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- later said that I was a traitor to my country, by the way. Bob Sherrod was going out to Vietnam, I think it was about 1966 or so, and as a lot of people did he went and got briefed in the White House. Lyndon always wanted to know who was going out
- Vietnam
- Early contact with LBJ during 1960 campaign; going to Vietnam for the first time; learning about Vietnam and gaining the confidence of the people there; deciphering the motivation of the officers that spoke to him; Homer Bigart; John Vann; John
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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- that's when [Dean] Acheson, [McGeorge] Bundy and that crowd were in telling him give up the Vietnam War. But we didn't know it. We got in and he was writing something at his desk. absolutely exhausted, tired and exhausted. sat down. He looked He came
- a particular appointment or question? What would he ask you, now? H: Well, some of the questions were about procedures and Vietnam, of course, and many of them were--you see, Lyndon Johnson is a great man, but he's a very sensitive man and hi s feel i ngs
- Vietnam
- 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
- : Ba : I think it was, The reference you made awhile back about--you mentioned in connection with France's policies "in our case"--would that have been a reference to our Vietnam involvement? B : No, because at that time Vietnam was scarcely
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- : Fascinating. Now I I think we were going to talk about when you were USIA director and Vietnam. M: The story that I told Merle Miller that I wanted to report to you was this. You may recall that in the midst of the Vietnam controversy, Senator George
- Vietnam
- Biographical information; public educational broadcasting legislation; 1960 campaign; liaison with Eastern states; vice presidential nomination; media campaign; LBJ and JFK in New York; LBJ and television; Cuban Missile Crisis; USIA; Vietnam
- Vietnam
- [For interview 2 and 3] 1960 election and campaign; JFK administration; LBJ administration’s domestic and foreign policies and programs; Vietnam; postal service; powerful figures in Congress; reasons for LBJ’s decline in popularity.
- Vietnam
- ; Presidential Scholars Commission; Presidential Commission on Violence; Vietnam
- to go over and have a casual luncheon with him. I was over there after the Vietnam thing. with General [Bruce] Clark. I went over to Vietnam And Ted Connell, who sort of acted as a self-appointed sergeant major to Johnson all the time, in any event
- in Vietnam; the 1968 convention in Chicago.
- of personalities and of budget problems seem to interfere. In other words, the average President, no matter who he is, loses strength as the term goes along. Of course, the Vietnam War caused a focal point for many of these persons who were disappointed
- Vietnam
- [For interview 2 and 3] 1960 election and campaign; JFK administration; LBJ administration’s domestic and foreign policies and programs; Vietnam; postal service; powerful figures in Congress; reasons for LBJ’s decline in popularity.
- that. And the newspaperman asked Mr. Dulles that if the Chinese interference with the Dien Bien Phu operation--I mean, the French-Vietnam operations at that time, and it was centered about Dien Bien Phu--if that constituted LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- heard of before we got into it. heard of Vietnam. Nobody had ever They knew it was part of Indochina at one time, but nobody had ever heard anything about it. his trouble was the war. I think part of Anyway you'd have gone, anything you'd have done
- wanted to appoint John Hays, the head of our television station, as Ambassador to switzerland, and the other one--As a part of that, I think he asked me to bring Russ Wiggins with him and he thanked Russ for his editorial support on Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- with Johnson was on the war . of the Vietnam War. I had been a strong advocate I followed the Johnson policy . As a matter of fact, I can remember going to the White House to a briefing one day when President Johnson and Rusk spoke . And I moved that we
- Vietnam
- 1960 election; the Kennedys; relationship with LBJ; Massachusetts politics; Vietnam War; comparison of JFK and LBJ; Education bill; LBJ's persuasive ability
- they may have been for his not running, were only injustices against this great man. This great American who was trying so hard to do everything for everyone. And yet in a way because of the times and the Vietnam situation he was unable to continue. I
- ~ because of the Vietnam situation. I think that Johnson did just exactly the right thing to help Humphrey. He did everything Humphrey asked him to do. no more, nor any less. He did He wanted to help Hubert Humphrey be elected president of the United
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- Vietnam
- ; contact with LBJ and White House staff; Vietnam; Johnson Administration legislative briefings; the Pueblo incident; reflections on LBJ in various situations; comparison and evaluation of the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- Vietnam
- confronting him as Johnson had--domestic and the war in Vietnam, etc .--and I think that, first of all, he figured that he had made his contribution and that maybe it would be better for the Democratic Party to nominate somebody else . M: For a man who had
- view]; these are the things that are awfully hard to know. Of course the President was so completely absorbed in Vietnam and some of these other issues that in my own philosophy are really far greater, involving lives of people. You can't feel like