Library Research Guide for U.S. Foreign Relations

Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975
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Descriptions of included collections

Includes much material that does not directly concern the Vietnam War:

• Documents of the National Security Council, 1947-1977, Basic Set
• Documents of the National Security Council, 1st -9th Supplements
  • Includes: NSC Policy Papers; NSC Background Documents; "P" Files; "Mill" Papers; NSC Actions; National Security Action, Study, Decision and Review Memoranda; Presidential Review Memoranda, Presidential Directives; National Security Directives; National Security Study and Decision Directives; NSC Intelligence Directives.
• Minutes of Meetings of the National Security Council with Special Advisory Reports, and 1st - 4th Supplements, 1947-1979
• Henry A. Kissinger Telephone Conversations on World Affairs, 1969-1974
• John F. Kennedy National Security Files, 1961-1963
• Lyndon B. Johnson National Security Files, 1963-1969
  • Memos of the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs: McGeorge Bundy to President Johnson, 1963-1966
• Richard M. Nixon National Security Files, 1969-1974
• Gerald R. Ford National Security Files, 1974-1977
• Crises in Panama and the Dominican Republic: National Security Files and NSC Histories

Lists, indexes and online guides to the microfilm collections are sometimes useful for browsing even though the material is available for searching in Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975

Index to Documents of the National Security Council. Bethesda, Md.: University Publications of America, 1994, 721 p.
Serves as cumulative index to the microfilm collections (see below):
   Documents of the National Security Council (basic through 4th suppl.)
   Minutes of meetings of the National Security Council (basic through 1st suppl.).
Online Version
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Documents of the National Security Council Basic and 9 supplements (Microfilm)
Online Guide 5^th Supplement  --  Online Guide 6^th Supplement  --  Online Guide 7^th Supplement  --  Online Guide 8^th Supplement  --  Online Guide 9^th Supplement

Minutes of Meetings of the National Security Council. Basic and 4 supplements (Microfilm)
Online Guide 2^nd Supplement  --  Online Guide 3^rd Supplement  --  Online Guide 4^th Supplement

NSC Meetings: Truman Administration (1947-1953).  List. Particular NSC documents can be searched in the Declassified Documents Reference System.

A reference guide to United States Department of State special files, by Gerald K. Haines. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985, xliv, 393 p.
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--Pp. 38-62 includes a list of numbered NSC documents through Eisenhower's presidency

NSC Presidential directives
   Guide 
   Presidential Directives and Executive Orders (Federation of American Scientists).
   Presidential Directives on National Security from Truman to Clinton (Digital National Security Archive)

National Security Council Project Oral History Roundtables

• The Nixon Administration National Security Council
• International Economic Policymaking and the National Security Council
• The Bush Administration National Security Council
• The Role of the National Security Advisers
• Arms Control Policy and the National Security Council
• China Policy and the National Security Council
• The Clinton Administration National Security Council

Microfilm (also contained in Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975, above)

The online guides for the microfilm collections are sometimes useful for browsing even though the material is available for searching in Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975

Documents of the National Security Council Basic and 9 supplements (Microfilm)
Online Guide 5^th Supplement  --  Online Guide 6^th Supplement  --  Online Guide 7^th Supplement  --  Online Guide 8^th Supplement  --  Online Guide 9^th Supplement

Includes: NSC Policy Papers; NSC Background Documents; "P" Files; "Mill" Papers; NSC Actions; National Security Action, Study, Decision and Review Memoranda; Presidential Review Memoranda, Presidential Directives; National Security Directives; National Security Study and Decision Directives; NSC Intelligence Directives.
More information in the introduction of the Sixth Supplement."

Minutes of Meetings of the National Security Council. Basic and 4 supplements (Microfilm)
Online Guide 2^nd Supplement
Online Guide 3^rd Supplement
Online Guide 4^th Supplement

John F. Kennedy National Security Files, 1961-1963 (Microfilm) (Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975)
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The Lyndon B. Johnson National Security Files, 1963-1969 (Microfilm) (Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975)
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Memos of the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy to President Johnson, 1963-1966 (Microfilm:
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Nixon National Security Files (Microfilm) (Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975)
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Vietnam: National Security Council Histories (SRLF) (Microfilm)
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