13 Edwin Reischauer; de-escalation; negotiations;
19:37 female narrator; Harvard University faculty; chairman of state department; East Asia and Pacific Affairs Committee;
19:52 female narrator; George F. Ken; ambassador to Soviet Union; Yugoslavia; author of Post-war policy of containment of the Soviet Union; January 30th; 1967
20:12 George F. Ken; bombing; risk; adverse effects; Pope Paul?; loss of innocent civilians; atomic bombings;
22:24 American opinions; air offensive; Louis Harris Poll; Mill Stout; CBS News; New York;
22:43 female narrator; stumbling block to negotiations; Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; Pulitzer Prize winning historian; Special advisor to president Kennedy; Richard Goodwin; ABC Scope; November 12th; 1966;
23:18 interview with Richard Goodwin; automobile workers strike; terms of proposal; political compromise;
24:45 Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; Manila; Viet Cong; Hanoi; 1946; 1954; Chinese; mistrust;
26:35 female narrator; secretary of state; Dean Rusk; February 18th, 1966; Senator Fulbright; election;
28:14 American policy; free election; Viet Cong; Vice President Humphrey; Meet the Press; March 11th 1966;
28:28 Vice President Humphrey; political objective; Vietnamese freedom and independence; possibility of communism winning in free election;
29:33 female narrator; Malcom Brown; Saigon; Viet Cong; ABC Scope;
30:00 Malcom Brown July 23rd 1966; Viet Cong; Buddhists; Catholics; urban politicians;
30:43 female narrator; free elections; South Vietnam; Saigon South Vietnamese elections; 1966; communists;
31:17 Ambassador Dien; Sunday January 29th, 1967; Meet the Press;
31:51 female narrator; Communism; party; outlawed; free elections;
32:14 Secretary of State; Dean Rusk; Senate Foreign Relations Committee; communist regime;
32:52 female narrator; Saigon; America; Viet Cong; South Vietnamese ambassador Diem; January 29th, 1967
33:30 interview with ambassador Diem; peace; communists; North Vietnam; Nation Front of Liberation; Nation Front of Liberation;
34:33 America's policy; Vice President Humphrey; Ambassador Goldberg; General Assembly; United Nations; differing policies;
36:55 February 1966; Senator Kennedy; Viet Cong; middle of the road policy; Stanford University; survey; March 1966; University of Chicago; negotiations with Viet Cong; John Craft polls; hawks; doves; President Johnson; February 2nd; press conference; Geneva Accords;
39:24 Senator Fulbright; Meet the Press; January 22nd 1967; Geneva Conference; ICC;
40:01 National Liberation Front; Sander Vanocur; high official National Liberation Front; Algiers; August 30th 1966; Vietnamese language with English language translation dubbed over;
41:34 female narrator; National Liberation Front; 1954 ;Geneva Conference; Bedell Smith;
42:00 Secretary of State John Foster Dulles; 1954 Geneva Agreements; Charles Collingwood; "negotiating peace in Vietnam...is like the weather"; Anthony Eden; Molotov; Russia; Geneva Conference; Lord Avon; Former secretary of state Dean Acheson; Senator Lyndon Johnson; American policy;
44:28 female narrator; Dr. Melman; Columbia University; free elections; February 24th 1966; male speaker; Dr. Millman; letter; New York Times; speech; negotiations; North Vietnam; South Vietnamese; ceasefire; standstill; election; interim council: Buddhists; Catholics; National Liberation Front;
49:32 female narrator; Saigon; Viet Cong; Manila Conference; October 25th; Premiere Ky; communists; Vice President Humphrey;
51:39 female narrator; NOTE: there is an echo of the female narrator; this is part of the original audio found on the reel;
52:46 audio ends; NOTE: deleted roughly 6 mins of silence after audio ends;