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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Subject > Tonkin Gulf Incidents, 1964 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • --was that we had an opportunity to learn from our experience dealing with Chiang Kai-shek in the war and post-war years; that the one thing we should have learned is to call the bluff of our clients. Chiang had led us around by the nose; had lost his own
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; the Kennedy staff that stayed to work for LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with the press compared to that of previous presidents; (dis)advantages of getting close to the president; LBJ’s relationship with Phil and Kay Graham; Great Society speech; type of access press