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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, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • such a splash on the Vietnam War? I heard some criticism that Hoopes wasn't at the center of the decision-making. Was there a tendency to be more authoritative in your statements when you weren't so close, as against the people who were closer and saw
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Kosygin or it could be a new policy strategy in Vietnam or anything like this that was not of a public nature, if something like that came up and he had committed an event somewhere else, he would be forced to cancel the event. And it was his feeling
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • to a wide spectrum of people, with a wide range of views. He'll talk to Harry McPherson and Dick Goodwin and to Marvin Watson and Walt Rostow, maybe all on Vietnam; and you've got two completely opposing views and political philosophies. No doubt when he