Expand All Collapse All Extent 180 folders, approximately 9,555 pages [2 electronic files] Summary This collection consists of records related to President Clinton’s visit to Vietnam, November 16-19, 2000. President Clinton was the first U.S. President to officially visit Hanoi since the withdrawal of American combat troops in 1975. It contains correspondence and memoranda from private individuals, businesses and cabinet members requesting permission to accompany the President on his visit and background information and facts about the population, language, people, religion, government, industries, environment, history, economics, education and culture of both Brunei and Vietnam Scope and Content Note The materials in FOIA 2014-1061-F are a selective body of documents responsive to the topic of the FOIA. Researchers should consult the archivist about related materials. Records responsive to this FOIA include correspondence and memoranda from private individuals, businesses and cabinet members requesting permission to accompany the President on his visit to Brunei and Vietnam. The records also contain background information and facts about the population, language, people, religion, government, industries, environment, history, economics, education and culture of both Brunei and Vietnam. Materials include trip books, event scenarios, cables, site briefing materials, safety measures, maps, itineraries, emails, schedules, talking points and trip summaries. The records discuss Vietnam’s economic and political potential, education, a pharmaceutical company called OPV Vietnam, Ltd., the Vietnam Education Foundation, flooding in the Mekong Delta, foreign enterprise and Vietnamese rural healthcare. The location and repatriation of Vietnam War POW remains was also a major theme of the trip. Many records in the National Security Council files address this aspect of Vietnamese-American relations. President Clinton was the first U.S. President to officially visit Hanoi since the withdrawal of American combat troops in 1975. The United States had an economic embargo on Vietnam when President Clinton took office in 1993. The President restored diplomatic relations with Vietnam and lifted the embargo in July of 1995. His goals for this 2000 trip were to further the process of reconciliation with Vietnam, discuss Vietnam's economic and political potential and to focus on a “full accounting” of our servicemen still missing in action. The President hoped that his presence would “open a new page in our relations … hopefully one that will put an end to the divisions.” The President’s trip began in Brunei where he attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation [APEC] Leaders meeting, held November 15-16, 2000. He departed Brunei on November 16, 2000 and arrived in Vietnam the same day. The official ceremonies began the next morning with a meeting between President Clinton, Vietnamese President Luong and Prime Minister Khai. Later that day President Clinton gave a speech to university students at Hanoi National University where he described the vision for our future relationship with Vietnam. On November 17th he visited an MIA [Missing in Action] excavation site at a village outside of Hanoi where an American jet-fighter had crashed in 1967. The pilot of the jet-fighter was Air Force Captain Lawrence Evert. President Clinton invited Captain Evert’s two sons to join him at the excavation site. While in Hanoi President Clinton took a tour of an exhibit on land mine awareness. Nearly 2,000 Vietnamese are killed or injured every year by unexploded ordnance and mines. The United States has been providing assistance to Vietnam for demining education and rehabilitation. He also meet one of the three top Vietnamese officials that day, Party General Chairman Le Kha Phieu. On Saturday, November 18th at Hanoi's Noi Bai airport the President participated in a ceremony marking the repatriation of the remains of several American servicemen as they were sent to the Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii (CILHI). A joint military honor guard escorted the remains to the laboratory in Hawaii. The President then went Ho Chi Minh City where he had a roundtable discussion with a group of young Vietnamese. After the roundtable he visited the International Container Terminal a computerized container site on the Saigon River where he talked about the benefits of trade and investment. Record Type Textual System of Arrangement Records that are responsive to this FOIA request were found in these collections areas— Clinton Presidential Records: White House Office of Records Management (WHORM) Subject Files and Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files. The White House Office of Records Management (WHORM) contains a variety of series created to organize and track documents and correspondence. The WHORM Subject File was compiled by the White House Office of Records Management and is a series of categories designated by a letter/number combination. Staff and Office files were maintained at the folder level by staff members within their individual offices and document all levels of administration activity. 1 Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton – Interview with Terrence Hunt and Walter M. Mears of the Associated Press, November 14, 2000. WHORM files are processed at the document level; whereas, Staff and Office files are processed at the folder level, that is, individual documents are not selected and removed from a folder for processing. While this method maintains folder integrity, it frequently results in the incidental processing of documents that are not wholly responsive to the subject area. FOIA 2014-1061-F includes WHORM records from these subject codes: CO183 Countries: Vietnam, Socialist Republic FO002 Foreign Affairs: Diplomatic Affairs – Consular Relations IV000 Invitations PR010 Public Relations: Motion Pictures – Film Strips - Recordings PR013-08 Public Relations: Opinions – Statements – Questionnaires - Articles SP400 Speeches: Radio Addresses SP1616-02 Remarks at a U.S. – Vietnamese Business Forum Reception, Ho Chi Minh, City 1/19/2000 SP1616-02 Speeches: Remarks to the Joint Task Force Full Accounting Excavation Participants, Tien Chau Village, Vietnam, 11/18/2000 TR Trips TR474-02 Trips: Hanoi, Vietnam, 11/16 – 17/00 WE001 Welfare: Children (Welfare Services - Adoption - Abuse). Access Collection is open to all researchers. Access to Clinton Presidential Records is governed by the Presidential Records Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. Chapter 22, as amended) and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552, as amended) and therefore records may be restricted in whole or in part in accordance with legal exemptions. Copyright Documents in this collection that were prepared by officials of the United States government as part of their official duties are in the public domain. Researchers are advised to consult the copyright law of the United States (17 U.S.C. Chapter 1) which governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Provenance Official records of William Jefferson Clinton’s presidency are housed at the Clinton Presidential Library and administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the provisions of the Presidential Records Act (PRA). Processed by Staff Archives Specialist, 2018. Previously restricted materials are added as they are released. Last Modified Date 2018-07-13 Container List The following is a list of documents and folders processed in response to FOIA 2014-1061-F: Box 1 Clinton Presidential Records: WHORM: Subject File Category Case Number CO183 410902 CO183 428691 CO183 428700 CO183 430294 CO183 430598 CO183 430667 CO183 431458 CO183 431473 CO183 431600 CO183 431752 CO183 431850 CO183 431978 CO183 431999 CO183 432029 CO183 432032 CO183 432037 CO183 432040 CO183 433911 CO183 434339 CO183 439799 FO002 439969 IV000 435637 PR010 435580 PR013-08 435846 SP400 435594 SP1616-02 435845 SP1616-02 440062 TR 431947 TR474-02 437561 WE001 433707 Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files Advance Office Trip Books Trip Book of the President of the United States: Brunei, Vietnam, Hawaii – November 2000 [Binder] [1] [OA/ID 24098] Trip Book of the President of the United States: Brunei, Vietnam, Hawaii – November 2000 [Binder] [2] [OA/ID 24098] Trip Book of the President of the United States: Brunei, Vietnam, Hawaii – November 2000 [Binder] [3] [OA/ID 24098] Trip Book of the President of the United States: Brunei, Vietnam, Hawaii – November 2000 [Binder] [4] [OA/ID 24098] Box 2 Airlift Operations [POTUS Travel] SAM [Special Air Mission] #2878: 13-20 November 2000 ADW [Andrews Air Force Base]/Kona, Hawaii/Brunei/Hanoi, Vietnam/Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam/Elmendorf, Alaska/ADW [1] [CF 3001] [POTUS Travel] SAM [Special Air Mission] #2878: 13-20 November 2000 ADW [Andrews Air Force Base]/Kona, Hawaii/Brunei/Hanoi, Vietnam/Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam/Elmendorf, Alaska/ADW [2] [OA/ID CF 3001] [POTUS Travel] SAM [Special Air Mission] #2879: 13-20 November 2000 ADW [Andrews Air Force Base]/Brunei/Hanoi, Vietnam/Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam/Yokota, Japan/Elmendorf, Alaska/ADW [OA/ID CF 3001] [FLOTUS Travel] SAM [Special Air Mission] #2731: 14-16 November 2000 ADW [Andrews Air Force Base]/Shannon, Ireland/Tel Aviv, Israel/Hanoi, Vietnam [OA/ID CF 3003] Cabinet Affairs Bovaird, Anne Brunei/Vietnam – Miscellaneous [1] [OA/ID 20152] Brunei/Vietnam – Miscellaneous [2] [OA/ID 20152] Chief of Staff Tramontano, Karen Miscellaneous [Vietnam Information] [OA/ID 24689] Council of Economic Advisers Choi, Audrey Vietnam [OA/ID 24258] Swagel, Philip Vietnam [OA/ID 23063] Legislative Affairs Casstevens, Kay Vietnam [OA/ID 23495] National Economic Council Kissenger, William Vietnam [OA/ID 24549] Rosen, Dan [Vietnam]: Business Reception: HCMC [Ho Chi Minh City] [OA/ID 23984] Box 3 [Vietnam Materials] [binder] [OA/ID 23984] [Vietnam]: VN [Vietnam] Commercial Advocacy [OA/ID 23984] [Vietnam]: VN [Vietnam] Status Meeting November 1 [OA/ID 23984] VN [Vietnam] 2 [loose] [OA/ID 23984] VN [Vietnam] 2: EMB [Embassy] Hanoi August [2000] – Vintage Deliverables [OA/ID 23984] VN [Vietnam] 2: GS [Gene Sperling] Vietnam Memo [OA/ID 23984] VN [Vietnam] 2: Memcon 8/29/00 Vietnam Deliverables at DOS [Department of State] [OA/ID 23984] VN [Vietnam] 2: OPIC [Overseas Private Investment Corporation]/ AEP [Asia Environmental Partnership] Projects in Vietnam [OA/ID 23984] VN [Vietnam] 2: POTUS Letter Before Trip [OA/ID 23984] VN [Vietnam] 2: Prominent VN [Vietnamese] – Americans [OA/ID 23984] VN [Vietnam] 2: Vietnam: Advocacy Letters Department of Commerce 11/6/2000 [OA/ID 23984] VN [Vietnam] 2: Vietnam Agenda Notes [OA/ID 23984] VN [Vietnam] 2: Vietnam Background Reading [OA/ID 23984] VN [Vietnam] 2: Vietnam Deliverables with/ Gene Christy 9/8/2000 [OA/ID 23984] VN [Vietnam] 2: Vietnam Deputies #2 10/18/2000 [OA/ID 23984] VN [Vietnam] 2: Vietnam Deputies Planning 10/5/2000 [OA/ID 23984] Sperling, Gene [Vietnam, Supplemental Background Information, October XX, 2000 [loose] [1][OA/ID 21346] [Vietnam, Supplemental Background Information, October XX, 2000 [loose] [2][OA/ID 21346] Subject Files Vietnam - Supplemental Background Information - October 2000 [binder] [1][OA/ID 24554] Box 4 Vietnam - Supplemental Background Information - October 2000 [binder] [2][OA/ID 24554] National Security Council Defense Policy and Arms Control Binnendijk, Hans Vietnam POW/MIA, 2000 [OA/ID 3470] Executive Secretary POTUS Trip to Vietnam, November 16-19, 2000 (Briefing Book) [OA/ID 2592] International Economic Affairs Duncan, John APEC-Vietnam-Trip Supplemental Background Information Binder, October 2000 [1][OA/ID 3132] APEC-Vietnam-Trip Supplemental Background Information Binder, October 2000 [2][OA/ID 3132] National Security Council Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs Smith, Peter Vietnam-POTUS Visit, November 2000 [1] [OA/ID 3073] Vietnam-POTUS Visit, November 2000 [2] [OA/ID 3073] Vietnam-POTUS Visit, November 2000 [3] [OA/ID 3073] Vietnam-POTUS Visit, November 2000 [4] [OA/ID 3073] Box 5 Office of Press and Communications Crowley, Philip J. (PJ) POTUS Trip to Brunei Darussalam (for the APEC Leaders Meeting) and Vietnam (November 13-19, 2000) [1] [OA/ID 3667] POTUS Trip to Brunei Darussalam (for the APEC Leaders Meeting) and Vietnam (November 13-19, 2000) [2] [OA/ID 3667] POTUS Trip to Brunei Darussalam (for the APEC Leaders Meeting) and Vietnam (November 13-19, 2000) [3] [OA/ID 3667] Records Management Trip Book-POTUS Trip to Vietnam, November 16-19, 2000 [OA/ID 3633] Trip Book-POTUS Trip to Vietnam, November 16-19, 2000 [OA/ID 3634] Public Liaison Efurd, Laura Vietnam Trip [Binder] [1] [OA/ID 21007] Vietnam Trip [Binder] [2] [OA/ID 21007] Vietnam Trip [1] [OA/ID 21016] Vietnam Trip [2] [OA/ID 21016] Box 6 Vietnam Trip [3] [OA/ID 21016] Vietnam Trip #1 [1] [OA/ID 21010] Vietnam Trip #1 [2] [OA/ID 21010] Vietnam Trip #2 [1] [OA/ID 21010] Vietnam Trip #2 [2] [OA/ID 21010] Vietnam Trip #2 [3] [OA/ID 21010] Vietnam Trip #2 [4] [OA/ID 21010] Box 7 Vietnam Trip #3 [1] [OA/ID 21010] Vietnam Trip #3 [2] [OA/ID 21010] Vietnam Trip 11/2000 [1] [OA/ID 21102] Vietnam Trip 11/2000 [2] [OA/ID 21102] Vietnam Trip Outreach [OA/ID 21007] Vietnam Trip Requests 1 [1] [OA/ID 21102] Vietnam Trip Requests 1 [2] [OA/ID 21102] Vietnam Trip Requests 2 [OA/ID 21102] Box 8 Schwerin, Eric Vietnam [1] [OA/ID 20574] Vietnam [2] [OA/ID 20574] Shea, Maureen Vietnam [OA/ID 20949] Public Liaison Stanek, Christine POTUS Trip to Vietnam [OA/ID 21282] POTUS Vietnam/Brunei Trip [OA/ID 21282] Subject Files Vietnam Trip [OA/ID 24330] Scheduling Office General Files Brunei/Vietnam – C: Drive Documents [OA/ID 23454] Hanoi, Vietnam Trip Information, November 2000 [OA/ID 19446] Trip to Brunei and Vietnam – November 2000 [OA/ID 23450] [Vietnam/Brunei Trip] [binder] [1] [OA/ID 23455] Box 9 [Vietnam/Brunei Trip] [binder] [2] [OA/ID 23455] [Vietnam/Brunei Trip] [binder] [3] [OA/ID 23455] [Vietnam Site Team Visit – September 19-21, 2000 [1] [OA/ID 23454] [Vietnam Site Team Visit – September 19-21, 2000 [2] [OA/ID 23454] [Visit of the President and First Lady to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – November 18-19,2000] [binder] [1] [OA/ID 23455] [Visit of the President and First Lady to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – November 18-19,2000] [binder] [2] [OA/ID 23455] [Visit of the President and First Lady to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – November 18-19,2000] [binder] [3] [OA/ID 23455] Box 10 Streett, Stephanie Future Travel/Vietnam [Vietnam/Brunei Correspondence, November 2000] [1][OA/ID 19442] Future Travel/Vietnam [Vietnam/Brunei Correspondence, November 2000] [2][OA/ID 19442] Trip of President William Jefferson Clinton to Bendar Seri Begawan, Brunei and Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – November 13-20, 2000 [Folder 1][OA/ID 23433] Trip of President William Jefferson Clinton to Bendar Seri Begawan, Brunei and Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – November 13-20, 2000 [Folder 2][OA/ID 23433] Trip of President William Jefferson Clinton to Bendar Seri Begawan, Brunei and Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – November 13-20, 2000 [Folder 3][OA/ID 23433] Travel Office General Files Brunei and Vietnam – November 13-19, 2000 – P11113 (-19) [empty] [OA/ID 24367] Hotel Bills [empty] [OA/ID 24367] Rental Car [Hawaii] [OA/ID 24367] Travel Authorizations [Bendar Seri Begawan, Brunei and Vietnam] [OA/ID 24367] Travel Authorization [Hawaii and Vietnam] [OA/ID 24367] Trip Summary [Bendar Seri Begawan, Brunei and Vietnam] [OA/ID 24367] Clinton Presidential Records: NSC Cables, Emails, and Records Management System NSC Records Management [POTUS and Vietnam] 0005960 [OA/ID 4106] 0006111 [OA/ID 4107] 0006133 [OA/ID 4107] 0006155 [OA/ID 4107] 0006242 [OA/ID 4108] 0006290 [OA/ID 4108] 0006403 [OA/ID 4109] 0006405 [OA/ID 4109] 0006432 [OA/ID 4109] 0006507 [OA/ID 4109] 0006619 [OA/ID 4110] 0006620 [OA/ID 4110] 0006634 [OA/ID 4110] 0006656 [OA/ID 4110] 0006691 [OA/ID 4110] 0006715 [Vietnam Portion] [OA/ID 4110] 0006723 [OA/ID 4110] 0006750 [OA/ID 4111] 0006755 [1] [OA/ID 4111] Box 11 0006755 [2] [OA/ID 4111] 0006755 [3] [OA/ID 4111] 0006769 [OA/ID 4111] 0006809 [OA/ID 4111] 0006826 [OA/ID 4111] 0006847 [OA/ID 4181] 0006856 [OA/ID 4111] 0006859 [OA/ID 4111] 0006897 [OA/ID 4112] 0006903 [OA/ID 3975] 0006907 [OA/ID 4112] 0006911 [OA/ID 4112] 0006914 [OA/ID 4112] 0006923 [OA/ID 4112] 0006925 [OA/ID 4112] 0006999 [OA/ID 4112] 0007000 [OA/ID 4112] 0007026 [OA/ID 4112] 0007028 [OA/ID 4112] 0007055 [OA/ID 4112] 0007056 [OA/ID 4112] 0007069 [OA/ID 4112] 0007176 [OA/ID 4113] 0007230 [OA/ID 4113] 0007238 [OA/ID 4113] 0007310 [OA/ID 4114] 0007313 [OA/ID 4114] NSC Records Management [POTUS and Vietnam] 0007347 [OA/ID 4114] 0007358 [OA/ID 4114] 0007546 [OA/ID 4115] 0007614 [OA/ID 4115] 0007620 [OA/ID 4115] 0007817 [OA/ID 4116B] Electronic Records Public Liaison Efurd, Laura [Vietnam Trip] [Disks] Vietnam Trip [Binder] [2] [Disk] [OA/ID 21007] Vietnam Trip #2 [3] [Disk] [OA/ID 21010]