UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) ‘Whose Vietnam?’ - ‘Lessons learned’ and the dynamics of memory in American foreign policy after the Vietnam War Beukenhorst, H.B. Publication date 2012 Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Beukenhorst, H. B. (2012). ‘Whose Vietnam?’ - ‘Lessons learned’ and the dynamics of memory in American foreign policy after the Vietnam War. General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. 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Memo, Dolan to Clark, April 25, 1983, folder ‘Central America Speech Congress 27 April, 1983’, Box 2, Clark, William P: Files, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (RRPL). Article draft by Richard Nixon to Clark, April 25, 1983, folder ‘Central America Speech Congress 25 April, 1983’, Box 2, Clark, William P: Files, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (RRPL). Speechdraft Presidential Address, (Dolan) April 17, 1983 12.00 p.m., folder ‘Dolan, Anthony Files speech drafts to Central America Address 27 April 1983’, Box 21, Dolan, Anthony Files, 1981-89, Series I: Speechdrafts 1981-1989, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (RRPL). Speechdraft Presidential Address to Joint Session of Congress, (Dolan) April 20, 1983, 7:00 a.m. and Letter, ‘Dolan to Casey’, April 21, 1983, both in: folder ‘Dolan, Anthony Files speech drafts to Central America Address 27 April 1983’ Box 21, Dolan, Anthony Files, 1981-89, Series I: Speechdrafts 1981- 1989, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (RRPL). Memo, Dolan to McFarlane, April 22, 1983, folder ‘Dolan, Anthony Files speech drafts to Central America Address 27 April 1983’, Box 21, Dolan, Anthony Files, 1981-89, Series I: Speechdrafts 1981-1989, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (RRPL). Speechdraft Presidential Address (Parvin edit), April 26, 1983, 8:00 a.m., folder ‘Dolan, Anthony Files speech drafts to Central America Address 27 April 1983’, Box 21, Dolan, Anthony Files, 1981-89, Series I: Speechdrafts 1981- 1989, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (RRPL). Memo Dolan to Baker, April 26, 1983, folder ‘Dolan, Anthony Files speech drafts to Central America Address 27 April 1983’, Box 21, Dolan, Anthony Files, 1981-89, Series I: Speechdrafts 1981-1989, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (RRPL). Partially handwritten speech-draft (Reagan) Central America speech, folder ‘SP 283- 33 (133556) [1 of 4]’, Box 81 SP-Speeches, WHORM: Subject File, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (RRPL). 255 Memo, Gergen to NSC-staff, April 25, 1983, folder ‘SP 283-22 (133556) [3 of 4], Box 81 SP-Speeches, WHORM: Subject File, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (RRPL). Memo, Duberstein to McFarlane, April 25, 1983, ID # 143210, folder ‘SP 283-22 (141936-168147), Box 81 SP-Speeches, WHORM: Subject File, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (RRPL). ‘Responses to speech’, folder ‘SP 283-22 (168198-end), Box 81 SP-Speeches, WHORM: Subject File, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (RRPL). Memo Duberstein to Meese, Baker, Deaver, McFarlane, Gergen, Darman, Elliot, plus draft Newt Gingrich, October 26, 1983, folder ‘181858 [3 of 4], Box SP 818 ‘Grenada Lebanon 10/27/83’, WHORM: Subject File, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (RRPL). Memo, Hill (State) to McFarlane, October 27, 1983, folder ‘181858 [4 of 4]’, Box SP 818 ‘Grenada/Lebanon 10/27/83’, WHORM: Subject File, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (RRPL). Letter, Ronald Reagan to Richard Nixon, June 1, 1983, ID # 147839, Box 2, CO 046, WHORM: Subject File, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (RRPL). _________________________________ National Security Archive at George Washington University and on-line (selection) at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20061001/index.htm Gregg, Donald P. Office of the Vice President Memorandum: Anti-Guerrilla Operations in Central America, March 17, 1983, 1983. Hill, M. C. United States Department of State Memorandum: Paper on Rebutting Common Misperceptions of our Central America Policy, May 2, 1983, 1983. Johnson, David. United States Senate; Memorandum: Issues Under the War Powers and Arms Export Control Acts Raised by U.S. Military Presence in El Salvador, February 23, 1981.1981. Kelly, John H. United States Department of State; Memorandum Opinion Polls: Many View El Salvador as Drawn-Out, no-Win Situation, May 5, 1983, 1983. Marsh, John O., Jr. United States Army; Office of the Secretary; Memorandum: Sensitive Department of Defense Support for Intelligence Activities, May 9, 1983, 1983. ———. United States Department of Defense; Office of the Secretary; Memorandum: Sensitive DOD Support to CIA Special Activities, May 9, 1983, 1983. ‘The Report of the DoD Commission on Beirut International Airport Terrorist Attack’, October 23, 1983. Rodriguez, Felix I. Office of the Vice President; Report;Tactical Task Force: Concept of Operation for a Relatively Small and Efficient Unit for Deployment in Central America with a Minimum of Foreign Advisors, March 4, 1982, 1982. Reagan, Ronald W. U.S. Policy Initiatives to Improve Prospects for [Excised] El Salvador, 1983. _________________________________ 256 Interviews (not published in print) Alexander Haig, interview on Newsmax.tv by Ashley Martella, as posted on December 22, 2009 on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o95GXf3_ms0 Robert McFarlane, interview by Barbara Walters, ABC 20/20, March, 1987. Ernest May, interview with the author, February 9, 2007 James A. Baker III, interview with the author, February 12, 2007. Roman Popadiuk, interview with the author, February 20, 2007. Wayne Gilchrest, interview with the author, February 21, 2007. Thomas Pickering, interview with the author, June 12, 2009. Anthony Lake, interview with the author, June 15, 2009. _________________________________ Speeches and statements Ronald Reagan Presidential Library website Ronald Reagan, ‘A Time for Choosing,’ October 27, 1964. ———, ‘We will be as a City upon a Hill’ Conservative Political Action Conference, Washington D.C., January 25, 1974. ———, ‘Remarks on presenting the Medal of Honor to Master Sergeant Roy P. Benavidez’, February 24, 1981. ———, ‘Press conference with the President’, March 6, 1981. ———, ‘Address at Commencement Exercises at the United States Military Academy’, May 27, 1981. ———, ‘Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida’ March 8, 1983. ———, ‘Address before a joint session of the Congress on Central America’, April 27, 1983. ———, ‘Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters on Domestic and Foreign Policy Issues’, May 4, 1983. ———, ‘Address to the nation on events in Lebanon and Grenada’, October 27, 1983. George H.W.Bush Presidential Library website George H.W. Bush, ‘Inaugural Address’, January 20, 1989. ———, ‘Remarks to the American Legislative Exchange Council’, March 1, 1991. ———, ‘Remarks to Liberty Mutual Insurance Employees in Dover, N.H.’, January 15, 1992. Other Jimmy Carter, ‘Commencement speech at Notre Dame University’, May 22, 1977, as published on the website of The American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ 257 ‘Major Points in Testimony before Senate Panel in Haig Confirmation’, The New York Times, January 14, 1981. Oliver North, ‘Opening Statement to Joint Iran Contra Congressional Committee’, delivered July 9, 1987, as published on http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/olivernorthfrancontrahearing.htm ‘Excerpts From President's News Conference on Crisis in Gulf’, The New York Times, December 1, 1990. “Excerpts from Bush News Conference” The New York Times, March 2, 1991. ________________________________ Surveys ‘Veterans and public look back on Vietnam War’, ABC News-Harris Survey, November 10, 1980. ‘Confidence in institutions’, ABC News-Harris Survey, November 24, 1980. ‘Reagan overall rating up, but will it last?’ The Harris Survey, November 10, 1983. ‘Public backs Reagan on Grenada, skeptical about Lebanon’, The Harris Survey, November 3, 1983. ‘Concern Mounts Over Reagan’s Military Action’, The Harris Survey, November 7, 1983. ‘Reagan’s rating slipping from Grenada levels’ The Harris Survey, November 28, 1983. ‘Americans say reporters should have been allowed in Grenada’ The Harris Survey, December 26, 1983.