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Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , Okinawa, in July of 1964. You see, I flew from Okinawa to advanced bases like Korat, Thailand, and Da Nang, South Vietnam. G: Now, of course, this was before the Gulf of Tonkin incidents and before the commitment of American combat troops. What sort
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  • Initial involvement with Vietnam; flying missions into Southeast Asia; views on the war; a military professional; service as commanding officer of the 67th Tactical Fighter Squadron; controversy about bombings; opinion of Ramsey Clark and Jane Fonda
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • me one of the twenty-two observers to take a trip to Saigon, Vietnam, in connection with the national elections. Washington, D.C. Most of the observers boarded Air Force Two in But a few of us in the West found it more convenient to take the plane
  • First meeting LBJ; the invocation at LBJ's inauguration; Chancellor Kiesinger of Germany; Hugo Black; Harry Jersig; the National Advisory Council for OEO; Sargent Shriver; Maury Maverick, Jr.; 1967 trip to South Vietnam to observe national elections
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nitze -- I -- 5 P: Have there been times of major events related perhaps to the war, or decisions to be made regarding the war in Vietnam, or other crisis areas that developed in the world that you have been
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 18 (XVIII), 12/18/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Department to the Justice Department. This was the instance reflected in the documents where, according to Mike Manatos, you had more Jetstars in the air than you did planes over Vietnam that day, to get senators back from Puerto Rico and other places
  • Administration hospital closure in Montana and the importance of keeping the White House congressional relations department advised on all problematic issues; Everett Dirksen's dependability; Mansfield's 1966 concerns about Vietnam; Mansfield's refusal
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was not going to, in effect, be involved in politics while he was trying to bring an end to the Vietnam conflict have on this political involvement in behalf of Humphrey? O: I think you can't overlook some aspects as this evolved, going back to his
  • Lyndon Johnson's (LBJ) role in Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign, especially in Texas; why LBJ wasn't more involved in the campaign; Humphrey's Salt Lake City speech about Vietnam; what LBJ could have done to help Humphrey; efforts to gain
Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the President's lessening of popularity . And then, too, of course, the--I think some use it as an excuse, maybe--the Vietnam War . You see, he'd had his ups and downs in popularity, as everyone is aware . But it seems to me that it's unjustified
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • because this is a religious country. At the same time, on several occasions I remember, he'd ask Luci to get the priest--her friend in Washington--to pray for the boys in Vietnam particularly. This 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • Texas protesters arrested and later invited to the Ranch; Jacobsen's opinion of Martin Luther King, Jr.; clothier Louis Roth's anti-Vietnam stance; Martin Luther King's FBI report.
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , as a matter of fact. And Tet, as again I think I've remarked earlier, was a very serious military defeat for the North in Vietnam, although a psychological victory here. G: Do you recall the circumstances under which General Westmoreland and Bob Komer were
  • Vietnam enemy inflitration through Laos and Cambodia and pros and cons of U.S. invasion to cut supply lines; Bunker's conviction concerning censorship of the press; LBJ's 3/31/1968 decision not to seek re-election; bombing pause; U.S. plans to train
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a particular appointment or question? What would he ask you, now? H: Well, some of the questions were about procedures and Vietnam, of course, and many of them were--you see, Lyndon Johnson is a great man, but he's a very sensitive man and hi s feel i ngs
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  • to the United States Information Agency Advisory Commission; LBJ’s decision to not run in 1968; Vietnam propagandist and censor Barry Zorthian; Hoyt’s trip to Vietnam; John Vann; LBJ’s “credibility gap”; LBJ’s press secretaries; LBJ’s personality
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was one of those newsmen that never did take a hard-and-fast dovish stand and I still support him in great measure on the Vietnam War issue. I never faulted him completely on that and I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
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  • ; reputation as a hawk in Vietnam erroneous; Robert Kintner; rivalry between RFK and LBJ; Presidential press secretaries; LBJ seeking professional advice on TV style; conscious of Texas twang; Barry Goldwater; George Wallace; 3/31 speech; evaluation of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of years you talk to people at Travis Air Force Base in California, or you talk to people at Fleet Marine Force Headquarters in Hawaii, or even in Vietnam. And you talk to people--you have no idea what they look like--but you become acquainted with them
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  • Biographical information; administrative assistant to Jim Cross; duties at the White House; Bob Taylor; Clint Hill; Art Godfrey; overseas flights; Presidential trips to Vietnam; communication equipment on Air Force One; impact of jet age on office
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • reading a lot of stuff about his responsibility for this Vietnam War. He inherited that damned war! I've cut a tape for President Kennedy, and I've made it clear on that tape, I don't know what they've done with it, but the first combat troops were sent
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  • First impressions of LBJ; legislative accomplishments as President; opinions on the Vietnam War; similarity between LBJ as a Senate leader and Halleck as a House leader; friendship with LBJ; LBJ and Eisenhower; LBJ and the vice presidency; LBJ
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and was always glad to offer his services in particular missions. M: I was going to say, he made a couple of rather well-publicized trips abroad. Did you have anything to do with either the one to Vietnam or the one to Germany that he made as Vice President
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  • and Mr. Kiesinger; Adenauer’s visit to the LBJ Ranch; reunification; effects of Vietnam War on Germany opinion; ambassador-at-large; Director of American aid to Greece and Turkey, 1947-1949.
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • think he lt/as being pretty straight with you. C: Yes. M: You were speaking out publicly against the involvement in Vietnam by early 1965. Was there some event or some administrative action specifically that made you determined to take that stand
  • Vietnam
  • 1968 welcome to Senate phone call from LBJ; Hells Canyon power bill; description of how Senate business is conducted; LBJ's explanation of his role in nomination for VP in 1968; LBJ and Vietnam conflict; LBJ's capacity for generosity and his
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in a warning about the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. I believe you told me off the tape that he, too, had already spoken out on this, even earlier. B: Yes. M: Could you tell me a little bit about that, and how he came to think that way? B: He felt
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  • passed; Alaska's vote for Nixon in 1960; Vietnam War
Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • arose out of it regarding your views on Vietnam and your expressing them. Before you went on the tour, did you talk with anyone at the State Department like Mr. Frankel in the Cultural and Educational Bureau about this kind of thing? T: Tell me about
Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • decent person. M: The best known -- I don't know if it's famous or infamous -- project with which your university was connected in the 50s was the Vietnam project that Michigan State University did. Did Mr. Johnson ever have any connection
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • remained that as President? H: I think he did up until the last two years of his Presidency--or even maybe a shorter length of time than that. When the Vietnam War began to overshadow everything else, then I think he lost his ability to get the Congress
  • Vietnam
  • to JFK regarding RFK and Senator Fulbright; supported foreign aid for 19 years; first one to propose selling wheat to Russia; LBJ’s accomplishments on domestic side will outweigh Vietnam War.
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : It was very good, yes, as far as I know. F: By the time '68 comes around, of course, Mr. Johnson has Vietnam on his Everything went fine. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that episode later? By that time, you were already, through you activities in foreign affairs, one of the well-known critics of the policy in Vietnam. Regarding your foreign affairs service and work on that committee, was there some specific episode in regard
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  • LBJ's commitment to civil rights; 1967 Detroit riots; opposition to Vietnam bombing policy; reorganization of the District of Columbia
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Johnson friction between the Kennedy and Johnson people. Do you have any insight into that? P: If there was, that's a good illustration. And undoubtedly if there wasn't then, it certainly developed thereafter, and Vietnam was the occasion for it. I
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  • ; Peabody’s support for Humphrey; tear gas bombing incident; HHH getting the nomination but losing the election; Vietnam rioters; Peabody’s high regard for LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the 187th Airborne Combat Team as a brigadier, and I was a lieutenant colonel by then. So then when the Vietnam thing came along and he went over there with [Paul] Harkins and later inherited the COMUSMACV [Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command
Oral history transcript, Guy S. Meloy III, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: GUY S. MELOY INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Meloy's office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: General, could you begin by telling us when you were first assigned to South Vietnam? M: My first tour in Vietnam was from early March
  • for his assignment in Vietnam; the state of Vietnam task force training and equipment upon Meloy's arrival; water supplies in Vietnam; Meloy's problems dealing with other U.S. advisers in Vietnam; Vietnamese military cooking methods and diet; camaraderie
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • going to see it. Just how we got into Vietnam is still a mystery to me. But I'm pretty sure that part of it [was due to] certain types of expectations. They had that idiotic domino theory, which I don't think a sensible man would have accepted under any
  • Choosing the 1964 vice presidential candidate; LBJ’s secrecy; 1964 campaign and speeches; LBJ’s personality; Barry Goldwater; the $100 billion budget; credibility gap; Bobby Baker; LBJ’s humor; Gulf of Tonkin episode; Vietnam; misleading information
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ladd -- II -- 5 from Lang Vei, and it was right on the river separating Laos and the north part of South Vietnam. So I flew up there in a helicopter
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • Katzenbach as attorney general; presidents’ interaction with the State Department; May 1966 trip to Chicago; LBJ’s opinions of the U.S. role in Vietnam; LBJ’s assessment of his own staff; Tonkin Gulf resolution; Lindley Rule and press access to LBJ
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about the Commission. But these were the times when he was very much involved with Vietnam, and it would range over--I've had this story--but it wouldn't be a conversation, it would just [be that] I was essentially there--or others I'm sure had similar
  • morning private meetings where LBJ would verbalize his thoughts on Vietnam and other topics; Tex Thornton's, Roy Wilkins', and other people's work on the Commission; partisanship within the Commission; criticism that the Commission did not publicize
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • rounds of it--with Wilson, and with Truman, and the '30's, and now this round about Vietnam. I think by and large the majority of the country accepts our foreign policy with common sense, not very happily, but accepts it as inevitable. I think
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  • for Vietnam
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Ba : I think it was, The reference you made awhile back about--you mentioned in connection with France's policies "in our case"--would that have been a reference to our Vietnam involvement? B : No, because at that time Vietnam was scarcely
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • over Clifton's place? C: That's correct. I took General Clffton's place, and I had three fine lads that went to work for me. One of them was already there; he was a Marine; he's presently in Vietnam. now; he was a major at the time. General
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  • on board presidential aircraft; maintenance and security for Air Force One; service as combat pilot in Vietnam; description of the 1967 round-the-world trip with LBJ
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . 1981 INTERVIEWEE: EDWARD G. LANSDALE INTERVIEWER: TED GITTINGER PLACE: General Lansdale's home. McLean. Virginia Tape G: of 2 General Lansdale, we were discussing some of the reform programs in South Vietnam while you were there. Did you advise
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that wasn't going to be terribly weak but one that wasn't going to be awfully strong either. No one at that time could foresee that Vietnam was going to kick up as much as it kicked up. tax reductions. And so it was deemed desirable to have some further Now
  • Vietnam
  • Vietnam; 6% surcharge; Wilbur Mills; Emile VanLennap; Chairman Mahon; IRS; Sheldon Cohen; Stan Surrey; Henry Ford; Sidney Weinberg; gold rush; financing difficulty; Paul Volcker; Ed Snyder; Heller-Pechman plan; Presidential press conference
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • .the full-length speech entitled, "The United States Should Get Out of Vietnam." It was a full-length speech, and it was the first statement made by anybody in public life. Being an old newspaperman, I knew it was news, and I fully expected to see
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  • Met LBJ as a delegate when LBJ was Senate Majority Leader; October 1963 attack on JFK for sending helicopter pilots as advisers in Vietnam; deception practiced through; Gruening the first Senator to publicly oppose the War in Vietnam; Tonkin
Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for cooperative activities, but that wasn't basically changed. I: You mentioned in one of your books how upset the Japanese were, particularly in the early part of our Vietnam escalation in 1965. Was there adequate consultation, or any consultation
  • Vietnam
  • reaction to crucial U.S. decisions; exchanging his role as Asian scholar for that of ambassador; importance of early action to avoid later crisis; SEATO; attempts to minimize the bad Japanese-American relations; the Vietnam War and why U.S. methods didn’t
Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • -to-face meeting or not I'm not clear. The circumstances are this way. My recollections were refreshed by him when he was twisting my arm about taking this Vietnam assignment,* which would be about December of 1967. He recalled that he wanted, while he
  • for a post-war development plan for South Vietnam; Lilienthal's skepticism on Vietnam quelled; effect of pacification programs; advising JFK on foreign aid; William Fulbright; Walt Rostow; James Rowe; HHH; RFK; Adlai Stevenson; Eleanor Roosevelt; Nguyen Cao
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • became chairman of the Governors Conference and would make every statement about Vietnam that Johnson asked him to make. Ranch and so forth. And Johnson used to bring him down to the But this was the first time he'd ever met him. He LBJ Presidential
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  • relationship with the press; Hugh Sidey; LBJ’s fondness for neatness and 'experts'; Peter Lisagor; Bill Moyers as press secretary; James Moyers; Merriman Smith; LBJ’s secrecy; LBJ’s first trip to Vietnam and the 1967 around the world trip; LBJ meeting wounded
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , there was beginning to be great disaffection for our Vietnam policy, not just among the liberals, but a lot of politicians were beginning to be concerned about it. Dick Daley was concerned about it, for example; I mean, he wasn't going to publicly say
  • Vietnam
  • for LBJ; comparison of the White House social life of the Kennedys and the Johnsons; Kappel Commission and reorganization of the Post Office; defection of top level appointees regarding Vietnam policy; Larry O’Brien’s opposition to Vietnam policy
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • weapons used by North Hanoi and North Vietnam to prolong the war--between the time we had the first vote and the time it came back to the House and we had the last vote, the tragedy of Dallas had occurred. I remember very well Majority Leader Mansfield
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  • ; wheat sales; briefing of Foreign Relations Commission; coolness between Senator Fulbright and LBJ; OAS; Panama; LBJ’s role in Vietnam; Consular Treaty; Atlantic Alliance; DeGaulle; North American Alliance; NATO; Parliamentarian Conference in Brussels
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • such a splash on the Vietnam War? I heard some criticism that Hoopes wasn't at the center of the decision-making. Was there a tendency to be more authoritative in your statements when you weren't so close, as against the people who were closer and saw
Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • suggesting different ideas, and he came in. That was in the early part of 1965 and he was troubled by the Vietnam she talked to us. ~~ar then, so Then he got into the act, as they say, and began to talk about the problems of the big cities and the war