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of it, the very end of it, or better yet, I think it was when Mr. Nixon came in. I told him that, you know, I took all the flak for a lot of these operations when in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

- 22 or December of 1969, for a month . G: Now, Nixon's Vietnamization was taking hold 0: That's right . And by now, of 1968 from Vietnam to in the fall by this time . of 1968--I came back in April the States, and I covered the political

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, anyhowo I'm sure the Johnson people feel a certain antipathy toward the Nixon people as usurpers, even though they knew for months it was going to happen. R: Yes. Well, when it comes that suddenly-- F: It's just a surrender. R: You are i.n physical

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the Johnson Administration. In fact, I don't think the Nixon people have shipped them very much military aid. It has mostly been only spare parts, etc. I don't recall when that decision was made--rnaybe under Johnson, maybe under Nixon--but all this to-do

that in the review of foreign policy which I am sure Mr. Nixon's Administration intends to make that we would look SEATO over and decide whether we need that particular coalition. present form. I doubt it in its Or whether it would be possible and desirable to put

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

effect in Saigon, and I knew that she was representing herself to Bui Diem as speaking for Nixon. In fact I was told that Agnew in some eccentric way or another got into the act, but I was told this in very great confidence and on the basis

Harbor after Nixon became President effects of Tet offensive as a public relations defeat; LBJ’s harassment by both the media and Kennedy people in the administration; further results of military restraints from Washington.

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was quite different from theirs, so I never had any hesitations about staying on. professional. I've always regarded myself as a I would have stayed on for the Nixon Administration if they had chosen to regard me as a professional instead of a Johnson
; problems regarding Komer’s ambassadorship; losing his job when Nixon became President; LBJ’s visit with Indira Ghandi; how Komer met LBJ and discussed the Pakistan-India issue; White House visits from foreign dignitaries; sending wheat to India; comparing

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with a family--shot to pieces in this war--and that's the way he felt about it. M: I notice that with the new Administration coming in one of the programs that Mr. Nixon talked about, and there are now some Congressmen talking about it, is trying to convert

the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Uow this was a practice that was followed also by preceding presidents and also by Mr. Nixon. But, for example, before we put the budget to bed, as always, there was a meeting of the President with the Secretary of Defense

in the National Security Council now, which I had the opportunity of attending on many occasions after Mr. Nixon became president. But I think it achieved the same end. Every- body got his oar in, and the President listened to everybody's advice, and notes were

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