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Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and between me and t;loyers on all this. I said it in diplomatic ways. After the '64 election, before he went off so hard on Vietnam, I was involved for a while trying to talk about the next four years and exactly this problem. Moyers I thought had come
  • Vietnam
  • nomination for LBJ; Vietnam; Laotian compromise; JFK’s assassination; LBJ in the White House; détente; lost opportunity to go down in history as a great man.
Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Johnson's foreign policy role was during the John Kennedy Administration? P: I don't think he played much of a role then. M: He did, of course, have a couple of trips to Berlin and Vietnam, and there were several crises, but you feel that as Vice
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to Vietnam, is that right? C: That's correct. G: And did you fly him on both of those? C: As a matter of fact, I did. G: You have talked about those, or at least one of the trips, I think, perhaps it was the one after the Manila conference, on your
  • Vietnam
  • LBJ's trips to Vietnam in 1966 and 1967; LBJ's mood about Vietnam; LBJ's relationship with the military; LBJ and LeMay, McConnell, Wheeler, Moymer, Abrams, Westmoreland and Haig; aspects of the role of a military aide; LBJ and Humphrey; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for Vietnamese Affairs and chainman of the Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee on Vietnam. M: That was in ••• ? F: I think it was about. April, 1964. M: Right. Then you· stayed there until March of 1965 when you left the government, and you haven't
  • Vietnam
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • for Vietnam casualties or anybody else during a hiatus while the new area was being gotten ready. Now, that new area is still not ready, but when it is ready, it will look right. It won't look vulgar and scarred the way the 1959 expansion area looks. P
  • Vietnam
  • Hershey; reorganization/consolidation of Reserves and National Guard; training of reserve units for Vietnam; lawsuits by reservists; role of reserves; defense budgeting; ROTC; training skills; older equipment in Vietnam; desertions; Vietnam; Armed Forces
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the crises. I was assigned Laos and Vietnam, and he did Congo and Cuba. Then he mainly did Berlin except when it would get hot. Then both of us would put our shoulders to the wheel on Berlin, because I had a lot of European experience and background on Berlin
  • First impressions of LBJ; JFK and LBJ; JFK and the White House staff; LBJ as VP; LBJ on foreign aid; LBJ Berlin speech, 1961; LBJ on foreign policy pre-presidency; LBJ’s first State of the Union message; Vietnam; CIAP; Latin America; White House
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • forget, you sponsored this. You were the one who really got it along. You can't let it die." He was very good about it. Health legislation, education legislation--he was excellent on these.· Of course, when the stresses of Vietnam came
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • towns than the villages were controlled by the Vietnamese government, but the vast areas of that particular part of Vietnam, mostly very flat rice lands, and the countryside, was controlled by the Viet Congo There were no schools out there; there were
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh lCrankel -- I -- 3 I, myself, brought up to the White House the question of Vietnam
  • Vietnam
  • Writing The Neglected Aspect; circumstances of appointment to office; disapproves LBJ's Vietnam policy; drafting the Smithsonian speech for LBJ; background of the International Education Act; the Interagency Committee on International Education
Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1981 INTERVIEWEE: PAUL D. HARKINS INTERVIEWER: TED GITTINGER PLACE: General Harkins' residence, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: General Harkins, will you begin by giving us a brief sketch of your military career before your assignment to Vietnam
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; impressions of Vietnam; reform programs; infiltration; intelligence; Ap Bac; Diem Laos; country team in Saigon; Buddhists; Diem
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about matters of great importance, including the Vietnam situation. He would have the polls on how the public was reacting. He talked frequently of a number of problems. It's hard for me to reconstruct it now other than to say that there was constant
  • Morrissey nomination; LBJ’s staff; 1965 bombing halt in Vietnam; intelligence gathering in Latin America by the CIA and FBI; New York politics; dinner for Princess Margaret, including a guest with a criminal record; a ride in August Busch’s plane; buying out
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , this was the first general legislation in which those words Col~:bia, were used at the federal level. B: Did you ever try in Congress in '64 and again in '66 when PL-480 was being extended to remove those limitations on aid to countries trading with North Vietnam
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the suggestions from people, when I would say, "Why are you anti-American?" "I'm not anti-American at all. There are certain things your contry is doing such as in Vietnam, we don't agree with. But do all of your friends agree with you all the time? Why do you
  • Vietnam
  • Building of LBJ Library; Heath named Swedish Ambassador in March, confirmed April 1967; Russell Tribunal; three groups in Sweden: hard-core ant-Americans, Communists, pro-Americans; race and Vietnam both issues in Sweden; experiences of Tanzanian
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to back up and do. Some of them hqye come up partly as the result of the article just coming out in Look Magazine which you've probably had a chance to know about by Norman Cousins ["How the U.S. Spurned Three Chances for Peace in Vietnam," July 29, 1969
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • not covered all your meetings with Mr. Johnson. I didn't want to overlook these because I think that they have had some important bearing on your relationship with him and a trip to Vietnam was included in this area. bit about these? Could you tell me
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; career; meeting with LBJ; Trust Territory; U.S. relationship with Eastern European countries; NATO; MLF; Vietnam War; Arthur Goldberg; Middle East crisis; Dean Rusk; women as diplomats; trip to VN; 1968 campaign; Johnson
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • involvement with you on that score. S: Probably did, but I don't recall it. G: Okay. I want to raise three areas of CBS coverage of the war in Vietnam. The first is Morley Safer's broadcast in August 1965, which depicted the burning of a village. Do you
  • the burning of a Vietnam village; television news coverage of Vietnam; Stanton's belief that the Vietnam war would have been shorter if there had been presidential debates in 1964; Walter Cronkite's effect on public opinion and LBJ's concern over Cronkite's
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : All right, sir. Is it accurate to say that your first involvement in intelligence regarding Vietnam was when you were at USARPAC? D: Yes. That's true. You don't watch it with the single focus that the J-2 MACV watches it, because that's the whole
  • Vietnam
  • Summary of army career; involvement in intelligence regarding Vietnam; replacing General McChristian in Saigon; differences in McChristian and Davidson; "the Weekly Intelligence Estimate Update;" Creighton Abrams; counterintelligence; pattern
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of everybody else in intelligence. It turns out that in every case where a National Intelligence Estimate was written on what the strengths were in Vietnam, there was no dispute. There were disputes within the services. I had disputes with people in DIA
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for Political Affairs; as Ambassador at Large; and, for the last year of the Johnson Administration, you were chief negotiator at the Paris peace talks concerning North Vietnam. H: That's right. M: When did your close acquaintance with Lyndon Johnson begin
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; Advisory Council to the National Committee; LBJ and foreign affairs; role in peace negotiations; Poland/Yugoslavia visit; India and Pakistan; Soviet Union prevented bombing halt in Vietnam; trip with HHH; Manila Conference
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the youngsters fed up with Vietnam, and they had people from Massachusetts coming in and other states. It was really taken as the opportunity to have a massive show of protest against Vietnam. And there were organizations formed at that time, like by this chap
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh McCloskey -- I -- 4 One, of course, thinks about the generic story of Vietnam, and there was egregious treatment of certain aspects of that story from time to time. I like to think that during that period, that long night of Vietnam
  • McCloskey's career history; McCloskey's philosophy of public relations as the State Department spokesman during the Vietnam War; Vietnam War reporters; the atmosphere within the State Department, Defense Department, and White House; McCloskey's
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • (laughter)-colonel--nice guy, and we established the headquarters in Le Tran [Nha Trang?], which then became the First or the Fifth Special Forces Group and, later, the special forces headquarters in Vietnam. And we took over from CIA these detachments
  • Vietnam
  • the Assistant Chief of Staff for Force Development; DePuy's involvement in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis; how DePuy became Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) and his duties as such; the battles at Binh Gia, Binh
Oral history transcript, James Robinson, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ; this was before things really fell apart in Vietnam, when there was still some hope that he and others would be able to do something [to] salvage the administration and go on to a second term in his own right. G: May I ask if you're a Democrat? R: Yes, you can
  • University in the 1960s and Robinson's involvement in campus leadership; how Robinson's opinions have changed since the time he wrote the book, especially regarding Vietnam; supporting Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 presidential election.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ability or potential to do the job, and two, that he was loyal to the President. M: Did that loyalty include such things as supporting policies like Vietnam, say, outside the area where the appointment was? C: Not in a specific sense. He didn't ask
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • play any part in the briefings in the 1954 episode connected with Indo-China, which grew later into the Vietnam affair? At the time when the French were about to pullout, a meeting of Congressional leaders? H: Yes, I did, mostly through the Foreign
Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Johnson's Administration . How have you accounted-0: Now which study is this? M: Didn't you do a study on dissent in the academy, the academic critics of the Vietnam policy particularly? � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • Vietnam
  • Contact with LBJ; Walt Rostow; Dean Acheson; Policy Planning Council; bureaucratic resistance to new ideas; multilateral force; non-proliferation treaty; Andrew Copkin; MLF; PPC's contacts in academic community; Vietnam policy; Bureau
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Did you ever talk to Johnson on Vietnam? P: Oh, yes. Yes. I talked to him on Vietnam the last time I was in the White House during his administration. F: Did you carryon a good dialogue \
  • Vietnam
  • LBJ’s participation in the elections of 1952 and 1956; LBJ turning over election activities to Stewart Udall; Partens work as a consultant to Udall; LBJ’s skills as an administrator; Vietnam; LBJ’s decision ont to run for re-election; Great Society
Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to Vietnam in 1965? D: Yes, I came to the army in 1941, like a lot of young people, just before the start of World War II, a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., through the ROTC program. And [I] participated in World War II
  • Desobry's military career before going to Vietnam in 1965; Vietnam as a learning experience; Desobry's duties as a senior adviser in IV Corps; Robert McNamara's visits to Vietnam; how the military was prevented from defeating the enemy in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • this for a year and I would then go to Harvard. This was all kind of a package. It was on the basis that I would not receive a presidential appointment and the hell with it. M: Later on at least, if not by then, ISA became sort of a center of dissent on Vietnam
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • their duties the way they saw fit. But I think if you would talk to most members of Congress you would find Mr. McNamara's credit was pretty high right down to the end with one exception, and that is the problem arising over his statements on Vietnam. I think
  • to Vietnam; McNamara's resistance to sending reserve units to Vietnam.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the Pentagon. The sense that I had was, and I believe it was the sense of the Pentagon, that right after the election the President would step up our military activity in Vietnam. We were--I think it's fair to say, although you'd really have to talk to McNamara
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the President with regard to Mansfield's Vietnam opposition. Do you recall this issue? J: Yes, I do. I remember that, and I remember a number of occasions where the President referred to President Ford. On the Mansfield thing, aside from his personal
  • LBJ's opinion of Gerald Ford; Ford's public release of a letter from Mike Mansfield to LBJ expressing opposition to LBJ's decision-making in Vietnam; LBJ's response to criticism of Vietnam decisions; LBJ's determination to win in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • what seemed to me from the very beginning a quite untenable position, primarily because I thought that both the political and physical terrain of South Vietnam were impossible for the effective utilization of the American force and that we should
  • Ball Vietnam memoranda to LBJ; Aceson-Ball plan; senior advisory group (the Wise Men); Clark Clifford as a "dove;" U.S. European policy; Multilateral Force (MLF); Adenauer; DeGaulle; NATO; balance of payments; Dominican Republic; Ball's resignation
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Vietnam and he would read the statistics and take it very seriously and wonder if he was making the right decisions. So as I said, in retrospect I guess there were a lot of signs, except that I didn't know how to interpret them. Plus, Lyndon Johnson
  • How Bonanno came to work for LBJ; LBJ's March 31, 1968, speech on Vietnam and LBJ's decision not to seek re-election; foreign response to the speech; Averell Harriman and Cyrus Vance's negotiation meetings with the North Vietnamese; the shift away
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the prospects of getting involved in the Vietnam War but he never questioned that the nation had to do it, and I think he felt the same way about Castro. Whatever it was we were doing that was anti-Castro, he would continue to support, and it probably took him
  • Vietnam
  • ; discussions on Vietnam; LBJ and Vietnam; incidents preceding and following Gulf of Tonkin incident; Robert McNamara; use of intelligence support
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -- 4 One, of course, thinks about the generic story of Vietnam, and there was egregious treatment of certain aspects of that story from time to time. I like to think that during that period, that long night of Vietnam, that the rather hostile
  • McCloskey’s work in foreign service and as State Department spokesman; reporters; Vietnam; credibility gap; coordinating briefings with the White House and the Pentagon; new mission of the marines in 1965; withholding information from the press
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not persuaded local political leaders were not being cooperative. They were rather passive, at best. There were centers of greater concern to us than others in terms of anti-Vietnam activities. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • Hubert Humphrey's public appearances after his Vietnam speech in Salt Lake City; avoiding certain campaign areas due to lack of support and negative media there; campaign organization; improving advance work for trips; the campaign status in mid
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the disclosures, so-called, that have been made about Mr. Stevenson's views on the Vietnam War since his death--do you have any insights into what his role was during the period immediately prior to his death in regard to the Vietnam situation? F: No, because
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; Finletter Report; 70-group Air Force; George Mahon; Adlai Stevenson; Vietnam; decline in power of Democratic party; John Foster Dulles; NATO; meeting with LBJ on 4/10/64 on MLF; lack of support of MLF; Ottawa speech; Non
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • been there. McS: What about the problem of the emergence of Hawks or Doves as far as the Vietnam War is concerned? F: I would say most of the members of the House of Foreign Affairs Committee were Hawks, if you're going to use those terms. Now you
  • Vietnam
  • to North Carolina; Congress under JFK and LBJ; objecting to Adam Yarmolinsky as head of Poverty program; LBJ’s strategy on passing legislation; Freeman’s agricultural policy; Foreign Affairs Committee; schism between Fulbright and LBJ regarding Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of them has not as yet been satisfactorily resolved. That has to do with the issue as to how you treat contractor personnel, or, let's say, merchant seamen who are caught engaged in illegal activity in Vietnam. As you probably know, there are two sections