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- very concerned about the VietNam situation, which Ild known something about because we were asked in 1950 to put a mission under the Marshall Plan into Indochina. against it. After considering it, we decided We decided at that time in which
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- to the President on international relations; Vietnam; Allende government; conservation; no strong anti-LBJ at the UN
- that will be great. F: Oh, I think the Vietnam War will recede in importance one of these days, taking the long gun-sight. C: But Lyndon was right about the Vietnam War. Two nights ago I had dinner with a fellow named Henry Taylor. Henry Taylor is a conservative
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- in regard to Vietnam; how making college more accessible hurt the military and its academies; the inability of the military to attract well-qualified candidates; Corcoran's work in the 1968 presidential campaign.
- in Vietnam. I went to Fulbright. to say that I had no problems on the Hill. F: Your confirmation was just routine. M: It was routine. It was very affable. Because we I am pleased My confirmation was just--- As a matter of fact, when I was appointed
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
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- felt should be supportive [and] wasn't, that was a personal affront. He dwelled on it. That was his nature, as he dwelled on Vietnam and personalized Vietnam to the last pilot. Did he get back safely? It was similarly the case with the legislative
- became ambassador to South Vietnam; Homer Thornberry's appointment to a judgeship; Carl Rowan as ambassador to Finland; Chester Bowles' and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.'s appointments; White House responses to opposition from civilians as opposed
- to the ESEA 25 The White House exerted power on the Democratic members of Congress 27 "Cre di bi Ii ty gap" 28 White House briefing 29 The Great Society; Vietnam War, Tonkin Resolution 32 Quie interpretation of Johnson as President LBJ Presidential
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- ; 89th Congress; Civil Rights Bill; 1964 convention; OEO; legislation; Quie amendments; Great Society; Vietnam War; LBJ as President
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- ? W: Certainly. He made all these trips to Vietnam, Pakistan and Europe and the Berlin Wall. There isn't any doubt about it. I think it lifted him clear out of his strictly state character and made a national figure out of him. It's hard
- East peace formula; the Jarring mission; the Vietnam issue in the UN; the Czechoslovakian crisis; LBJ assess the prospects for peace in Vietnam, late in his administration; Ne Win suggest suspending the bombing of North Vietnam was a mistake
- written to Chuck Percy and said that President Johnson's son-in-law, Captain Robb, had been in charge of a platoon that staged an even bigger massacre in Vietnam. I was not familiar with this story myself, but Johnson said that Percy, instead of calling
- Pucinski's political career; Pucinski's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ's support for Pucinski in a 1972 Senate race against Charles Percy; allegations of misconduct against Charles Robb in Vietnam; a trip to Chicago with Vice President Johnson
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- 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
- critical, and I did not authorize a good many taps that were requested in that area. And he was under very great pressure from Vietnam and all, and the military establishment, and from National Security Administration, the CIA, and the other agencies who
- in the team. J: Well, I was on the National Security Council at the time, as you know, on the staff in charge of Far East affairs, so I had been working on Vietnam for quite a few years, [for] three steadily and before that for a couple of years, in and out
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- Selection of the team to go to Paris to negotiate with North Vietnam; Averell Harriman; Cyrus Vance; Philip Habib; organizing the trip to Paris; failure to make serious progress in Paris; debates regarding “the shape of the table”; portraying news
- . Yesterday or day before I had a meeting with the top brass"--meaning of course the military--"and they urged and insisted if I just give them twenty-five or fifty thousand more men that it would get this Vietnam thing behind us pretty fast. And I just had
- , Humphrey-Nixon, they had a kind of ad hoc arrangement where Johnson was concerned about whether Humphrey was going to keep his feet to the fire on Vietnam, and Nixon was obviously saying we have to persevere and had his own plan and so on. But Johnson's
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- that period of time have been performed by my principal deputy, Mr. P: [Ralph] Earle [II]. Mr. Warnke, how much do you think that our commitment in Vietnam has LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
- have a sense of participating." And you get the basic puritan ethic of the American people where you've got to suffer a little when you're enjoying things, and the idea that people could be dying off in Vietnam and you're sitting at home and watching
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
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- around here and that is nobody who works for me says, publicly or privately, a single word against the General." I thought [that] was more than magnanimous because in 1965 the General had gone to Phnom Penh and stood there on the border of Vietnam
- . Now in the conduct of his office itself, I'm not qualified to say. M: Given your experience, which at least in some ways was parallel to the Vietnam conflict, did he ever ask your advice or solicit your opinions regarding that? P: He did
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- was it mainly agriculture? V: Well, agriculture and military things, as well as anything affecting the oil industry and foreign matters. War. I supported him in the Vietnam I was opposed to getting into it in the first place but I felt that it was something
- the answers, but I've just got to be the best prepared man in the room. M: You also got some publicity for supporting Johnson's Vietnam policy in 1966. B: 1965. M: This may sound like an embarrassing question. I don't mean it that way, but was there any
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- Vietnam policy; post-presidency contacts and work with LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson and LBJ State Park; Hubert Humphrey's 1968 Texas campaign; LBJ's role in politics in post-presidency period
- , because they knew they were safe, and then they'd run them down into Vietnam during the night. Of course, they had marshalling yards up there. We would like to go in there and take pictures of them. As an example, one night--my backseater and I flew thirty
- and waterways in North Vietnam; radar use for night missions; General Jim Cross; events leading up to Stavast's airplane crash and imprisonment; SAMs (Surface-to-Air Missiles) torture and interrogation; Stavast's injuries; soldiers who died in captivity
- , despite the acrimonious and very public differences that came to light on Vietnam and on the foreign policy questions. But they functioned pretty well together. F: It was, I suppose, Senator Johnson as majority leader who pl aced Mr. Fulbright
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- Bird in 1964 campaign; Pacem in Terris convocation in NY; Dominican crisis; Stevenson-Johnson relationship; second Pacem in Terris convocation in Geneva; role of Center for Study of Democratic Institutions in Vietnam conflict; mission to North Vietnam
- to Vietnam after the pull-out from Laos and he wanted somebody to go out and buck up [President Ngo DinhJ Diem. President Kennedy told me that he had a terribly tough time persuading Lyndon Johnson to make LBJ Presidential Library http
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- potential as president; bitterness between Bobby Kennedy and LBJ; Bartlett's relationship with President Johnson and his White House staff; Vietnam War; Robert Kennedy's run for presidency; impressions of Kennedy family role in Johnson's selection of Kennedy
- assignment as chief of staff, MACV [Military Assistance Command, Vietnam]? K: Yes, I knew Westy. The first time I really got to know him pretty well [was] when he came to the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. At that point in time, I
- -- Interview II -- 7 we found up in central Vietnam a vestige of a program that we had supported of Popular Youth--or Popular Force, whatever it was called--which was teams going into villages. G: Is this [Nguyen] Khanh's old program? C: Yes. We set up a new
- by the military. And in Vietnam, whatever happened was on your television screen in living color daily. So President Johnson had to contend with having to fight that kind of a war, where it was very open and you had the public seeing it every day. In any case, I
- for the success of Vietnam plans outlined in the April 7, 1965, speech at Johns Hopkins University; the 1967 trip to Australia, Thailand, Pakistan, and Italy to see the Pope; LBJ's awareness of press frustrations.
- of everything he was doing was in the War on Poverty, Appalachia, and Vietnam. Saying that every kid in America who is educable ought to be able to get an education. If he couldn't afford it, if he could be educated, the government ought to find some way
- regarding Vietnam; LBJ's efforts to keep the budget under $100 billion; LBJ's credibility gap and LBJ's claim that his grandfather fought at the Alamo; LBJ's visits to Australia; Bobby Baker; George Reedy, Bill Moyers, and George Christian as press
- answer them directly. But Vietnam, for example, was not really a major issue. Labor unions, of course, were very pro our winning the war. That's really all I remember about that day, that it was kind of a typical labor, pro audience speech. G: Was he
- parents to a state dinner; negotiating the details of Paris peace talks with the North Vietnamese; Hubert Humphrey's lack of involvement in Vietnam peace talks; leaking information to the press; LBJ's secrecy; the issue of a ten per cent federal income
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- and 1965 he was a very cautious person but he nevertheless was a hawk on Vietnam. I think he may have expected a lot more of Diem, as many people did, than would ever have been possible. What most Americans did not realize and I didn't fully realize--I
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- to come back to that night of that meeting. Well, anyway, against that background, President Johnson, I find again around the world, gets very little credit for these matters. I suppose the Vietnam thing so blackens his reputation in a way around
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- House Conference on Civil Rights; Cliff Alexander; National Science Foundation Board; Jim Webb's acceptance of Administrator of NASA; campus unrest; Vietnam; Perkins Commission; Walt Rostow's Policy Planning Commission; Wise Men; role as Vatican
- strain in that relationship didn't come until considerably later. I remember there were a number of issues relating to the war in Vietnam that Senator Russell felt strongly about. One I think is maybe a minor example, but I remember it's a project
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- of Senate opposition to Vietnam policy from 1968-1973; 1968 riots; damage caused by the appointment of Alexander Lawrence as federal judge; Abe Fortas nomination to be Chief Justice; Southern strategy in approving 1968 open housing bill; oral history project
- anything in Vietnam. that a lot. I know he used to talk about But all I had to do was mention it to Chiang Ching-kuo and to the old Gimo [Chiang Kai-shek], and, boy, the sky was the limit. They would have deployed their whole army down there, although
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- ; discussions on Vietnam; LBJ and Vietnam; incidents preceding and following Gulf of Tonkin incident; Robert McNamara; use of intelligence support
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- have been--if we can divert for a moment on the Canadians--they have been rather patient and long-suffering and not altogether pleased about our relationships with them in connection with Vietnam. The Ronning mission and our failure to follow up
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- 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
- was in the Territory--the Vietnam War had heated up, and I think that I would have liked to go on to Vietnam. I wanted to at that time, but this would have meant probably another week or so of travel and, also, I was aware that there were so many people going
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- 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, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb
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- in Vietnam over the night, I've forgotten what, and he'd been getting calls and he'd been up all morning . But, as I say, some mornings he'd visit and ask about personal things, and sometimes he'd be busy and there would not be a word exchanged . Generally
- of dismantling and returning responsibilities to the states and cities. It might have been possible to rationalize and straighten it all out before Johnson left if it hadn't been for Vietnam; the predicament we had was that Vietnam overtook the domestic policy
- involvement in task force policy-making; Joe Califano; Wilbur Cohen; Califano and LBJ working at all hours at the White House; Vietnam overshadowing domestic policy; financial problems in domestic programs; morale in the Bureau of the Budget; Maurice Stans
- the specific things . I think it was something to do with the Vietnam War or the Middle East situation. M: This was the group that press sometimes refers to as the wise men or the elder statesmen or such names as that? B: Yes, but it wasn't official
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- ." This was Whitney Young wanting to go to Vietnam. Is this it? B: It's the twenty-first. G: Why did he want to go to Vietnam? C: I can't remember. The other thing here which I think is important, we really were fighting for the guidelines. I note here Wayne
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- have told me on the phone. God, there's a lot of stuff about Vietnam here. God, this is interesting. I don't understand it at all. "Ed Williams up here to represent unions." July 25, which began at six-thirty and ran until ten o'clock, I guess
- well. F: There wasn't any selling him on the idea? He bought that at the beginning? C: He bought the idea at the beginning. I'm trying to think in relationship--there was one other, when he was going out to Vietnam on one of these trips, but I
- knowledge and judgment, but I can see how Lodge might quite honestly have had some concern--and of course, this was in July of 1963. I suppose it would be fair to say the State Department had not quite yet put in its first team on Vietnam. It did later
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- Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C
- to Vietnam. And like any mother, father and daughter, there was sadness, efforts at expressing hopefulness and that kind of thing. But in those days Lynda had a very volatile personality, and like many of us one and two-child families, we spoke to our