This report provides background information regarding the U.S. - Vietnam relations and current issues and implications. The report discuses how various issues (US interests, Vietnamese interests, economic ties, and human rights) can affect this burgeoning relationship.

Report that discusses the diplomatic relation between United States and Vietnam that was established in 1995. Topics include issues U.S. and Vietnamese interest, economic ties, and human rights.

This report provides a comparative economic analysis of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries and their economic relations with the United States. It suggests that the TPP negotiating partners encompass great diversity in population, economic development, and trade and investment patterns with the United States.

This report discusses the economic relationship between Vietnam and the U.S. that resumed in the 1990s. Of particular interest to Congress is that both nations may soon be members of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TTP).

This report discusses the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), a free trade agreement that includes nations on both sides of the Pacific. Original members of the TPP were Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, and Singapore. The United States, Australia, Peru, and Vietnam have committed themselves to joining and expanding this group. This report discusses similar trade partnerships, the importance of Asia to U.S. trade and security interests, and U.S. participation in the TPP.

This report provides an overview of U.S. relations with Vietnam, including policy issues, the economic and political situation in Vietnam, and a list of pertinent legislation. The key issues in the relationship include how far to pursue strategic and military-to-military ties; whether to impose curbs on surges in imports of certain items from Vietnam; how much and what types of bilateral economic assistance to provide; whether and how to try to improve the human rights situation in Vietnam; and how to clear up legacy issues from the Vietnam war.

Interview with Lieutenant Sam Hughes, an engineer in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. Hughes goes into great detail about his experiences early on in Vietnam, including hitchhiking to Saigon after their paperwork was lost; he also answers questions and explains how his life was when he returned home from the war. Hughes ends by commenting on the current war going on in Afghanistan.

Interview with Sergeant Tom Hildenbrand, Jr., a United States Marine veteran of the Vietnam War originally from Galveston, Texas. Sergeant Hildenbrand answers questions and elaborates on his service time such as his training and incidents that his unit encountered. He tells of all the bombs the enemy would make and his being a part of the Tet Offensive of 1969.

Interview with E. H. Hartleib, a gunner's mate technician who served on the USS Bonhomme Richard during the Vietnam War. Hartleib answers questions regarding his time in the service, including his clearance to work with nuclear weapons. He also elaborates on his training, his duties in the military, what he thought of the war, etc.

Interview with Wally Fowler, a pilot in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War, retired in 1978. Fowler begins by giving an overview of his career in the Air Force and what he is currently doing, as well as going into detail about his experiences and duties while in Vietnam.

Bound collection of photocopied letters written by Captain Edward P. Jaeger (Ed) to his wife, Elizabeth Jaeger (Libby) while stationed in South Vietnam as part of the U.S. Army Medical Corps. He discusses life in Vietnam as well as topics that his family has written to him about.

From 1962 to 1971, the United States Air Force (USAF) sprayed various herbicide mixtures (chemicals that kill plants) in South Vietnam. The purpose of the spraying was to defoliate jungle growth to deprive the Communist forces of ground cover, and to destroy enemy crops to restrict food supplies. The most extensively used of these herbicide mixtures was known as Agent Orange, a 50:50 mix of two common herbicides called 1,4,5-T and 2,4-D (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid). The third chemical present in the mixture in small amounts was TCDD, an inevitable by-product of the manufacture of 2,4,5-T. This chemical, called tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin or simply "dioxin," is highly toxic to laboratory animals when administered in its pure form. CRS has been unable to locate any report of a human death from exposure to pure TCDD. This report discusses the human health effects that have occurred from exposure to TCDD, as well as related Congressional concerns.

Interview with Seldon D. Reese, a Navy veteran and survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Reese talks about the sinking of the USS Houston (1942), capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java, Bicycle Camp, Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp, Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-44), Kanchanaburi, Thailand, and American air raids (1944), Saigon and Da Lat, French Indo-China (1944-45), and his liberation.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about some 800 Denton citizens who attended what was billed as a giant freedom celebration at the Denton Baptist temple.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about five thousand workers at the Bell helicopter plant in Hurst who left their assembly lines to hear some words of praise from their best customer.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about five thousand delegates from all but two of the world' s nations who are assembled in Caracas.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Saigon command who says that it forces sank a 100 ton North Vietnamese landing craft loaded with arms and ammunition.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the senate by unanimous vote which passed a bill raising education benefits for Vietnam Veterans.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about John Swenson- a spokesman at the united states embassy in Saigon who said that the united states will continue it's search for missing Americans in South Vietnam despite the paralysis of the machinery which co- ordinates the search.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about two Wisconsin lawmakers who are taking shots and military spending and their targets which are billions of dollars in cost overruns to develop new weapons systems and military aid to Vietnam.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about communist gunners who have attacked the big south Vietnamese air base at Bien Hoe for the first time in seven years.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Marine air reserve training detachment which has a new boss, following change of command ceremonies.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Hanoi' s official news agency who says North Vietnam rejects the Saigon government' s proposals on the reunification.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about ministers of the Saigon government and the Viet cong both presented new preproposals as they resumed talks in Paris on the future of South Vietnam.