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Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in Vietnam. We do know that Chloracne, this bad kind of acne you can get from the Agent Orange itself or from the dioxin. But all of these things about attention span, sexual performance, these things you can't quantitate. And then when the government comes
  • Vietnam
  • Agent Orange; health requirements for returning to the U.S. from Vietnam; self-inflicted wounds; drug use among soldiers in Vietnam; post-traumatic stress disorder and related problems; the psychological development of people before they join
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • went to Saigon. B: I started out in May 1966 as the New York Times Bangkok bureau chief, which essentially in theory kept me in Laos, Thailand and the rest of Southeast Asia outside Vietnam. But within a week of my arrival, I was happily in Vietnam
  • Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • by the realities of the power situation. G: Did you think that Vietnam should be brought before the Security Council? S: Well, there were two stages. I took over as assistant secretary under the Johnson Administration in September of I think 1967 [1965
  • The evolution of power in the United Nations (UN) from 1945 to 1983; the United States' power within the UN; the problem with giving each nation one vote; bringing Vietnam before the UN Security Council in the mid-1960s; UN Ambassador Arthur
Oral history transcript, Julian J. Ewell, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: JULIAN EWELL INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Ewell's residence, McLean, Virginia Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Just by way of getting into this painlessly, when were you assigned to Vietnam? E: I went over and took over
  • Vietnam
  • 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, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: BRUCE PALMER INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: The Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: General Palmer, can you give us a little insight into General [Earle] Wheeler's visit to Vietnam in February of 1968? Did he
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Department--the third member was the Finance Minister--and they urgently sought from Dean Acheson and General Marshall support for the French forces fighting in Vietnam in the action leading up to Dien Bien Phu. They urged that we have our light bombers
  • Vietnam
  • Involvement with the French in Vietnam; problems in the 1950s; General Sam Williams; counterinsurgency; the Special Forces; Bay of Pigs; observations and proposals after trips to Southeast Asia; impressions of JFK; special Counterinsurgency Group
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of the better elements of the experience in the Philippines and in Vietnam--the early experience--and see if civilian-military teams couldn't be recruited, trained, organized, and sent out to work in the villages, to help the villagers. This is basically what I
  • Vietnam
  • Phillips’ work in Laos; getting involved with the AID mission in Vietnam; reorganizing AID in relation to its rural efforts; a strategic hamlet program; organizational problems in the U.S. military approach in Vietnam; working with what
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • important as to whether we would or would not. K: That was a major issue right from the end of the three week war to the time when I switched over to being a Vietnam hand--at which time I laid down all my other briefs at the President's express request. He
  • Vietnam
  • Assistant for National Security Affairs and the process of funding a replacement; Bromley Smith; bombing halt; Komer starting work as Special Assistant for the Other War in Vietnam; Rostow’s appointment to replace McGeorge Bundy; balancing pacification
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • somewhat familiar with Vietnam, Indochina as it was called at the time, but not directly. I didn't have any trips out to Asia during that period. As I say, I had to follow the political side of the story, which was having a tremendous impact on France
  • Vietnam
  • ; Pham Xuan An; Ambassador Elbridge Durbrow; General 'Hanging Sam' Williams; the first American reporters to cover Vietnam; Homer Bigart; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; censorship; separating fact from fiction; Edward Lansdale; Vietnam: A History book
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ~g6ing to be targets just as were the South Vietnamese. Hence I recommended at once a retaliatory strike in North Vietnam. Now bear in mind this question of the use .of air power had been under discussion for a year at least, so my recommendation wasn't
  • Vietnam
  • Gulf of Tonkin; Brinks incident; attack on Pleiku; gradualism; Taylor’s assessment of turning points in the war in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for, in our phrase, sizing him up. F: You found the two of you could work together. M: Oh, yes. F: At this time the war in Vietnam had not heated up so much, and yet Australia of course has been our chief ally in the war. M: Yes. F: Did you feel any
  • Vietnam
  • Contacts with LBJ; assassination of JFK; relations with U.S. cabinet members; Vietnam War; import curbs on Australian meat; problems of Australian economic development in 1965; relationship with the United States and five U.S. Presidents
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • regarding Vietnam. You had a handful of members who were registering concern. That number grew as time went on, and it became particularly a problem when you had staunch supporters of the President's Vietnam policy expressing concern. So you have
  • and Senate leadership and problems with the whip system in the House; the increase in concern over the Vietnam War among congressmen; the work of John McCormack, Carl Albert, and Hale Boggs as house majority whips; O'Brien's conversation with Chicago Mayor
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for himself, but the right decision for our country, for what they were doing in Vietnam. He was aware of that; he was aware of the need to inform them. But I suspect that's the reason why. G: Now, do you recall President [Nguyen Van] Thieu's reaction
  • Townsend Hoopes; LBJ’s decision-making; LBJ’s relationship with Dean Rusk and Ramsey Clark; Clark Clifford; the relationship between LBJ and his staff; Spring 1968 turnaround in attitudes regarding Vietnam among LBJ’s staff; General William
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • he would sit with us in helicopters or on the aircraft, about Vietnam, and just asking us what we thought of Vietnam, whether we’d been there or not. I also remember that if you were eating and he was sitting next to you, he’d just start eating off
  • after a tour in Vietnam; Vietnam studies and literature.
Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was given a posting choice of Seoul, Korea; Vientiane, Laos; or Saigon, [South] Vietnam; those were the three [choices]. G: What year was this? P: This was 1959. I chose Saigon, got there in 1960. year the National Liberation Front was formed
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; long involvement with and extensive work on Vietnam; first duties in Saigon; captured documents; geographical regionalism in Vietnam; infiltration; armed struggle and political struggle; impressions of Diem
Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . But anyway, I presume that since you want to talk about Vietnam, you want to know how I got there. 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
  • Lathram's career history and how he became a Foreign Service officer; how Lathram was assigned to be the deputy director of the Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam; safe haven locations for the families of Foreign Service officers
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ], the Philippines, Algeria. I forget the numbers, but that's where it came out of, and that's incidentally what it was in Vietnam. Now, I would say right at the beginning that you must not interpret the war in Vietnam as a guerrilla war wholly. It was a three-tiered
  • forces in Vietnam; the effect of Sputnik on escalation of the insurgency in South Vietnam in 1959; Ngo Dinh Diem's success in consolidating Vietnam; patterns of military and political communication; insurgent hierarchy; communism among Southern insurgents
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in and trips and various things like that. G: I think you said at one time you went on the 1961 trip with LBJ, is that right? K: I did, yes. I made the trip around the world with him, when he went to Vietnam. G: How long, then, did you cover
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • after 1960 South Vietnam might even be able to reduce its defense budget. But in 1964--and I'm referring again to the interview that you gave to the U. S. News and World Report-you said that when you left Vietnam in September of 1960
  • Vietnam
  • Agrovilles; insurgency; Madame Nhu; Green Berets; Lionel McGarr; coup d’etat; Father Raymond DeJeagher; Buddhists; press; James A. Van Fleet; troop numbers; other U.S. and Vietnamese officials; country teams in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , in July, I received notification that the army wanted to transfer me to Vietnam. What happened was in the Far East they went around looking for people that had some French in their background, because according to the Geneva Accords, a limit was to go
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; Phillip’s work in Vietnam; Ed Lansdale; Phillips psywar experience; trip to the Philippines; Vietnamese pacification program; mosquitoes in the Philippines; Colonel Le Van Kim; the Viet Minh; the Binh Xuyen in Saigon; Kieu
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , as all these guys from the Kennedy offices and other places had called over to get friends excused from the draft or put into a reserve outfit right away because otherwise they might have to go into the army and go to Vietnam. So that's basically what I
  • of defense, and the work Knowlton and Califano did; the duties of the secretary of the general staff (SGS); Califano going to work in the White House; Knowlton volunteering to go to Vietnam in 1966; Knowlton's work getting Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MAXWELL D. TAYLOR INTERVIEWER: TED GITTINGER PLACE: General Taylor's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: General Taylor, can you tell me the reasons for your trip to Vietnam in 1957? T: By that time, I was chief of staff
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; 1957 trip to Vietnam; General Sam Williams; Edward Lansdale; Taylor-Rostow report; intelligence; Lionel McGarr; coordination; Diem coup; Harkins and Lodge; KATUSAs; Westmoreland; State Department; bombing campaign; Taylor’s
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Vietnam. Right across the room from me, another desk in the PAC division of J-3 did exactly the same thing for Rolling Thunder that we LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
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  • ; counterinsurgency; War College; Vietnam special forces group; mission of special forces, 1966-1967; Operation Attleboro; effectiveness of special forces during tour of duty; special forces in the 1960s and today
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Administration was as minister-counselor for public information in the American ·' Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam. But prior to that, you had been I believe deputy public affairs officer in India for several years and had spent some time with the Voice
  • Vietnam
  • 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, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was--the bombing of the North, I think, in Vietnam. Again, you have that peculiar strain of naivete in the President. M: Unwillingness to believe that reporters have the initiative to follow it up. A: Just as much sense as he does. It's not only that; there's
  • at the 1960 Democratic Convention; Philip Graham; Herman Talmadge; Alsop's writing about the Vietnam War; Bill Moyers; criticism of LBJ's approach to Vietnam; Alsop being invited to visit privately with presidents; LBJ's unpredictable nature' Robert McNamara
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, Frank G. Wisner, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • directly to Vietnam. The other portion of them in August of 1964 were told to report to Washington to learn Vietnamese, to think and read and study Vietnam, to focus on the problem of the war for approximately one year's training, which included a stint
  • Wisner's career in the Foreign Service in the early 1960s; Wisner's duties in Vietnam upon his arrival in 1965; Agency for International Development [AID] work in Dinh Tuong province; organization of pacification efforts; Wisner's responsibilities
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • who broke the precedent. Then, when General Taylor was asked to become our ambassador to South Vietnam, the President and Secretary McNamara had selected me to replace General Taylor. So maybe I broke the precedent. r~: ~~as I'm just not sure
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the nominee at the convention? O: Yes. There were contacts made with McCarthy and we, as indicated in the negotiations on the Vietnam plank and on the Unit Rule, sought opportunities to create an atmosphere that might lead to unity. At the same time
  • ; a meeting hosted by Duane Andreas to find loans to continue media for Humphrey; poll results leading up to the election; whether time or money would have allowed Humphrey to win the election; Humphrey's efforts to discuss a Vietnam plank with LBJ and hope
Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : November 6, 1985 INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES J. TIMMES INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Timmes' office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 T: . . . to the 101st Airborne Division, March 1959 to May 1961. I was assigned to Vietnam in May 1961
  • Timmes' work as advisor in Korea 1956-1958 and Vietnam in the early 1960s; problems facing American advisors in Vietnam, such as a lack of familiarity with the Vietnamese language, culture, and military training; the threat of insurgency in South
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a legacy that Ambassador [Elbridge] Durbrow had left for you to inherit? N: Yes. I think the legacy was one of some tension and misunderstanding between the American mission and the government of South Vietnam under President [Ngo Dinh] Diem. There had
  • Vietnam
  • Situation on arrival in Vietnam as Ambassador; Chief of MAAG; General McGarr; Taylor-Rostow mission; Ed Lansdale; task force chaired by Roswell Gilpatric; impressions after traveling in the provinces; Viet Cong tenacity; Colonel John Paul Vann
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT M. MONTAGUE INTERVIEWER: Ted PLACE: Gittinger General Montague's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: When were you assigned to Vietnam? M: Let's see. That should be kind of easy, I think. I started out my
  • and Montague; Special Assistant Robert Komer's staff; the goals of pacification; Komer's personality; Montague's role on Komer's staff projects to stabilize the Vietnam economy; the PROVN (The Program for the Pacification and Long Term Development of South
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE INTERVIEWER: Ted PLACE: JACOBSON Gittinger Colonel Jacobson's residence, Reston, Virginia Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: All right, sir. Why don't we begin with 1954? How did you get selected for that duty in Vietnam? J: Well
  • Vietnam
  • an overview of Jacobson's military career 1954-1975; Jacobson's opinion of Ed Lansdale, General John W. "Iron Mike" O'Daniel and General Samuel T. Williams; Williams' abilities as a diplomat in Vietnam; comparing Generals O'Daniel, Williams, Lionel
Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in a moment that there were a couple of things that occurred over there that were related to the Vietnam War. But just to get the track going, I returned and I was asked for in the Office of National Estimates. That in many respects was an even more rewarding
  • crisis on Soviet politics; Hagerty’s work in the Office of National Estimates; George Carver and Bill Hyland’s involvement in Vietnam task force; Chinese obstruction of Soviet military support to North Vietnam; the Soviet and Chinese positions toward
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of Reuters, Peter Arnett at AP, Ray Herndon of UPI, a number of others coming up. These were younger residents, staff correspondents, but resident correspondents. There were other correspondents who covered Vietnam, but they were based essentially in Hong
  • Vietnam
  • State of press relations in Saigon in 1964; coordination between various elements of the mission; generation gap and press relations; psychological operations; integration of the press relations efforts; JUSPAO; understanding of the Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • found myself in very distinguished company, not only with Bob Komer, but with Bill Leonhart, who was a senior foreign service officer, his deputy; and Dick Holbrooke, who was a foreign service officer who had spent four years in Vietnam; Bob Montague
  • Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS); Komer as director of CORDS; Rosenblatt's trips to Vietnam to evaluate the refugee situation; Rosenblatt's accommodations in Saigon; the Tet offensive; how the United States' take-charge military
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : He never discussed with you, by any chance, his trip to Vietnam? � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org B: No, ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] no, he didn't discuss that . More
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  • Detailed account of U.S. participation in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)
  • : increasing our military involvement in Vietnam; the Bay of Pigs, which was a disaster; the beefing up of the military, which I didn't think was necessary. Right after Ike told the country in his farewell address about the dangers of the mounting power
  • for the Vietnam War effort; why McGovern spoke out against the war in Vietnam as early as 1963; McGovern's expectation that LBJ would get U.S. troops out of Vietnam after the 1964 presidential election; Wayne Morse, Ernest Henry Gruening, and other senators who
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • actually occurred, I was actually in the National Training Center at Vung Tau for the training of RD [Revolutionary Development] cadre, and actually that was probably the safest place you could be in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive, as it turned out
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . The system didn't work equally well on all problems. But on the major one, Vietnam, it worked very well. M: Was that because all the parties basically agreed to start with, that it worked there, and maybe they didn't agree on other of the areas of concern
  • White House-State Department relationship on foreign policy; Vietnam; bombing; bureaucratic machinery; opposition to the war; leaks.