Primary Source Documents

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PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS

ACTS OF CONGRESS AND CONGRESSIONAL REPORTS

NSC Memo on Fallout Shelters (1960) ....227

Lyndon B. Johnson Reports on Asian Trip (1961) .............228

United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 (1967)............230

FBI Cable Regarding Racial Disturbances (1968) .............230

General Wheeler's Report on Tet Offensive to Lyndon B. Johnson (1968) ......232

War Powers Resolution (1973) ......235

CIA Funds to Support Hmong Refugees (1976) . 238

Report on the Iran Contra Affair (1987) ...239

ARTICLES, LETTERS, AND MEMOS

White House Memo to News Editors (1962) . . 244

A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority (1968) . 245

Gulf War Letter, February–March, 1991 ...247

COURT CASES, SPEECHES, AND TESTIMONY

Testimony of Walter E. Disney Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (1947) ..........248

Excerpt from Dennis v. United States (1951) . . 252

Paul Robeson's House Un-American Activities Committee Hearing Testimony (1956) . . 254

John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address (1961) . . 255

Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam (1969) .............256

Pardon for Vietnam Draft Evaders (1977) ...262

President Ronald Reagan's Address to the Nation (1983) ..........263

Excerpt from Address at the United Nations (1989) .............268

George W. Bush Address to a joint Session of Congress and the American People, September, 20, 2001 ........271

STATEMENTS OF PURPOSE

Excerpt from the "Port Huron Statement" (1962) .............274

National Organization for Women (NOW) Statement of Purpose (1966) .........277

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