Americans

Carl Albert - Congressional representative from Oklahoma; served as Speaker of the House during the Nixon Administration.

Gerald R. Ford - Became President after Nixon resigned in August 1974. Tried to restore American aid to South Vietnam in 1975 but failed; declared that the war was finished after Congress rejected aid after the fall of Xuan Loc on April 21, 1975.

J. William Fulbright - Senator from Arkansas from 1945- 1979. Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the Vietnam War. Later turned against the war and was instrumental in passing the War Powers Resolution in 1973.

Alexander Haig - Commanded an infantry division in Vietnam and later joined Kissinger's National Security Council staff in 1969. Negotiated with President Thieu during the final phase of the cease-fire talks in 1972.

Henry Kissinger - Appointed National Security Advisor by President Nixon in 1969. Negotiated with Le Duc Tho to achieve the Paris Agreements in January 1973.He was later appointed to Secretary of State by Nixon.

Mike Mansfield - Senator from Montana and early supporter of the Vietnam War. Later turned against the war.

Graham Martin - Last American ambassador to South Vietnam, from 1973 until the fall of Saigon in 1975.

Richard M. Nixon - Elected to President of the United States in 1968 and 1972 but forced by Watergate scandal to resign in1974. Enacted the Vietnamization Policy to withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam and sought 'Peace with Honor' in negotiating the Paris Agreements in 1973.

William C. Westmoreland - Appointed head of military advisory Mission to Vietnam in 1964 by President Johnson. Commanded U.S. combat forces in Vietnam until 1968; later became Army Chief of Staff.

Frederick C. Weyand - U.S. Commander in Vietnam in 1972 who warned that if the negotiations in Paris did not solve the crucial political question of territorial control, the military truce commission would be limited in its ability to stop the fighting. Proven correct, when the Third Indochina War began.