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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
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  • Date > 1969-03-10 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that particularly interested me in terms of foreign policy. The service on the Foreign Relations Committee in those days came at a very meaningful time when the dialogue on Vietnam stepped up very, very materially. It coincided with the decisions in Hanoi to commit
  • Vietnam
  • Foreign Relations Committee; 1966 Vietnam trip; Tonkin Gulf Incident; schools of thought regarding LBJ; succeeding JFK; dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs; investigation of chain store situation; Chicago convention
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the 1966 budget was returned by the Budget Bureau that the first shock of the impact of Vietnam seeped in. a hammer blow! It didn't seep in, it hit with And I well recall that Joe Kershaw, the Director of Research Program Planning and Evaluation
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • side. But this is a very difficult question. I saw what I thought was a great deal of sheer mindless assault on the President. And I sometimes strongly suspected it was to defend a vested interest in anti-Vietnamism with which the man who held
  • Criticism of LBJ’s domestic programs and Vietnam War credibility gap; polls; DNC; Vietnam settlement; appraisal of LBJ; relationship with Lady Bird.
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to overcome poverty in the U.S.; impressions of Sargent Shriver and Shriver’s work with OEO; LBJ’s attitude toward OEO; how Vietnam affected all programs; the role of loyalty to LBJ in getting confirmation; overview of Perrin’s work with OEO.