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Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Fascinating. Now I I think we were going to talk about when you were USIA director and Vietnam. M: The story that I told Merle Miller that I wanted to report to you was this. You may recall that in the midst of the Vietnam controversy, Senator George
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; public educational broadcasting legislation; 1960 campaign; liaison with Eastern states; vice presidential nomination; media campaign; LBJ and JFK in New York; LBJ and television; Cuban Missile Crisis; USIA; Vietnam
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • succeed the Presidency; comparison of Truman and LBJ’s preparedness on accession to Presidency; LBJ’s meetings with Congressman; Vietnam; legislation passed under LBJ; Larry O’Brien; 3/31 announcement; LBJ’s motives for withdrawing; LBJ’s weaknesses
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , or that he felt deeply needed to be done. And in most instances, for those first several, well, first fe\"1 years, he was successful. M: Do you have any opinion about his position on Vietnam versus or in relation to the congressional position on Vietnam
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and talk to Mr. Johnson on into the next spring of 1964? W: The only times that talked with the President were during the times that he invited all the governors to come for briefings on Vietnam. And I've forgotten the dates of those briefings but I
  • Vietnam
  • F. Kennedy; the admission of Negroes into the University of Alabama; John F. Kennedy’s death; Wallace’s meetings with President Johnson; governors’ briefings on Vietnam; LBJ’s personality; Lurleen Wallace’s first trip to the White House as a governor
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , especially presidential election years. But there was always a foreign policy content in it, 'cause there's always some crisis of some kind. that grew more and more. Of course, as Vietnam grew, Those things were organized by--I'm not sure whether Salinger
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • helped a good deal, too. About that time, too, the escalation began in Vietnam. Obviously, that had a serious iQpact on the budgeting, but could you see in the budgeting process more and more involvement in Vietnam? 5: Oh, yes. [Yes, yes.] We saw
  • Vietnam
  • ; LBJ and the space program; Office of Economic Opportunity; the PPBS system; budgetary effects of Vietnam War; Defense Dept. and the budget; the power of the Budget Bureau; relationship between Budget Bureau directors and presidents; testifying before
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • [For interview 2 and 3] 1960 election and campaign; JFK administration; LBJ administration’s domestic and foreign policies and programs; Vietnam; postal service; powerful figures in Congress; reasons for LBJ’s decline in popularity.
Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there and the Ambassador had called me and said, tough one. F: "I'm hiding under my desk" I think it was a Well, we'll have to wait and see how history judges it. Then you made a famous, noteworthy speech in '67--a so-called hawk to dove speech on Vietnam. Did you get
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the trip, a very important purpose. What Kennedy wanted was a top presence to come down on Diem like a ton of bricks and tell him that he absolutely had to institute some reforms in Vietnam, that he could not get by in the dictatorial manner in which he had
  • , the East-West Cultural Center in Hawaii, and Vietnam; LBJ's behavior in Vietnam; LBJ's visit to the Philippines; meeting Chiang Kai-shek in Taipei; LBJ drinking too much in Thailand; LBJ's visit with Jawarharlal Nehru and travel in India; LBJ's visit
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • other things on his mind. \
  • Vietnam
  • relationship; 1934 congressional race; Task Force on Income Maintenance; Vietnam; task force recommendations
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of error to be made? They had the experience of Latin American difficulties in the Kennedy Administration to go by, certainly. Was it just inattention? M: I think it was just absent-mindedness, inattention. know, we were involved in Vietnam by then. You
Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • commitments in Vietnam that were hanging over him, which incidentally I think had been probably the foremost thing in this man's mind for certainly the last year. Near East. Also, the anxiety over what was going to happen in the He knew what it was like
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/12/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • to be faced with the onus of using nuclear weapons in order to be able to win a nonnuclear combat. P: I'd like to ask you some questions here on what effects the Vietnam conflict has had on research and development, in terms of what is directly attributable
  • ABM System; space; Functional Orbit Bombardment; Vietnam; F-III program; AMSA; Admiral Rickover
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • . In addition, we've had the development of the SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft which is being used in Southeast Asia and has turned out to be a very valuable source of photographic intelligence. P: Have some of these developed directly from Vietnam? You've had
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • we agreed to provide some assistance to that rice institute to try to proliferate the fast-growing rice that they had come up with, very prolific rice for Southeast Asia, for Malaysia, for Thailand and for Vietnam. They agreed to move some of that out
  • ; malfunctioning public address systems; foreign trips; Ambassador Ed Clark; Southeast Asian Conference in Manila; Tyler Abell; secret trip to Vietnam; examples of LBJ making last-minute decisions; problem in Seoul with setting up for a public appearance; Jim Adams
Oral history transcript, Sidney Dillon Ripley II, interview 1 (I), undated, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , but on condition that we would understand that we would not proceed with further requests for funding until after the Vietnam War was over. B: Incidentally, sir, this question may be totally off base, but you served in Southeast Asia in World War II. Have you
Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the tenure of his stay there from the time when he began. G: What view of [Ngo Dinh] Diem did he have when he began his tenure? 0: Well, you have to remember that when we went in to Vietnam it was the time of the immolation of the Buddhists, the self
Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • Department and legislation; White House staff; meeting with LBJ regarding Medicare; infant mortality rate; National Health Insurance; future of PHS; international health; Vietnam; Honolulu Conference; World Health Assembly; U.S. role in international health.
Oral history transcript, Felipe Herrera, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , from an international point of view--particularly the Vietnam crisis. So of course I understand that the pressure on him came more from other areas. But leaving that aside, I would say theoretically he was very pro-Latin America. type of emotional
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • ; LBJ’s attitudes about reporters and television networks; LBJ and Rather’s discussion upon Rather’s return from Vietnam; comments about Rostow’s Vietnam briefing; failure of military intelligence; Joint Chiefs of Staff conspiracy and Rostow’s involvement
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • either the relationship with the Soviet Union or the peace process in Vietnam to the results he had hoped to achieve by the end of his presidency. We had many conversations about that. I remember that in November, probably during the Thanksgiving period
  • LBJ’s frustration at the end of his presidency, especially regarding the Soviet Union and Vietnam; LBJ’s attempt to meet with Nixon and Soviets; Urban League dinner in New York; LBJ’s concern over press coverage of anti-war, anti-LBJ picketing; sale
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • saying you'd go around the table? C: Well, Vietnam came up. Since these were academics, it would come up at every meeting, in greater or lesser degree. They were not happy with it. We were now drafting a lot of people and they were feeling
Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the feeling toward the end of that time in the late 1960s, that as a result of all of the problems of Vietnam that the committee was somewhat less influential than it had been in the earlier part of that period. The 1950s I would characterize as a period
  • stockpiling; economic aid to the Middle East; the decision to place the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado; deliberations regarding sending military forces to Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam; support for Republic of China's President Chiang Kai-shek
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 K: Well, I think that the main reason is the fiscal stringency resulting from the war in Vietnam. The second reason is that many
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; First meeting with LBJ; first impressions of LBJ; establishment of National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities; effects of Vietnam War; not close to LBJ; controversy over Meredith Wilson; no connection with the White
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , it seems to me that Lyndon Johnson has a high place in the history of liberal and progressive government in this country. M: Do you think he has made a mistake, however, in the case of the Vietnam War? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 14 world, including helping in Vietnam through the past several years with some of the pacification activities that have been taking place there. I believe, Dr. Baker
  • Vietnam
  • ; AID and international program activities; pollution; legislation drafting process; Vietnam; personnel recruitment; racially integrated staff
Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • during your time at all? C: It was slightly. When I made my farewell visit to Rapacki, the Polish Foreign Minister, without instructions I suggested to Rapacki that they were in a very good position to help the cause of peace in Vietnam. I pointed out
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in Hanoi-had a respect of the Vietnamese. But the others. I visited them in the three Associated States over in Laos and Cambodia as well as Vietnam, and in every other command the Vietnamese were--or natives, the Laos, the Khmer, the Cambodians--were
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Oh, yes, that It always interested me and I told him when he was president; I said, "You know, you amaze me because I disagreed on Vietnam. And he would always quote -- in later years, too, liThe Joint Chiefs of Staff said this . . . " And I said
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and ask you a few more questions about that, did the acceleration of the Vietnam War give you increasing difficulties with the budget? Did you have to shift resources? Z: In two phases. First, somewhere in 1967 I guess, when Schultze was budget
  • Impact of the Vietnam War on the budget; the surcharge issue; the Ways and Means Committee demands a budget cut; Congressman Tom Curtis; Wilbur Mills and George Mahon work out a compromise with LBJ, Fowler, and Zwick; Wilbur Mills evaluated; budget
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • price policy; union democracy; stockpiling; Direct Investment Program; balance of payments; transition; cabinet committee work on post-planning for economic consequences of the end of Vietnam War
Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to see if we could identify what the problem was. I remember seeing I think Bundy--not Mac Bundy but Bill Bundy was there--so it couldn't have been Vietnam. M: Narrow it down one by one. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • home district, couldn't yo u? P: Every ·way that yo u wanted it. He d a1so ca 11 the congressmen down for 1 br i efi ngs sessions at t he Whi te House. small and large. He would have them in groups, If he was t alking about Vietnam or if he
  • Vietnam
  • , and Kilgore in the 1964 campaign; LBJ seeks to win big in 1964; LBJ and RMN contrasted; LBJ and the Congress; LBJ relaxes after hours; dominoes; LBJ during the Tet Offensive; defends LBJ's Vietnam policy
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was definitely on the wrong track, and America is suffering today because of it. B: So far as one can tell, sir, do you feel that his response in Vietnam has been adequate, strong enough? M: Absolutely not, not so long as--. First, let me say, I think we
  • Vietnam
  • Support of Nixon and Goldwater; contact with LBJ; LBJ and civil rights; Pickrick Restaurant affair; Secretary Gardner; 1968 election; unseating Georgia delegation in 1968 convention; evaluation of LBJ as President; involvement in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • down, and read him the riot act. He had mentioned a dirty word--Vietnam--the Bulgarian ambassador. And LBJ talked for an hour. I interpreted practically simultaneously. It didn't bother LBJ, because he was deaf in one ear, or very hard of hearing in one
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , "I'm going to make you my man on the other war in Vietnam." But in the period before [this] I guess my service with President Johnson falls very easily into these two groups: my service in the Bundy office and then gratefully as Bundy's acting
  • Vietnam
  • opinions to negotiate better politically; summarizing State Department briefings on foreign visitors for LBJ; problems between India and Pakistan; getting involved with Vietnam; the December1965 37-day bombing halt; George Ball and the Cyprus situation; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • Long; Walter Lippman; Vietnam debate; role as Administration's spokesman; White House briefings; differences between JFK and LBJ; Dominican situation; relationship between LBJ and Fulbright
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of things. G: Did Vietnam come up at all that night? K: Yes. Vietnam came up and he talked about the fact that he had the support of I remember Max Taylor particularly, who was on Meet The Press over that weekend. The support generally--this was not yet
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • ; Committee for the Preservation of the White House; the White House crèche; highway beautification bill; Mike Mansfield; the death of President Holt of Austalia; traveling from Australia to Vietnam and Rome with LBJ; visiting the Vatican; LBJ’s decision
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 2 (II), 2/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of your ambassadorship was the various activities you conducted in connection with the several peace-feeler initiatives in connection with Vietnam. Did that start almost immediately with the [Averell] Harriman visit in Christmas of 1965? G: Yes