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Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Michael L.Gillette PLACE: Ms. Bonanno's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: I guess as you go into this last period, the two things that always end up being most real in your memories are his trying to make a deal with the Soviets and Vietnam
  • LBJ's attempts at negotiation with the USSR and North Vietnam; LBJ's treatment of Hubert Humphrey in the final months of LBJ's administration; Humphrey's personality; LBJ's decision to not attend the Democratic National Convention and support
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, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • hard to talk about any of these issues without talking about what was going on in Vietnam, what was going on in civil rights, what was going on with students in the country. I think he was very concerned about all the disruption and chaos, and he might