There are many topics for which the published transcripts of congressional committee hearings can be useful sources. Transcripts of important committee hearings, if not classified, are usually published by the Government Printing Office (GPO), in Washington. The published transcripts are often accompanied by considerable amounts of documentation, or the documents may even be published without the excuse of a hearing. In the Clemson University Library, these are located on Level 3 (one floor down from the main entrance), and usually have call numbers starting with Y 4.
The original fundamental tool of identifying published Congressional committee hearings, and other U.S. Government publications, was the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, issued monthly by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Issues for the years 1895 to 1976 can now be searched online by users at subscribing institutions, in a database maintained by ProQuest. Recent government publications can be searhced through the GPO web site..
ProQuest Congressional is a huge online database listing a really wide range of of Congressional publications. Users at subscribing institutions can go directly to the Congressional Publications Advanced Search.
Other ways of locating Congressional publications include:
The index published by the Congressional Information Service (CIS) from 1970 onward is very good. For each year there are two volumes. One, titled Abstracts, has all the hearings published that year, arranged by committee. The other, Index, is the subject index. Look up whatever you are after, such as "Laos" or "Colby, William" in the Index, and you will see a list of items. If one looks as if it might be interesting, look it up in the Abstracts to get a more detailed description, and the call number that will let you find it on the shelf (at least in most cases) two floors up on Level 3. Bear in mind that a hearing held in one year may be published in a later year. (In the Clemson University Library, the CIS volumes have recently been moved down to Room 104, with a sign "Abstracts" by the door, in the back on the lowest floor of the library. The last time I checked, these volumes were in the middle aisle, right side, but I presume the room will soon be reorganized; when that happens, look for them under call number KF 49 .C62. They may be moved again when the current renovation program is completed.)
The Congressional Information Service has a process called Documents on Demand by which one can order either microfilm or paper copies of congressional committee hearings and other congressional documents, dating from the 1970s and after. This is much more expensive than buying from the GPO, but the older things simply aren't available from the GPO. Call (301) 654-1550.
A significant fraction of Congressional Committee publications take the form of numbered reports, and can be found in the Serial Set. It can be found in the form of bound volumes in many of the better libraries, and also the actual texts of the items in the Serial Set, from 1817 to 1994, has been made available in an online database by the Readex Corporation. In the Clemson University Library's Databases Page, go to "Serial Set" under the letter S. Users at other subscribing institutions should have access to some similar arrangement.
In the past, the only congressional committee hearings that were accessible
to most researchers were those published by the
GPO. Recently, however, the Congressional Information Service
has been releasing, on microfiche, massive collections of the transcripts
of previously unpublished congressional committee hearings, and indices
to accompany these collections:
Unpublished U.S. Senate committee hearings: 18th Congress to 88th Congress, 1823-1964. Bethesda, MD: Congressional Information Service, 1986. 9,072 microfiches, about 7,300 hearings.Unpublished U.S. Senate committee hearings: 89th Congress to 90th Congress, 1965-1968. Bethesda, MD: Congressional Information Service, 1989. 853 microfiches, 684 hearings.
Unpublished U.S. Senate committee hearings: 91st Congress to 92d Congress, 1969-1973; 1913-1968 supplement, 63rd Congress-90th Congress. Bethesda, MD: Congressional Information Service, 1995. 729 microfiche; 458 hearings from 1969-1972, plus 230 hearings from the years 1913-1968 that had been omitted from the previous sets.
Unpublished U.S. Senate committee hearings: 93d Congress to 94th Congress, 1973-1976 (with supplement). Bethesda, MD: Congressional Information Service. 938 microfiche, 647 hearings.
Unpublished U.S. House of Representatives Committee Hearings. Bethesada, MD: Congressional Information Service.
1947-1954: 4,700 transcripts on 5,411 microfiche.1955-1958: 2,575 hearings on 2975 microfiche.
1959-1964: approximately 2,580 transcripts on 3,128 microfiche.
1965-1968 (with supplement): approximately 2,400 transcripts from the years 1965-1968, plus about 1,000 that had been omitted from previous sets, some of which I suspect are quite important, on about 3,800 microfiche. Forthcoming.
The listing of congressional committee publications that follows is for the most part organized chronologically, but there are occasional deviations from chronological order:
William C. Gibbons, et. al., The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships. This valuable historical study was prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. (Aside from being published by the GPO, these volumes have been reprinted by Princeton University Press.) Four volumes have been published; Gibbons was working on the fifth when he died in 2015. These volumes have been placed online by Hathi Trust.
Part 1, 1945-1961
(actually only covering the period from 1945 to 1960). Washington: GPO, 1984. xiii, 365 pp..
Y 4.F 76/2:S.prt.98-185/pt.1
Part 2, 1961-1964. Washington: GPO,
1985. xiii, 424 pp. Includes some interesting material relating to the Tonkin Gulf incidents.
Y 4.F 76/2:S.prt.98-185/pt.2
Part 3, January-July 1965. Washington: GPO, 1988. xvi, 489 pp.
Y 4.F 76/2:S.prt..100-163/pt.3
Part 4, July 1965-January 1968.
Washington: GPO, 1994. xvi, 969 pp.
Y 4.F 76/2:S.prt.103-83/pt.4
Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Historical
Series). Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976- . Several volumes are titled Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee Together with Joint Sessions with the Senate Armed Services Committee. These
volumes contain the declassified transcripts
of sessions, in many of which senior officials presented secret information. Volumes I (1947-1948)
to XVIII (1966) were published between 1976 and 1993. Then there was a prolongued hiatus. But publication resumed
in 2007. Recent volumes have been placed online by the U.S. government, and older ones by the Hathi Trust.
Y 4.F76/2:Ex 3/2
Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, vol. VI, 1954. x, 993 pp. The text is available online at Hathi Trust.
Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, vol. VII, 1955. x, 923 pp. The text is available online at Hathi Trust.
Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, vol. VIII, 1956. viii, 699 pp. The text is available online at Hathi Trust.
Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, vol. XIII, 1961, Part 1. vi, 656 pp. January to May, 1961. The text is available online at Hathi Trust.
Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, vol. XIII, 1961, Part 2. vi, 724 pp. June to December, 1961. The text is available online at Hathi Trust.
Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Together with Joint Sessions with the Senate Armed Services Committee, vol. XIV, 1962. ix, 835 pp. The text is available online at Hathi Trust.
Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, vol. XV, 1963. vii, 920 pp. The text is available online at Hathi Trust.
Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Together with Joint Sessions with the Senate Armed Services Committee, vol. XVI, (1964). x, 385 pp. The text is available online at Hathi Trust. Interesting items include the passages that had been redacted from the previously published transcript of the hearing of August 6 on the Tonkin Gulf incidents, and Ambassador Maxwell Taylor's appearances to discuss the situation in South Vietnam. Interesting points in Taylor's testimony of September 10: Wayne Morse, asking suspicious questions about recent raids against the coast of North Vietnam (pp. 329-31), was not suspicious enough; it did not occur to Morse to doubt that the raids were controlled by the government of South Vietnam. Also, Taylor made it clear (pp. 343-43) that the Viet Cong forces were still made up overwhelmingly of native-born South Vietnamese.
Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Together with Joint Sessions with the Senate Armed Services Committee, vol. XVII, 1965. xi, 1290 pp. The text is available online at Hathi Trust.
Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, vol. XVIII, 1966. vi, 1026 pp. The text is available online at Hathi Trust.
Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Together with Joint Sessions with the Senate Armed Services Committee, Volume XIX (1967). S. Prt. 110-20. 2007. xi, 1071 pp.
Volume XX (1968). S. Prt. 111-23. 2010. vii, 1167 pp. In a brief skim, I found surprisingly little about the Tet Offensive of 1968, but a number of discussions (the most interesting being at a committee meeting of January 24) relating to the Tonkin Gulf incidents of 1964.
Causes, Origins, and Lessons of the Vietnam War. Hearings before
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, May 9-11, 1972. Part or all of this has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive
of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University. The hearing of May 11
dealt with early US involvement in Vietnam in the 1940s, with
testimony by former OSS officer Frank White, and by Abbott Low Moffat, the Chief of the Division of Southeast Asian Affairs in the
State Department from 1943 to 1947.
pp. 143-191;
pp. 191-205.
About one hundred pages of documents on the 1940s were published with the transcript:
pp. 241-280;
pp. 281-323;
pp. 324-339. For the hearings of
May 9 and 10, dealing with issues current in the 1970s,
see below.
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/24
The U.S. and Vietnam: 1944-1947. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
staff study, April 3, 1972, based on the Pentagon Papers. 44 pp.
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/21/944-47 (fiche)
Mutual Defense Assistance in Indochina. Agreement between the
United States of America and Cambodia, France, Laos, and Viet Nam signed
at Saïgon December 23, 1950, entered into force December 23, 1950.
Washington: GPO, 1953. 47 pp.
S 9.10:2447
Mutual Defense Assistance in Indochina. Washington: GPO, 1956.
15 pp. Various amendments, mostly dating from 1951, to the agreement in
the preceding item.
S 9.10:3131
Selected Executive Session Hearings of the Committee, 1951-56, vol. XVIII, U.S. Policy in the Far East, Part 2, Developments
in Southeast Asia; The China Question. Historical Series, House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Washington: GPO, 1980.
Y 4.F 76/1:H 62/v.18
Indochina. Report of Mike Mansfield on a study mission to Associated States of Indochina, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos. Washington: GPO, 1953. v,
12 pp. The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive
of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
Y 4.F 76/2:In 2/2
The Mutual Security Act of 1954. Hearings before the House Committee
on Foreign Affairs, April 5-June 8, 1954. Includes interesting testimony
on Indochina by Secretary of State Dulles April 5. 1326 pp.
Y 4.F 76/1:M 98/111
Strength of International Communist Movement (study prepared
for the the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, May 1954), iii + 78pp.
Y 4.F 76/2:C 73/954
Report on Indochina. Report of Mike Mansfield on a study mission
to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, October 15, 1954. Washington: GPO, 1954. vi,
48 pp. Appendix II (pp. 41-48) is a set of biographical sketches of Vietnamese, Cambodian,
Laotian, and French figures, some of which would be hard to find elsewhere. The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in two parts:
front matter and pp. 1-24,
pp. 25-48.
Y 4.F 76/2:In 2/2/954
Viet Nam, Cambodia,and Laos. Report by Senator Mike Mansfield, October 6, 1955. v, 19 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.
Situation in Vietnam. Hearings before the Subcommittee on State Department Organization
and Public Affairs, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, July
30-31, December 7-8, 1959. Washington, DC: GPO, 1960. Part 2 is hearings held in Saigon December 7-8, 1959,
nominally by the Subcommittee on State Department Organization and Public Affairs,
actually by Senators Albert Gore and Gale McGee (neither of whom was a member of that
subcommittee). The focus is on financial matters, mostly pretty trivial--whether motor pool
cars were being misused, whether roads were being built wider than necessary. The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in four parts:
pp. i-v, 235-264,
pp. 265-297,
pp. 298-331, and
pp. 332-369.
Y 4.F76/2:V67/2/pt. 1 and Y4.F76/2:V67/2/pt. 2
United States Aid Program in Vietnam. Report of the State Department
Organization and Public Affairs Subcommittee, Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, February 26, 1960. vi, 60 pp.
Y 4.F76/2:V67/3
Vietnam Commitments, 1961. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
staff study, March 20, 1972, based on the Pentagon Papers. 38 pp.
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/20/961 (fiche)
Senator Allen J. Ellender, A report of United States foreign policy and operations, 1961: U.S.S.R., Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Vietnam,
Laos, Cambodia, Thailand. Senate Appropriations Committee. Washington: GPO, 1962. vii, 342 pp.
Senate Document 87-73
Analysis of the Khrushchev Speech of January 6, 1961. Hearing before the Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, June 16, 1961, with Professor of International Politics Stefan Possony describing Khrushchev's speech as similar to Hitler's Mein Kampf. Full text of the speech is included.
Senator Mike Mansfield, "Southeast Asia - Vietnam" (report of December 18, 1962), in Two Reports on Vietnam and Southeast Asia, to the President
of the United States (Washington: GPO, 1973), pp. 5-14.
Senate Document 93-11
Viet Nam and Southeast Asia. Report of Mike Mansfield, J. Caleb Boggs, Claiborne Pell, and Benjamin A. Smith. Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, 1963. v, 22 pp. The text
has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/4
Department of Defense Appropriations for 1965, Part 4. Hearings before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee,
February 17-March 2, 1964. Washington: GPO, 1964. ii, 771, x pp. McNamara's statement Feb 18, p. 98, that the U.S. had only about
15,500 military personnel in Vietnam, is interesting.
Y 4.Ap 6/1:D 36/5/965/pt.4
Foreign Operations Appropriations for 1965, part 2. Hearings
before the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations Appropriations, House Appropriations
Committee. Washington: GPO, 1964. The text
is available online at Hathi Trust. Testimony of William Bundy on aid for
the Far East, May 4, 1964, on pp. 369-420, is interesting, particularly
on the question of whether the US was using obsolete aircraft in Indochina. The New York Times,
June 19, 1964, p. 5, slightly exaggerated Bundy's statement (p. 418), "We are going to drive the Communists out of South Vietnam. . . . We are trying to do that
without attacking the countries to the north with all the problems that involves. If it comes to that, we will have to face that choice."
Y 4.Ap 6/1:F 76/2/965/pt.2
Report of United Nations Fact-Finding Mission to South Vietnam. Published by the Internal Security Subcommittee, Senate Judiciary Committee,
1964. vii, 324 pp. The original UN document, no. A/5630, 7 December 1963, was titled "The Violation of Human Rights in South Viet-Nam:
Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission to South Viet-Nam. The text
is available online at Hathi Trust.
Y 4.J 89/2:V 67
Military Procurement Authorizations, Fiscal Year 1966. Hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Subcommittee
on Department of Defense of the Senate Appropriations Committee, February
24-March 15, 1965. 1261, xx pp. On February 24, McNamara predicted
that the military budget for FY 1966 would be lower than that for FY 1965 (pp. 7-8).
Y 4.Ar 5/3:P 94/6/966
Foreign Assistance, 1965. Hearings before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, March 9-April 7, 1965. vii, 772 pp. Previous and following
years adjacent.
Y 4.F 76/2:F 76/13/965
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1965. Hearings before the House
Foreign Affairs Committee, February 9-March 10, 1965, 9 parts. Subject
index is in part 9, pp. 1327-72.
Y 4.F 76/1:F 76/28/965/pt.1-9
Department of Defense Appropriations for 1966. Hearings
before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, February 11-
, 1965. McNamara said March 2 (Part 3, p. 63) "we cannot substitute
U.S. troops for Vietnamese troops to carry out counterguerrilla operations
. . . I do not believe that American troops can be used to substitute for
South Vietnamese troops on the ground in South Vietnam to counter guerrillas
operating in the country."
Y 4.Ap 6/1:D 36/5/966/pt.1-5
Supplemental Department of Defense Appropriation for 1965. Hearing before the House Appropriations Committee, May 4, 1965. ii, 26 pp.
The text
is available online at Hathi Trust. Hearing on the Johnson administration's request for a supplemental
appropriation of $700,000,000 for the Vietnam War. Secretary of Defense McNamara and CJCS Wheeler were witnesses. Interesting for the lack of any
probing questions from committee members about how much further escalation of the war the administration expected, and for McNamara's citation (p. 24) of
a single North Vietnamese battalion having been identified in the Central Highlands as representing a substantial increase in the North Vietnamese
role in the war in South Vietnam.
Y 4.Ap 6/1:D 36/5/965-2
Supplemental Appropriations for Department of Defense, 1965, Emergency Fund, Southeast Asia. Hearing before the Senate Appropriations
Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee, May 5, 1965. ii, 36, i pp.
The text
is available online at Hathi Trust. Hearing on the Johnson administration's request for a supplemental
appropriation of $700,000,000 for the Vietnam War. Secretary of Defense McNamara and CJCS Wheeler were witnesses.
Y 4.Ap 6/2:D 36/4/965-2
U.S. Army Readiness. Hearings before the Preparedness Investigating
Subcommittee, Senate Armed Services Committee, May 13-June 30, 1965. iii,
199 pp.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:Ar 5/9
Report of Special Subcommittee to South Vietnam, following inspection
tour, June 10-21, 1965, House Foreign Affairs Committee paper. 12 pp.
Y 4.Ar 5/2a:965-66/31
Senator Mike Mansfield, "Vietnam: The Situation and Outlook" (report
of December 17, 1965), in Two Reports on Vietnam and Southeast Asia,
to the President of the United States (Washington: GPO, 1973), pp.
17-33.
Senate Document 93-11
The Vietnam Conflict: The Substance and the Shadow. Report to
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Senators Mike Mansfield [Senate
Majority Leader], Edmund Muskie, Daniel Inouye, George Aiken, and Caleb
Boggs, January 6, 1966. v, 32 pp.
The text
has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam
Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/7
United States Policy Toward Asia. Hearings before the Subcommittee on the Far East and the Pacific, House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Part I. Hearings of January 25 to February 3, 1966. iv, 224 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in twelve parts: front matter and pp. 1-46 (Howard L. Boorman, Robert F. Dernberger, Brig. Gen. Samuel B. Griffith, II, Ralph L. Powell, and A. Doak Barnett, on China, including prospects for Chinese intervention in Vietnam); pp. 47-96 (O. Edmund Clubb, Alexander Eckstein, and John Lindbeck on China; George McT. Kahin, Thomas Schelling, and Charles Wolf on assorted issues including China, Vietnam, and various Southeast Asian countries); pp. 97-146 (Kahin, Schelling, and Wolf, continued; Hans J. Morgenthau and Roger Hilsman); pp. 147-196 (Morgenthau and Hilsman, continued; Donald G. Brennan and William R. Kintner; Willem Holst and Robert F. Meagher talking mostly about India); pp. 197-224 (Holst and Meagher, continued; Bronson P. Clark of AFSC, on China)
Part II. Hearings of February 15 to March 10, 1966. pp. i-iv, 225- .
Front matter and pp. 225-242
(David N. Rowe, Stefan T. Possony, and Stephen C. Y. Pan);
. . .
pp. 493-542
(Kenneth T. Young, Jr.; William Henderson; Dean Rusk; William P. Bundy);
pp. 543-582
(William P. Bundy and
Harald Jacobson; Appendix, including A) statement of Anna Chennault, and D) statement of Dean Rusk
before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee).
Supplemental Military Procurement and Construction Authorization,
Fiscal Year 1966. Hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee
and the Subcommittee on Department of Defense of the Senate Appropriations
Committee, January 20-February 2, 1966. 367, ix pp. LBJ had
asked on January 19, 1966 for $12,345,719,000 in supplementary funds for Vietnam. Top military officers and civilian officials discussed
many aspects of the Vietnam War.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:P 94/6/966-2
Supplemental Foreign Assistance Fiscal Year 1966--Vietnam, part
1. Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, January 28, February 4, 8, 10, 17,
18, 1966. v, 743, xii pp. The main body of the text (though not, so far as I have found,
the Appendix or the subject index) has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam
Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University:
pp. i-v, 1-43
(testimony of Secretary of State Dean Rusk, accompanied by David E. Bell, Administrator, AID,
and Rutherford M. Poats, Assistant Administrator, Far East, AID, begins on p. 2);
pp. 44-94,
pp. 95-144,
pp. 145-194,
pp. 195-244
(testimony of Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin (Ret.) begins on p. 226);
pp. 245-294,
[p. 295 missing];
pp. 296-344
(hearing of February 10, with testimony of George F. Kennan, begins on p. 329);
pp. 345-394
pp. 395-444
(hearing of February 17, with testimony of General Maxwell D. Taylor (Ret.) begins on p. 431)
pp. 445-494
[slightly out of order--p. 494 is at the beginning instead of at the end];
pp. 495-544,
pp. 545-594,
pp. 595-644,
pp. 645-684.
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/8/pt.1.
Fiscal Year 1966 Supplemental Authorization for Vietnam. Hearings
before the House Armed Services Committee, February 13-17, 1966.
Y 4.Ar 5/2a:965/66
Military Procurement Authorizations for Fiscal Year 1967.
Hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Subcommittee
on Department of Defense of the Senate Appropriations Committee, February
23-March 31, 1966. 1049, xix pp.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:P 94/6/967
Background Information Relating to Southeast Asia and Vietnam. A collection of documents and information, periodically revised and re-released as a Senate Foreign Relations Committee print.
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/5/965 [3d ed., June 16, 1965. vii, 233 pp.]
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/5/966 [4th ed.]
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/5/969 [5th ed., March 1969. vii, 272 pp. March 1969. This has a very interesting statistical table, including DOD estimates of PAVN infiltration into South Vietnam, and Communists KIA by years from 1960 to 1968, on p. 236, and the 1967 Constitution of the Republic of Vietnam on pp. 239-55.]
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/5/970 (microfiche) [6th ed., June 1970. vii, 455 pp. Pages 1-132 are a detailed chronology running from June 1948 to May 1970.]
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/5/974 (microfiche) [7th ed., December 1974. ix, 660 pp. This contains numerous documents relating to the peace process, 1972-1974. Pages 1-180 are a detailed chronology running from June 1948 to August 1973.]
Status of Ammunition and Air Munitions. Hearings before the Preparedness
Investigating
Subcommittee, Senate Armed Services Committee, January 26-March 17, 1966.
iii, 200 pp.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:Am 6/4
U.S. Policy with Respect to Mainland China. Hearings before
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, March 8-30,
1966. iv, 657, xiv pp. The volume has an index, enabling
one actually to find the pages on which Vietnam is discussed.
Y 4.F 76/2:C 44/5
Report of Special Subcommittee Following Visit to Southeast Asia, April 7-19, 1966. House Committee on Armed Services, July 19, 1966. pp. i-ii, 9545-9569. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
U.S. Army Combat Readiness. Hearings before the Preparedness
Investigating Subcommittee, Senate Armed Services Committee, May 3-4, 1966.
iii, 68 pp. General Paul Freeman and General Harold K. Johnson.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:Ar 5/9/966
Republican Conference, House of Representatives, "The United States
and the War in Vietnam," September 20, 1966. The full text was printed as an
appendix (pp. 365-402) to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in 1970,
Vietnam Policy Proposals.
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/16
Worldwide Military Commitments, Part 1. Hearings before the Preparedness
Investigating Subcommittee, Senate Armed Services Committee, August 25-30,
1966. ii, 114 pp. Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Includes discussion of
what South Korea, the Phillippines, etc. were doing in Vietnam.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:M 59/11/pt.1
An Investigation of the U.S. Economic and Military Assistance Programs in Vietnam. Report of the House Committee on Government Operations, October 12, 1966. viii, 130 pp. Based on staff investigations in Vietnam, and extensive subcommittee hearings held both in Washington and in Vietnam, the transcripts of which probably were not published. The "Additional Views" on pp. 126-128, in which Donald Rumsfeld points out weaknesses in U.S. programs in Vietnam in language looking remarkably like recent criticisms of Rumsfeld's policies in Iraq, are amusing. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in two parts: front matter and pp. 1-89; pp. 90-130;
Supplemental Military Procurement and Construction Authorizations,
Fiscal Year 1967. Hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee
and the Subcommittee on Department of Defense of the Senate Appropriations
Committee, January 23, 24, 25, 1967. ii, 225, ix pp. Began with Secretary of Defense McNamara summarizing
the situation and prognosis in Vietnam. Text on Hathi Trust.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:P 94/6/967-2
Asia, the Pacific, and the United States. Hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, January 31, 1967, with Edwin O. Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan. iii, 76 pp. A lot of discussion of Vietnam. Interesting for the vigor with which Reischauer argues that the United States should not have supported the French against the Viet Minh, rejects the notion that a Communist Vietnam would allow itself to fall under Chinese domination, and rejects the idea that there is a danger of major Chinese expansionism in Asia (pp. 18-19). The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in two parts: front matter and pp. 1-45; pp. 46-76.
Fiscal Year 1967 Supplemental Authorization for Southeast Asia (H.R. 4515). Hearings of the House Armed Services Committee, February 2-16, 1967.
Washington, DC: GPO, 1967. ii, 45-291, i pp.
The text is online at Hathi Trust.
Y 4.Ar 5/2A:967-68/3
Conflicts between United States Capabilities and Foreign
Commitments. Hearing, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,
February 21, 1967. iii, 44 pp. General James M. Gavin, who among other things urged a halt to the bombing
of North Vietnam, and was surprisingly optimistic about the prospects a satisfactory agreement for peace
in Vietnam could be negotiated.
Y 4.F 76/2:F 76/21
Worldwide Military Commitments, Part 2. Hearings before the Preparedness
Investigating Subcommittee, Senate Armed Services Committee, February 21-March
2, 1967. iii, pp. 115-276. Military officers.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:M 59/11/pt.2
A Conversation with U Thant, Secretary General of the United Nations,
by Members of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate,
March 26, 1967 (published 1972). 5 pp.
Y 4.F 76/2:Ut 3 (fiche)
Economic Effect of Vietnam Spending. 2 vols. Hearings before the
Joint Economic Committee, April 24-27, 1967, and supporting materials. pp. v, 1-363, v, 365-1034. The
text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the
Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in 21 parts:
front
matter, including tables of contents for both volumes; text of volume I, pp. 1-39;
pp. 40-88;
pp. 89-138;
pp. 139-188;
pp. 189-238;
pp. 239-288;
pp. 289-338;
pp. 339-363; text of volume
II, pp. 365-388;
pp. 389-438;
pp. 439-487;
pp. 489-538;
pp. 539-588;
pp. 589-638;
pp. 639-688;
pp. 689-738;
pp. 739-788;
pp. 789-838;
pp. 839-888;
pp. 889-938;
pp. 939-988;
pp. 989-1034.
Y 4.Ec 7:V 67/v.1-2
Economic Effect of Vietnam Spending. Report of the Joint Economic Committee, together with supplementary views, July 7, 1967. iii, 9 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.
Modern Communications and Foreign Policy, Report No. 5, together with Part X of the hearings of the same title, part X subtitled Winning the Cold War: The U.S. Ideological Offensive. Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements, House Committee on International Affairs. The report, dated April 30, 1967, and released May 4, is vii, 13 pp. The hearing, held February 8 and 9, 1967, is iv, 216 pp. John Mecklin, "Problems of Communication in a Crisis Situation," pp. 19-21 of the hearing, is interesting. Mecklin had been Public Affairs Officer of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon from 1962 to 1964. His statement of the domino theory on p. 19: "The fall of China in 1949 compounded the problem, generating the so-called "domino theory" which was based almost entirely on psychological considerations, and still dominates U.S. thinking about Southeast Asia today. This was the theory--and it is almost certainly correct--that any further Communist gains would create shock waves of fear of the giant to the north that would destroy such will to resist as still existed in Southeast Asia. So the United States in 1950 went to the aid of the French against the Vietminh, rationalizing that French colonialism was the lesser evil. After the French collapsed in 1954, we shifted our support to Ngo Dinh Diem for the same reasons." The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in five parts: Report, and pp. i-iv, 1-19 of hearing; pp. 20-60 of hearing; pp. 61-100 of hearing; pp. 101-140 of hearing; pp. 141-180 of hearing; pp. 181-216 of hearing.
Hearings before the Special Subcommittee on the M-16 Rifle Program,
House Armed Services Committee, May 15-August 22, 1967. pp. 4431-5019.
Y 4.Ar 5/2a:967-68/19
Report of the Special Subcommittee on the M-16 Rifle Program, House Armed Services Committee, October 19, 1967. v, 52 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in two parts: pp. i-v, 5321-5366, and pp. 5367-5372.
Investigation of the Preparedness Program (a series of short
reports by the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, Senate Armed Services
Committee) (Washington: GPO, 1967). Relevant items in the series include:
no. 14, Situation in South Vietnam (8 pp.); no. 15, U.S. Air
Force Tactical Air Operations in Southeast Asia (12 pp.); no. 17, The
U.S. Army in South Vietnam (21 pp.); no. 18, The U.S. Navy and U.S.
Marine Corps in Southeast Asia (17 pp.); no. 19, Airlift and Sealift
to South Vietnam (11 pp.); no. 20, The Army's Rifle Procurement
and Distribution Program (23 pp.) (see also Hearing, April 5, 1967,
Army
rifle Procurement and Distribution Program (42 pp.).
Y 4.Ar 5/3:P 91/14 etc.
U.S. Commitments to Foreign Powers. Hearings before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, August 2, 16, 21, 23, September 19, 1967.
Quite a bit about the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. iv, 321, vi pp.
Y 4.F 76/2:F 76/23
Submission of the Vietnam Conflict to the United Nations. Hearings
before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, October 26, 27, November
2, 1967. iii, 206 pp. The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the
Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in five parts:
front
matter and pp. 1-39;
pp. 40-81;
pp. 82-123;
pp. 124-166;
pp. 167-206
(includes a subject index on pp. 203-206).
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/11
Statement of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara before the Senate Armed Services Committee
on the Fiscal Year 1969-73 Defense Program and 1969 Defense Budget. 1/22/68. vii, 220 pp. The section "Southeast Asia Operations"
(pp. 96-108) is optimistic, but not quite as optimistic as what was being said in Saigon at this time. Notable
for the brief reference on p. 102 to the presence of Chinese troops in North Vietnam, which as far as I can
recall was very seldom mentioned by American officials in this period. Same page gives dollar figures for Chinese and Soviet aid
to Hanoi. McNamara discussed the Order of Battle of Communist forces on pp. 103-5. Manpower issues relevant to the Vietnam War, including
"Project 100,000," are on pp. 186-90.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:D 36/5
Authorization for Military Procurement, Research and Development, Fiscal Year 1969,and Reserve Strength.
Hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee February 1-March 14, 1968. iv, 1202 pp.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:P 94/6/969
Nature of Revolution. Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, Feb 19-March 7, 1968, 200 pp.
Y 4.F 76/2:R 32
Stalemate in Vietnam. Report by Joseph S. Clark on study mission
to South Vietnam, February 1968. Senate Foreign Relations Committee print.
iii, 24 pp.
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/12
Land Reform in Vietnam. Report by the House Committee on Government Operations, March 5, 1968. House Report No. 1142. vii, 28 pp. Says the United States and the RVN should have been pushing land reform harder in South Vietnam. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
Foreign Assistance Act of 1968, Part 1--Vietnam. Hearings, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,
March 11, 12, 1968. iii, 233 pp.
Y 4.F 76/2:F 76/13/968/pt.1
Foreign Assistance Act of 1968, Part 4. Hearings, House Committee on Foreign Affairs,
March 26, 27, 28, April 1, 2, 1968. iv, 783 pp.
Y 4.F 76/1:F 76/28/968/pt.4
The text
is available online at Hathi Trust
Present Situation in Vietnam. Hearing with General David M. Shoup,
former Commandant, United States Marine Corps, before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, March 20, 1968. iii, 51 pp.
The text
has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the
Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/2/968
China and Vietnam War, Will History Repeat? Report by Joseph
S. Clark, March 29, 1968. Senate Foreign Relations Committee print. ii,
4 pp.
Y 4.F 76/2:C 44/6
Additional Procurement of M-16 Rifles. Hearings before the Special M-16 Rifle Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee, June 19-20, 1968. iii, 104 pp. Text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in two parts: front matter and pp. 1-51, and pp. 52-104.
U.S. Coast Guard Activities, Southeast Asia. Report of the House
Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. ii, 11 pp. Coast Guard activities in South Vietnam and
Thailand. Report of a tour conducted in August
1968. The text
has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the
Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
Y 4.M 53:C 63/19
Review of the Vietnam Conflict and its Impact on U.S. Military Commitments
Abroad. Report of the Special Subcommittee on National Defense Posture,
House Committee on Armed Services, August 24, 1968. vi, 84 pp. Text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive
of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in two parts:
front
matter and pp. 1-45, and
pp. 46-84.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:V 67/2
Vietnam and Paris Negotiations. Report of Mike Mansfield, September
1968. Senate Foreign Relations Committee print. v, 6 pp.
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/13
Measuring Hamlet Security in Vietnam. Report of John V. Tunney,
House Foreign Affairs Committee, Dec. 23, 1968. vii, 11 pp. Tunney believes
the Hamlet Evaluation System (HES) was extremely inaccurate; one section
in the report is titled "Garbage in,
Garbage Out." The text
has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive
of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
House Report 91-25
Authorization for Military Procurement, Research and Development, Fiscal Year 1970,and Reserve Strength.
Part 1: Hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee March 19-April 17, 1969. pp. i-iii, 1-1108.
Part 2: Hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee April 22-June 4, 1969. i-iv, 1109-2277, i-xv. The index to
both parts is at the end of part 2. General Westmoreland's statement that enemy forces had not begun making major use of Cambodian
sanctuaries until 1968 is on p. 355 of Part 1.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:P 94/6/970/pt.1, 2
Briefing by Secretary of State William P. Rogers. Hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, March 27, 1969. iii, 78 pp. U.S. foreign relations in general, not just Vietnam. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in two parts: front matter and pp. 1-38, and pp. 39-78.
The Military Budget and National Economic Priorities. Parts
1-3: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Economy in Government, Joint Economic
Committee, June 3-24, 1969. 992 pp. Part 4: Report, December
23, 1969. v, 18 pp.
Y 4.Ec 7:M 59/3/pt.1-4
U.S. Agreements and Commitments Abroad, Hearings before the Subcommittee
on U.S. Security Agreements and Commitments Abroad, Senate Foreign Relations
Committee
Y 4.F 76/2:Se 2/pt. 1, 2, 6
Part 6, Republic of Korea, hearings of February 22-24, 1970, has information on Korean involvement in Vietnam.
Military Supply Systems--1969. Hearings before the Military Operations
Subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations, November
20, 25, December 8, 1969.
Y 4.G 74/7:M 59/11/969
James F. Lowenstein and Richard M. Moose, Vietnam: December 1969. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staff Report. iii + 18 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
Investigation of the My Lai Incident. Hearings, April 15-June
22, 1970, before the Armed Services Investigating Subcommittee, House Armed
Services Committee. Washington: GPO, 1976. vi, 896 pp.
The full text has been placed online by the Library of Congress.
The text has also been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive
of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in multiple parts:
front
matter and pp. 1-44 (includes testimony of Maj. Patrick M. Trinkle, Sfc. Cecil D. Hall, Sfc. Clinton D. Stephens),
pp. 45-94
(Sfc. Clinton D. Stephens,
Capt. Ernest L. Medina, Dennis Vasquez, Capt. Dennis H. Johnson [who pled the Fifth a lot]),
pp. 95-146
(Capt. Dennis H. Johnson, Sgt. Roy D. Kirkpatrick, Maj. Glen D. Gibson, Michael C. Adcock),
pp. 147-196
(Michael C. Adcock, WO Charles H. Mansell, Jerry R. Culverhouse),
pp. 197-246
(Jerry R. Culverhouse, Lawrence M. Colburn, Lt. Hugh C. Thompson, Jr.),
pp. 247-296
(Lt. Hugh C. Thompson, Jr., Ronald L. Haeberle [also see below], Maj. Charles C. Calhoun, Maj. Frederick W. Watke,
Lt. Col. John L. Holladay),
pp. 297-346
(Lt. Col. John L. Holladay, Brig. Gen. George H. Young, Jr., Rev. Carl E. Creswell, Col. Oran K. Henderson,
Capt. Eugene M. Kotouc),
pp. 347-396
(Capt. Eugene M. Kotouc, Maj. Gen. Samuel W. Koster, Angel Rodriguez, William C. Riggs),
pp. 397-420
(William C. Riggs, Lt. Col. Francis R. Lewis, Capt. Ronald J. Keshel),
pp. 421-471
(Capt. Ronald J. Keshel, Charles Anistranski, Ronald L. Haeberle [also see below],
Col. Robert B. Luper, col. Jesmond D. Balmer, Jr.,
Maj. Robert W. McKnight),
pp. 472-521
(Maj. Robert W. McKnight, Col. Nels A. Parson, Ronald L. Haeberle),
pp. 522-571
(Ronald L. Haeberle, Lt. Col. David C. Gavin, Col. Mason J. Young, Col. Lawrence M. Jones, Jr., John C. Roberts,
Lt. Col. William D. Guinn, Jr.),
pp. 572-621
(Lt. Col. William D. Guinn, Jr., Maj. James H. Hancock, Jr., Dean C. Lind, Capt. Clarence J. Dawkins,
Maj. Thomas B. Earle, Jr.),
pp. 621-671
(Maj. Thomas B. Earle, Jr., James May, Lt. Gen. Charles A. Corcoran, Gen. Ralph E. Haines, Jr.,
Adm. John S. McCain, Lt. Col. William P. Doyle, Lenny B. Lagunoy, Sgt. Robert K. Gerberding),
pp. 672-721
(Sgt. Robert K. Gerberding, Richard K. Blackledge, Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Col. J.F.H. Cutrona,
Brig. Gen. L.V. Greene, Lt. Gen. Frank T. Mildren, Col. L.H. Williams),
pp. 722-771
(Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Col. J.F.H. Cutrona,
Lt. Gen. Frank T. Mildren, Col. L.H. Williams, Ambassador william E. Colby, Maj. Gen. Albert E. Milloy,
Maj. Charled Mitchell, Maj. John T. Pauli, Lt. Gen. Melvin Zais),
pp. 772-823
(Maj. Gen. Albert E. Milloy, Maj. John T. Pauli, Lt. Gen. Melvin Zais, Col. K.B. Barlow,
Master Sergeant Suhr, Brig. Gen. George H. Young, Jr., Lt Gen. Robet E. Cushman, Jr.)
pp. 824-874
(Lt Gen. Robet E. Cushman, Jr., Gen. William C. Westmoreland, Col. Robert M. Cook),
pp. 875-896
(Col. Robert M. Cook, Lt. Col; George Ottaway, Jr.; Index).
Y 4.Ar 5/2a:975-76/47
Investigation of the My Lai Incident. July 15, 1970 report by
the My Lai Incident Subcommittee of the Armed Services Investigating Subcommittee of
the House Armed Services Committee. The full text has been placed online by the
Library of Congress. Text has also been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive
of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in two parts:
front
matter and pp. 1-26, and
pp. 27-53.
Y 4.Ar 5/2:M 99
Progress of the Pacification Program. February 9, 1970 report
of a special subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, which
visited South Vietnam in January 1970. iii +
10 pp. The
text has been placed on-line in the
Virtual Vietnam Archive
of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
Y 4.Ar 5/2a:969-70/38
Vietnam: Policy and Prospects, 1970. Hearings of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee on Civil Operations and Rural Development Support in
Vietnam, February 17, 18, 19, 20; March 3, 14, 17, and 19, 1970. vii, 750
pp. Includes testimony of William Colby, John Paul Vann, and others (a number
of whom had served in Vietnam at province level and below), on
topics including the PHOENIX Program and the case of Tran Ngoc Chau. The text has
been placed online by Charles Judson
Harwood, Jr., in HTML format, allowing keyword search. (To figure out what page of the original
you are on, look for the page numbers, placed rather unobtrusively in the text looking
like this {p.14}.)
hearing of
February 17, 1970, pp. 1-86 (Ambassador William E. Colby);
hearing of
February 18, 1970, pp. 87-162 (mostly John Paul Vann and Hawthorne Mills, province
senior adviser, Tuyen Duc province);
hearing of
February 19, 1970, pp. 163-256;
hearing of
February 20, 1970, pp. 257-444;
hearing of
March 3, 1970, pp. 445-508;
hearing of
March 4, 1970, pp. 509-568;
hearing of
March 17, 1970, pp. 569-634;
hearing of
March 19, 1970, pp. 635-700; and
Appendix,
pp. 701-748 (Appendix I: Ambassador William E. Colby, "Statement for the Record on the Administrative
Aspects of Pacification and Development," "Statement for the Record on the Development
Aspects of Pacification and Development," "Statement for the Record on the Security
Aspects of Pacification and Development," and "Statement for the Record on the Phung Hoang Program
(Phoenix)." Appendix II: Statement of Former U.S. Senator Joseph S. Clark . . .).
pp. 135-154
have also been placed on-line in .pdf format in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the
Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
Y 4.F76/2:V 67/17
Authorization for Military Procurement, Research and Development,
FY 71, and Reserve Strength. Part 1. Hearings of February 20 - March
5, 1970, Senate Armed Services Committee. ii + 824 + xxiv pp.
pp. 119-26: General Wheeler on Vietnamization.
p. 179: incremental and total costs of the war, FY 1969, 1970.
pp. 447-52: General Westmoreland on Vietnam.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:P 94/6/971/pt.1
Military Posture and Authorization of Appropriations, FY 71, for
DOD Procurement, Part 1. Hearings of the House Committee on Armed Services,
March 3 - April 8, 1970. ii + pp. 6811-7907.
Y 4.Ar 5/2a:969-70/53/pt.1
Impact of the War in Southeast Asia on the U.S. Economy.
Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 15-August
13, 1970. pp. iii, 1-121, iv, 123-458. Includes some material not
dealing with the nominal topic, including: David Schoenbrun on the historical
background of the war (pp. 267-98); Daniel Ellsberg (plus some further comments
by Schoenbrun) on topics including Tonkin Gulf, the case of Tran Ngoc Chau, and the need
for the U.S. to get out of Vietnam (pp. 298-346). The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Virtual Vietnam Archive of the
Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in ten parts:
front
matter and pp. 1-44,
pp. 45-94,
pp. 95-144,
pp. 145-194,
pp. 195-244,
pp. 245-294,
pp. 295-344,
pp. 345-394,
pp. 395-444,
pp. 445-458.
Y 4.F 76/2:As 4/11/pt.1-2
Department of Defense Appropriations for 1971, part 6, hearings
before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. Testimony
of May 4, 1970, by Secretary of Defense Laird and CJCS Wheeler, on the
Cambodian incursion (pp. 789-804), is interesting.
Y 4.Ap 6/1:D 36/5/971/pt.6
Moral and Military Aspects of the War in Southeast Asia. Hearings
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, May 7, 12, 1970. iii, 108 pp.
The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the
Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in three parts:
pp. i-iii, 1-37,
pp. 38-77, and
pp. 78-108.
Y 4.F 76/2:As 4/12
Student Views toward U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia.
Hearings before an Ad Hoc Committee of the House of Representatives,
May 21, 22, 1970. viii + 272 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the
Virtual Vietnam Archive of the
Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in four parts:
front matter and pp. 1-44,
pp. 44-90,
pp. 91-184,
pp. 185-277.
Y 4.F 76/1:St 9
Nomination of Adm. Thomas H. Moorer to be Chairman, Joint Chiefs
of Staff. Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, June 4, 5,
1970. ii + 37 pp. Includes discussion of Tonkin Gulf; Moorer strongly defended
the reality of the August 4 incident.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:M 78
United States Involvement in Southeast Asia. Report of the House
Select Committee on United States Involvement in Southeast Asia, July 6,
1970. 164 pp. Quite a bit on Con Son, especially on pp. 37-48.
The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the
Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in four parts:
pp. 1-52,
pp. 53-99,
pp. 101-150, and
pp. 151-164.
H. Rpt. 91-1276
Paul S. Taylor, Communist Strategy and Tactics of Employing Peasant
Dissatisfaction of Land Tenure in Vietnam. August 1970 report prepared
for the Foreign Operations and Government Information Subcommittee, House
Committee on Government Operations. A good deal on the historical background of Communist
land reform, not very accurate.
The text
has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the
Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
Y 4.G 74/7:V 67/2
Military Supply Systems: 1970. Hearings before the Military Operations
Subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations, August 4-5,
1970.
Y 4.G 74/7:M 59/11/970
Commercial (Commodity) Import Program for Vietnam, Followup Investigation.
October 8, 1970 report of the House Committee on Government Operations.
The text
has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the
Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
H. Rpt. 91-1583
Military Supply Systems: Lessons from the Vietnam Experience.
October 8, 1970 report of the House Committee on Government Operations. v, 61 pp.
Text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the
Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in two parts:
pp. i-v, 1-30, and
pp. 31-61.
H. Rpt. 91-1586
Civilian Medical Program for Vietnam (Followup Investigation).
October 8, 1970 report of the House Committee on Government Operations. v, 33 pp. The
text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam
Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in three parts:
pp. i-v, 1-11,
pp. 12-26, and
pp. 27-33.
H. Rpt. 91-1584
The Port Situation in Vietnam, Followup Investigation. October
12, 1970 report of the House Committee on Government Operations. v, 25 pp.
The text
has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam
Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.
H. Rpt. 91-1595
Investigation into Electronic Battlefield Program. Hearings of
the Electronic Battlefield Subcommittee of the Preparedness Investigating
Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee, November 18-24, 1970.
iii, 221 pp. The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam
Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University. Start by
going to Front matter and pp. 1-47,
then change the "A" at the end of the URL to B, C, D, and E to get the later pages.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:B 32
Supplemental Foreign Assistance Authorization, 1970. Hearings
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, December 10-11, 1970.
iii + 133 pp. Testimony by Secretary of State Rogers, Secretary of
Defense Laird. Subjects include the Son Tay raid, Cambodia, and Don
Luce's press credentials.
Y 4.F 76/2:F 76/27
Statement of Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird before the House Armed Services Committee on the FY 1972-1976
defense program and the 1972 defense budget, March 9, 1971. vi, 191 pp.
D 1.2:B 85/972-76
Foreign Assistance & Related Agencies Appropriation for 1972.
Hearings March 24 to June 30, 1971, by a subcommittee of the House Appropriations
Committee. ii+832+xiv pp. Includes military use of Food for
Peace (pp. 19-28) and Laos and Cambodia (pp. 27-28).
Y 4.Ap 6/1:F 76/3/972/pt.1
Hearings on Military Posture and H.R. 3818 and H.R. 8687. Part 1.
Hearings of the House Armed Services Committee. Note testimony April 26,
1971, by Colonel Molinelli, of the 101st Airborne Division, about Lam Son
719 (pp. 3117-3130); and testimony May 7, 1971 by Warren Nutter, on various
war-related issues (pp. 3635-3671), including figures on the incremental
cost of the war (p. 3670).
Y 4.Ar 5/2a:971-72/9/pt.1
Lester L. Wolff, Report of Special Study Mission to Asia. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, June 21, 1971. vii, 37 pp. Report of Representative Wolff on a trip to Asia in December 1970, rather critical in tone. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.
Impact of the Vietnam War. Prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee by the Congressional Research Service, June 30, 1971. vii, 36 pp. This mainly
deals with the impact on Indochina, rather than on the US.
The text
has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam
Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/19 (fiche)
Department of Defense Appropriations for 1972. Hearings before
the Subcommittee on Department of Defense, House Committee on Appropriations.
Includes interesting testimony of April and September 1971, by generals
including Bruce Palmer, Jr., Vice Chief of Staff, US Army, on Army morale
and discipline problems. Figures on fraggings were mysteriously lower in
part 9, pp. 583-85, than in part 3, p. 473.
Y 4.Ap 6/1:D 36/5/972/pt.9
U.S. Assistance Programs in Vietnam. Hearings of the Foreign
Operations and Government Information Subcommittee of the House Committee
on Government Operations, July 15, 16, 19, 21; August 2, 1971. Includes
considerable information on the Phoenix Program [see Vietnam: Anthology
and Guide to a Television History, pp. 254-57, for some relevant excerpts].
Testimony by Barton Osborne telling shocking (and in my opinion sometimes questionable)
stories about Phoenix; and by
William Colby, Don Luce, Robert H. Nooter of AID, and others.
Y 4.G 74/7:V 67/4
Vietnam and the Hidden U.S. Subsidy (Inequitable Currency
Exchange Rates). Report of the House Committee on Government
Operations, December 16, 1971. v, 26 pp.
The
text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam
Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.
House Report No. 92-760
National Security Act Amendment. Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, March 28, 30, April 24, 1972, on S. 2224, a bill to give the Congress greater access to CIA information and intelligence analysis. iii, pp. pp. i-iii, 1-35; pp. 36-70; pp. 71-105; pp. 106-139.
Full Committee Hearing and Consideration of H. Res. 918,
A Resolution of Inquiry Concerning the Bombing in Vietnam by the
United States Government. pp. 9037-9176. Hearing before the House Committee on
Armed Services,
April 18, 1972, on a resolution submitted by Bella Abzug, an anti-war representative.
A lot of interesting information, on all sorts of issues--air war over North Vietnam and
over the Ho Chi Minh Trail, aircraft procurement and development,
budgets, military personnel strengths, munitions expenditures, etc.
p. 9144 gives tonnages (pretty
high) of allied air and ground munitions by month,
1966-71. p. 9071 gives low figures for yearly throughput of
Ho Chi Minh Trail, Nov 1968 to Oct 1971 (9,500 tons for last 12 months
of that). Slightly more than a
third of this publication (pp. 9065-9120) is the text of a presentation
Secretary of the Air Force Robert C. Seamans Jr. had given the committee
March 2, 1972, on the Air Force's proposed budget for FY 1973.
Text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in three parts:
pp. 9037-9086,
pp. 9087-9136, and
pp. 9137-9176.
Y 4.Ar 5/2a:971-72/44
Foreign Assistance and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1973,
part 2. Hearings of the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Related
Appropriations, House Appropriations Committee, April 18-May 18, 1972.
ii, 1359, xvii pp. There is a lot of testimony on Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia,
and Thailand by Roderic L. O'Connor, Marshall Green, and Robert H. Nooter
on pp. 143-420, a little by William Rogers on pp. 1298-1321.
Y 4.Ap 6/1:F 76/3/973/pt.2
Foreign Assistance Act of 1972. Senate Foreign Relations Committee report, May 31, 1972. Senate Report 92-823. 39 pp. Includes a provision (p. 2) calling for a complete cutoff of U.S. participation in the Vietnam War, if there is a cease-fire and full resolution of the problem of U.S. POWs. The table between pages 38 and 39, showing sub-categories within U.S. aid for Vietnam in FY 1973, is interesting. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.
Causes, Origins, and Lessons of the Vietnam War. Hearings before
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, May 9-11, 1972. Part or all of this has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive
of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University: May 9, with Leslie Gelb and James C. Thomson:
pp. 1-46;
pp. 47-84. May 10, with Arthur Schlesinger,
Jr., and Noam Chomsky:
pp. 59-111;
pp. 112-141. For the hearing of May 11,
dealing with early US involvement in Vietnam, in the 1940s, with
testimony by former OSS officer Frank White, and the Chief of the Division of Southeast Asian Affairs in the
State Department from 1943 to 1947, Abbott Low Moffat, and relevant documents,
see above.
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/24
Vietnam: May 1972. A report by James G. Lowenstein and Richard
M. Moose, of the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, after
a trip to Vietnam May 23-June 5, 1972. viii, 32 pp.
The
text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam
Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/18/972
Nomination of Maj. Gen. Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr., to the Rank of
General, U.S. Army. Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee,
October 6, 1972. iii + 23 pp. Includes Haig's view of the Vietnam War and
the Lavelle case.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:H 12
U.S. Assistance Programs in Vietnam. Report of the House
Committee on Government Operations, October 17, 1972. v, 107 pp.
(See above, same title, for the hearings on which the report was based.) Quite a bit on
land reform, prisons, CORDS, and the Phoenix Program. The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam
Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in three sections:
front
matter and pp. 1-46,
pp. 47-97,
pp. 107, 99-107.
Page 107 appears to have been duplicated, and page 98 omitted, in the online version.
House Report no. 92-1610
Hearings before the Special Subcommittee on Disciplinary Problems
in the U.S. Navy, House Armed Services Committee, November 20-December
18, 1972. 1153, v pp.
Ar 5/2a:973-74/13
European Reactions to U.S. Policies in Vietnam. Hearings before
the Subcommittee on Europe, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, January
4, 17, 1973. vi + 65 pp. The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam
Archive of the Vietnam Project
at Texas Tech University, in two parts:
front
matter and pp. 1-30, and
pp. 31-65.
Y 4.F 76/1:V 67/3
Final Report to the Congress of the Secretary of Defense Hon.
Melvin R. Laird. Hearing, House Armed Services Committee,
January 8, 1973. 132 pp.
Y 4.Ar 5/2a:973-74/1
The Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam. A compendium of articles and documents on Communist atrocities, published by the Subcommittee on Internal Security, Senate Judiciary Committee, 1972. iii, 123, x pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in four parts: front matter and pp. 1-31 (includes Joseph Buttinger pp. 11-, Hoang Van Chi pp. 14-, Bernard Fall pp. 23-, Nguyen Manh Tuong pp. 26-), pp. 32-65 (includes Anita Lauve Nutt pp. 34-, Stephen Hosmer pp. 45-), pp. 66-99 (includes Douglas Pike pp. 88-), and pp. 101-123, i-x (includes P.J. Honey pp. 108-).
The Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam. Part II: The Myth of No
Bloodbath. Hearings of the Subcommittee on Internal Security, Senate
Judiciary Committee, January 5, 1973, with Daniel Teodoru (an amateur scholar)
arguing that the stories of a bloodbath in North Vietnam in connection
with the land reform of the 1950s are valid. ii + 55 pp. The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam
Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in two parts:
front
matter and pp. 1-29, and
pp. 31-55.
Y 4.J 89/2:C 73/64/pt. 2
Testimony of D. Gareth Porter. Hearing of the Subcommittee on
Internal Security, Senate Judiciary Committee, July 27, 1973, with Porter
arguing that there was no bloodbath in North Vietnam in the mid 1950s.
ii + 32 pp. The
text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam
Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.
Y 4.J 89/2:P 83/2
Nomination of Henry A. Kissinger. Hearings of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the nomination of Henry A. Kissinger to be Secretary of State.
Part 1: Hearings of September 7, 10, 11, and 14, 1973. pp. i-iv, 1-262.
Y 4.F 76/2:K 64/pt.1
Part 2: Executive Hearings of September 10 and 17, 1973,
made public October 4, 1973. pp. i-iii, 263-353. Devoted mainly to Kissinger's role in warrantless wiretapping.
Y 4.F 76/2:K 64/pt.2
The Treatment of Political Prisoners in South Vietnam by the Government
of the Republic of South Vietnam. Hearings of the Subcommittee
on Asian and Pacific Affairs, House Foreign Affairs Committee, September
13, 1973. iii, 62 pp. The witnesses included Fred Branfman
and Don Luce.
Y 4.F 76/1:P 93/6
U.S. Nonmilitary Assistance to Southeast Asia. Hearing before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations, November 12, 1973. iii, 110 pp. Text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in three parts: front matter and pp. 1-37, pp. 38-77, and pp. 78-110.
Full Committee Consideration of H.R. 12565, to Authorize Appropriations during the Fiscal Year 1974 for Procurement of Aircraft, Missiles, Naval Vessels, Tracked Combat Vehicles, and other Weapons and Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation for the Armed Forces, and to Authorize Construction at Certain Installations, and for Other Purposes; Briefing on Diego Garcia. Hearing, House Armed Services Committee, March 18-19, 1974. Includes (pp. 38-53) considerable detail on U.S. military aid to Vietnam: figures going back to 1966, and very detailed figures for 1973. Also much more wide-ranging discussion of Vietnam than the title would lead one to expect, with Guy Gran (pp. 60-88), Elbridge Durbrow (pp. 88-99). Durbrow submitted (pp. 93-96) two letters by Reed Irvine complaining of media bias. At the end, Rep. Pike proposed that the section of the bill authorizing $474 million in additional military aid for Southeast Asia be deleted; this motion was defeated, 8-27 (p. 271). The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in six parts: pp. 1-47, pp. 48-97, pp. 98-148, pp. 149-198, pp. 199-248, and pp. 249-272.
Political Prisoners in South Vietnam and the Philippines.
Hearings of the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, House Foreign
Affairs Committee, May 1, June 5, 1974. iii, 127 pp. The witnesses
included Fred Branfman, D. Gareth Porter, and Benedict Kerkvliet. The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam
Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in four parts:
pp. i-iii, 1-29,
pp. 30-62,
pp. 63-95, and
pp. 96-127.
Y 4.F 76/1:P 93/7
Fiscal Year 1976 and July–September 1976 Transition Period Authorization for Military Procurement, Research and Development,
and Active Duty, Selected Reserve, and Civilian Personnel Strengths, Part 1, Authorizations. Hearing before the Senate Committee on
Armed Services, February 5, 1975. Requests for military aid to the RVN for FY 1976 and FY 1977 on p. 166. Considerable detail on 1974 US aid to RVN,
Chinese and Soviet aid to DRV, Communist strength in South Vietnam, on pp. 340-344.
Y4.Ar 5/3:P94/6/976/pt.1
Reassessment of U.S. Foreign Policy. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Future Foreign Policy Research and Development, House International Relations Committee, July 15-24, 1975. v, A lot of discussion of the Vietnam War. Most of the text (I think a few pages may be missing) has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in four parts: front matter and pp. 2-46 (W. Averell Harriman, Hans Morgenthau, Dean Rusk), pp. 47-94 (Dean Rusk, Maxwell Taylor, William P. Bundy), pp. 95-142 (William P. Bundy, Maxwell Taylor, Henry Cabot Lodge, and George Ball), pp. 95-142 (Henry Cabot Lodge, George Ball, and some documentary appendices, including Sam Adams's article "Vietnam Cover-Up: Playing War with Numbers," and the views of the Army, especially Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, about U.S. intervention in Indochina in 1954).
U.S. Trade Embargo of Vietnam: Church Views. Hearing before the
Subcommittee on International Trade and Commerce, House Committee on International
Relations, November 17, 1975, on proposals that the U.S. embargo on trade
with Vietnam be ended.
Y 4.In 8/16:V 67
Human Rights in Vietnam. Hearings before the Subcommittee on International Organizations, House Committee on International Relations, June 16 and 21, July 26, 1977. vi, 229 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in multiple parts: pp. i-vi, 1-15; . . . pp. 76-95 (Prepared Statement of Nguyen Van Coi, Former Provincial Representative of Quang Duc Province); pp. 96-115; pp. 116-135; pp. 136-155 (testimony of Nguyen Cong Huan, July 26, begins on p. 145; note comments on religious repression, with list of people arrested, on p. 151); pp. 156-176 (hearing ends on p. 167; Appendix 1, Theodore Jacqueney, "They Are Us, We Were Vietnamese" [Worldview, April 1977], which contains details on the post-1975 fates of various named Vietnamese such at Tran Ngoc Chau and Tran Huu Thanh, begins on p. 168); pp. 177-196, pp. 197-216, pp. 217-229,
A short account (usually at least 200 words) of the citation for each
winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam can be found in
Y 4.V 64/4:M 46/3/863-978
Y 4.V 64/4:V 67/5/964-72
The Lessons of Vietnam. Testimony of Clark Clifford and George
Ball before the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, House Committee
on Foreign Affairs, April 29, 1985.
Y 4.F 76/1:V 67/7
The Plight of the Montagnards. Hearing before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, March 10, 1998.
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.105-465
Hearing on the Status of Department of Veterans Affairs Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Programs. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, March 11, 2004. Witness List with links to the statements of the witnesses, who included at least one PTSD sceptic, Sally Satel, M.D., resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute.
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