American Decades
"Aggression from the North"
Paper
By: Dean Rusk
Date: February 27, 1965
Source: Rusk, Dean. "Aggression from the North." State Department White Paper on Vietnam, February 27, 1965. Reproduced in CNN Cold War Historical Documents. Available online at http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/11/documents/... ; website home page: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/ (accessed April 2, 2003).
About the Author: Dean Rusk (1909–1994) was born in Cherokee County, Georgia. In 1940, the Rhodes Scholar entered the army as an infantry captain and rose to the rank of colonel. In 1946, he joined the State Department and was appointed assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs in 1950. In 1961, President Lyndon B. Johnson (served 1963–1969) appointed him...
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1960's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- Berlin Crisis
- The Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society
- "U-2 Photography of Soviet MRBM Site in Cuba, October 1962"
- "The Desolate Year"
- "Smoker on the Street Largely Defiant"
- "The Great Society"
- "Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy"
- "Aggression from the North"
- Martin Luther King, Jr
- Federal Role in Traffic Safety: Hearings Before the Senate Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the Committee on Government Operations
- Three Years in Mississippi
- "Mutual Deterrence"
- Codes of Conduct and the My Lai Massacre
- "President Lyndon B. Johnson's Address to the Nation Announcing Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam and Reporting His Decision Not to Seek Reelection"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
