"The Vietnam War Declassification Project"

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon, the staff of the Gerald R. Ford Library reviewed for possible declassification nearly 40,000 pages of National Security Adviser files. This exhibit illustrates the wealth of material now available for research. Description of the Library's core holdings on Vietnam Additional Vietnam War documents and photographs

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, and President Ford discuss the American evacuation of Saigon, April 28, 1975.

• Intelligence Report "Thieu Unlikely to Win Emergency Powers", May 19, 1972
• Ambassador Bunker's cable on corruption in South Vietnam, July 19, 1972
• President Nixon's Pentagon meeting on returning prisoners of war, February 15, 1973
• President Ford's meeting with bipartisan congressional leadership on foreign aid, September 12, 1974
• Ambassador Dean's cable on a Cambodian settlement, February 6, 1975
• "Ominous Developments in Vietnam",March 12, 1975
• A second opinion on General Weyand's visit to South Vietnam, April 5, 1975
• Kissinger cables to Saigon the President's evacuation decision, April 29, 1975
• Helicopter pilot radio transmissions during the Saigon evacuation, April 29, 1975
• "Lessons of Vietnam", May 12, 1975
• "Debrief of the Mayaguez Captain and Crew", May 19, 1975
• "The Situation in Asia", July 15, 1975
• "Life Inside Cambodia", May 10, 1976
• "Escape from South Vietnam" [Refugees], July 10, 1976
• Indochina refugee "Boat Cases", December 10, 1976

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Last Updated: February 7, 2006