Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan

Title:

Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan

Number of Pages:

51

Description:

Chairman Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee on Vietnam in March 1964; his duty to brief VP on Far East; after T.G. massacre in 1961 had two jobs: to dredge information from Ambassador Averell Harriman and to brief Congress and VP; painful disagreements within government over political and tactical methods of war from May 1963-November 1963; leaving government in 1965

Contributor:

Forrestal, Michael V. (Michael Vincent), 1927-1989

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Michael V. Forrestal

Subject:

Vietnam

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details

Interviewee:

Michael V. Forrestal

Interviewer(s):

Paige E. Mulhollan

Specific Item Type:

Oral history

Type:

Text

Format:

Paper

Identifier:

oh-forrestalm-19691103-1-79-47

Date:

1969-11-03

Time Period:

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Citation

Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan, LBJ Library Oral Histories, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed April 18, 2024, https://www.discoverlbj.org/item/oh-forrestalm-19691103-1-79-47