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Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . And then it goes on to prescribe corrective measures, but they don't really make much sense. before. They are what they'd been saying For example, instead of, "We're going to win the war in the shortest possible time," which were the buzz words associated
  • activity through computer capability; CIA; Robert Komer and pacification; the Tet Offensive; Westmoreland press briefing after Tet; the media; infiltration; the importance of Cambodia; Sihanouk; problem of interpretation of intelligence; body counts; Sam
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • First duties and associates in Vietnam; III ARVN Corps; the problem of counterintelligence duty in Hawaii; early buildup of the Vietnam War; background of the war; the Oriental soldier; return to Vietnam in 1967; briefing preparation for McNamara
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Johnson saying something about General LeMay. C: Well, it actually dates back to an earlier time than the presidency; it goes back to when he was the vice president. G: That's fine. C: I had been associated with the Vice President about four or five
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • we're doing, of course, is just trying to fill in pieces here and there in the affair. We have your book on Alaska and its coming to statehood, and so I thought we'd just emphasize your association with Johnson in this. When did you first meet him? G
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • worthy of note that my boy was endorsed by the District of Columbia Bar Association. And I say he was, in my book, eminently qualified. He'd gone to St. Albans here in Washington, he'd gone to Williams College in Massachusetts, graduated, went
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • accommodations section of it, I think it is called. B: Did he ever explain to you his reasoning for pressing it? S: No, he didn't. I believe that Lyndon Johnson had a sincere conviction that what he was doing was in the best interest of the country
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was still sufficiently junior upon the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that I was not often called to the White House for briefings upon any of those matters. My active participation and association with Mr. Johnson and the people in the White House
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with incomes of over $200,000 who didn't pay any taxes at all. I don't think the American people are going to stand for this much longer." This was a great cause celebre, and it ran in the press and it ran allover the place--just ran and ran and ran. F
  • Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with me, placed great emphasis on the need for helping the people as well as for destroying the Viet Cong. He wanted rural electrification programs in Vietnam; he kept pressing for a whole series of developmental initiatives. Well, out of all
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and that he had a letter of introduction from the Boston bar association to the president of the Saigon bar assocation. And I was thinking to myself, "Jesus Christ! This is going to be very, very interesting." But he was going to be their lawyer; he
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • debated it for one entir e week, besides the prelim i narie s and the buildups and the inser tions in the Record and the debates in the public press . We starte d on Monday and I don't believ e we finish ed that bill until late Frida y night . I
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , he and others tried to persuade the Democratic leadership, without success, that it should propose a Democratic alternative legislative program. So in late January 1957, eighty liberal House members--most of whom later were DSG leaders-associated
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on Saturday morning with the other appointees and Mrs. Johnson. As we arrived the President was holding a press conference at which he announced our appointments and we spent the rest of the morning with the President, had lunch with him and Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . M: Somebody picked up the information that you are associated with a firm called Peabody, Kaufman and Brewer. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , then know it was going to be surface-to-air missiles and all that it turned out to be . And we associated Kosygin's visit in early February, with sort of refo rmalizing good relations, good Communist-bloc relations, between Moscow and Hanoi . So
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • associated with that program. P: Does one of these stand out in your mind? F: Yes. It must have been in the spring of '67. The President the preceding fall had ordered a halt to new construction projects, not only in the Army's civil works program
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • budget, which I have published for many years, which the National Planning Association has published for many years, which some other organizations have published--that is an example of what should be in the economic report as the integral starting point
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in conservation. R: Over 50 years. I was a member of the old American Game Association, and I was on the Advisory Committee of the Biological Survey. I was on the Commis sion to buy refuges - -the National Migratory Bird Commission to buy refuges and pass
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was gone, MACV publicized--they had also been very secretive up to this time. The day I was up north they probably thought I was going to go find the press and tell them all about it. thing from my mind. Farthest The worst thing that could have happened
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Marine guards or some sort of uniformed people standing along the aisle keeping the people back. But the people wanted to press forward and we had to move very swiftly to get through and into the other ballroom and back again. As I recall then we danced
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • out to Saigon in your capacity there. Z: That's right. M: The description given by your predecessor, John Mecklin, which is in some detail, describes the difficulties, credibility gap or so on that existed between the press and the.government out
  • Press relations
  • Assignment to Saigon; Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge acts as his own press officer; Vietnam press relations an issue at the Honolulu conference of 1964; unifying press relations functions in JUSPAO; the maximum candor policy; origin of the "Five
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Moyers, who was President Johnson's press secretary, ber in the process of interviewing for that article, and I remem- sometime in the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Biographical information; preparation for covering Vietnam; reflections on McNamara; the Caravelle Hotel; recollections of Thich Tri Quang; the Buddhist movement and the Ky government; press policy in Vietnam; opinion of Ky; elections in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • was ready to join the group, probably in Brazil, it had become clear from the local accounts in the press here, that the press at least was treating the Kennedy trip through Latin America as a sort of assault on the Johnson interpretation of the Alliance
  • Senator Robert Kennedy’s press secretary, 1966; Kennedy’s 1967 trip to Paris and rumor of a 'peace feeler'; animosity between LBJ and Kennedy; Mankiewicz urging Kennedy to become a presidential candidate in 1968(?)
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • with that, but the public relations officer, who was Major General [Winant] Sidle, said, "Well, you've got to think about this, General Abrams, that the press is going to say that now that Westmoreland is gone, you're changing his strategy, and you're going to get a lot
  • ; General Abrams; the press; Robert Komer; comparison of McChristian and Davidson; opinion of VC; Tet and predictions of its occurrence
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --disagreement, within the embassy, and that the embassy was not leaking like a sieve, although when you have that sort of disagreement, the likelihood of leaks, I suppose, increases. What was the status of our relations with the press in Saigon at this time? F
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • ] as long as we have the freedom that we have. our standpoint, this never was a major issue. And from The press would debate, argue, interpret, and put their interpretation on the figures. G: I was thinking specifically of the poverty program. The face
  • Folklore of LBJ; statistics and the press; George Christian; 1968 campaign; Moyers
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the times I spent with him. M: In the early period it would seem to me there were questions of his relationships with the press. That may have been a recurring theme. H: It was. M: I think you told me that he was very much concerned that he wasn't
  • to the United States Information Agency Advisory Commission; LBJ’s decision to not run in 1968; Vietnam propagandist and censor Barry Zorthian; Hoyt’s trip to Vietnam; John Vann; LBJ’s “credibility gap”; LBJ’s press secretaries; LBJ’s personality
Oral history transcript, Julian J. Ewell, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . overdramatize things. Of course, the press tends to I guess it's just endemic to the press. So I don't think it was anywhere near as dramatic as they painted it, but if you looked at the Hamlet Evaluation System numbers, which were not ideal but the best you
  • Biographical information regarding Vietnam tour of duty; post-Tet to pre-invasion of Cambodia; Delta; Long An; Dinh Tuong occupations by Viet Cong; TO & E NVA units and Viet Cong main force; press and TV coverage of Vietnam War; body count; Hamlet
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : No, I don't. G: Can we talk about the press a little bit? That was a very lively None at all. topic, too, I think. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • by them. They became our first-rate sources, and the pessimism and the doubts that fed into that press corps came first and foremost not from dissident Vietnamese politicians, as people later claimed, or this political group or that group in Saigon
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the United States. And I attribute this primarily to the press coverage at that time and to the dissident groups here in the United States, who were following the Hanoi line and had been before that. I went out to Vietnam late in February, about the twenty
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • This was absolute anathema to all those on high, with the possible exception of George Ball. When Lyndon Johnson in his John Mr. Rusk was the worst offender. Ho~kins speech spoke of'~nconditional discussions," Mr. Rusk took the press aside afterwards, I
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; briefing LBJ while VP; Indochina; Vietnam; Diem; Roger Hilsman; William Bundy; Mac Bundy; John McNaughton; Interagency Planning Staff; Tonkin Gulf Resolution; peace negotiations; press leaks; bombing; "Why
Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • know. They'd believe what they hear. There was a lot of speculation--I'm not sure when it begins, but from very early times--about advisers engaging in combat. We were constantly, I understand, having to reassure the press that this was not the case
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a mission in and because for American reporters covering Phnom Penh the war, we rarely went anyplace where there was a North Vietnamese possible contact, just about everybody who went to Phnom Penh least a pass in at and the guy, day, in the press
  • Time limit in dealing with Vietnamese situation; the Tet Offensive; Weyand's role; press reaction; impact of Tet on South Vietnamese forces; intelligence; Cronkite's visit to Vietnam; the pacification programs; decision to write Tet!; subsequent
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , really. The American public and the press doesn't, I don't think. So therefore the public should learn much about it, what a war of national liberation is all about. That's a technique that the Soviets developed a long time ago. They've perfected
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wouldn't say Khanh leveled with him on the preparation--but whom Khanh sought out the minute the fat was in the fire, yes. G: You don't recall the name, do you? F: I don't, but it's a matter of public record. time. It was in the press at the LBJ
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 was very strongly for his selection as Vice President. I remember going on the floor of the convention in Los Angeles, [and] making a statement to the press that this showed the wisdom of our new President in selecting
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the press. I saw that, and 1 talked 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
  • ; Rather’s comments on LBJ’s choice of advisors; evaluation of LBJ’s press secretaries: Reedy, Moyers and Christian; LBJ’s role pertaining to Kosygin and Middle East; LBJ as a role model to rather in gathering all information available and representing hard