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Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: All right, sir. Is it accurate to say that your first involvement in intelligence regarding Vietnam was when you were at USARPAC? D: Yes. That's true. You don't watch it with the single focus that the J-2 MACV watches it, because that's the whole

Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. M: And how long have you been in that pOSition, sir? W: I've been here since the first of January 1968. M: For the last year of the Johnson Administration, then. At the beginning of the Johnson Administration, you were commanding in the I

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

thing. G: All right, sir. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DePuy

. But it was routine in the sense, as I just told you, that at the same time there were many, many ships at sea worldwide doing the same thing. G: Yes, sir. Is it fair, as has been done, to characterize the patrol of the Maddox as part of a program of--pressures

; that it was not really parochial interservice bickering as sometimes it was described. But it was a question of two contending strategies of great national importance. To air the issue in this way would be a profitable and useful exercise. P: And did you air it, sir

become a political football in which we've been unjustly criticized. Although I must say that many times the criticism of the foreigners has simply echoed the criticism of our own press here at home. M: The phrase "credibility gap" has so much centered

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

hundred forty thousand, is that correct, General?" And General DePuy said yes. He said, "You've killed eighty thousand of them according to your statistics, is that correct?" "Yes, sir, that's correct." "Now, General, you have been in combat," which

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 was to say, ·'Yes, sir!" I didn't give it a second thought. I did point out that all my experience was in the Middle East, and I

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: BARRY ZORTHIAN INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: The Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: All right, sir. When we left off, I believe we were talking about the Tet Offensive, the impact of the Tet Offensive on public opinion and so

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 28, 1969 M: Let's begin by just identifying you, sir. You're Joseph Alsop, a syndicated columnist at the present time and author of numerous books, and you've been doing this same type work for long enough to watch

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, if they moved back into Laos or Cambodia, we still carried them; we didn't drop them. G: Once you put them on the OB [order of battle], they were there? 0: That's right. And to the best of my memory, nobody, none of the North Vietnamese ever went home

to their homes on leave for the Tet holidays. The propaganda put out by the enemy, the captured PWs, defectors, and captured documents made very clear what the enemy objectives were. believed they could achieve these objectives. And they apparently had First

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Well, I was just telling you that I went in to see him, and one of the things that he poignantly asked me was, "Are the mil itary planning a COUp?" And I looked at him and I said, "Yes, sir, I think they are." G: What did you base that on? P: Just

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

there's so much background noise in the intelligence . You have to pick out what's important and what's not and put it together . Douglas Pike at all at this Were you talking to time, or was he still around? the LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

by the home that General Harkins lived in. pondent saying, "There it is. And that corres- There's where that son of a bitch lives," and waving his clenched fist at him. It was that kind of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. But we were looking for signs of hostility Of course, there was the Dallas Morning News of that morning, with a very unfriendly ad. IIYankee. Go Home" and so forth. mostly friendly. We saw signs like, But the crowd at the airport was Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: DOUGLAS PIKE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Pike's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Would you recount how you came to enter government service? P: I worked for the United Nations in Korea during the Korean War and then came
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clearly it has added to divisiveness at home; it has added to divisiveness in the other portions of our alliance structure; we've paid heavily psychologically, politically, and materially, and in casualties in connection with the defense of South Vietnam

that they should be and at the same time keep a one-year rotation pol icy, \'/hich has proved to be a very great morale factor among the troops. In other words, they know they are going to go there for one year, and then they come home. I say, we are over

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