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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-01-09 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • President Eisenhower. Presi- dent Kennedy recalled you to active duty in 1961, and you served as the military representative to the President. From '62 to '64, you were Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; from 1964 to 1965, Ambassador to Vietnam
  • Vietnam
  • with LBJ and JFK; ambassador to Vietnam; policies regarding Vietnam; Buddhist problem; Diem; Gulf of Tonkin incident; bombing of the North; performance of the American forces; Vietnamese leadership; “Warof Liberation;” negotiations; Presidential involvement
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • by now we all know it. Well, he doesn't have to s~ Why were they a mistake? First, they were a mistake because, while we could not foresee in detail the evolution of the Vietnam War, we did know that we lived in a perilous international world. We
  • Vietnam
  • interest rates; Rexford Tug-well; Keyserling’s influence on the New Deal; lasting effects of New Deal reforms; military spending and the economy; Vietnam war; planning public spending; jobs and on-the-job training; evaluation of LBJ’s domestic policies; how
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • monetary decisions were to be coordinated with fiscal decisions. M: Is the basic problem here the increased expenditure in the Vietnam War? G: Oh yes. This was the basic problem. This was the main source of the increased government spending which