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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

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

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and the President's special representative to the Vietnam War conference, Deputy Secretary of National Defense. It included a man who was formerly, I believe, head of the Federal Aeronautics Administration, a fellow named Jeeb (Najeeb) Halaby. It included -- well
Vietnam
; briefings for Senate Foreign Relations Committee; efforts as ambassador; relations with Ayub Khan; role as Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam; team of Bunker and Locke; manpower mobilization; pacification program; political atmosphere at home; changes

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

Vietnam
Katzenbach as attorney general; presidents’ interaction with the State Department; May 1966 trip to Chicago; LBJ’s opinions of the U.S. role in Vietnam; LBJ’s assessment of his own staff; Tonkin Gulf resolution; Lindley Rule and press access to LBJ

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, despite the acrimonious and very public differences that came to light on Vietnam and on the foreign policy questions. But they functioned pretty well together. F: It was, I suppose, Senator Johnson as majority leader who pl aced Mr. Fulbright
Vietnam
Bird in 1964 campaign; Pacem in Terris convocation in NY; Dominican crisis; Stevenson-Johnson relationship; second Pacem in Terris convocation in Geneva; role of Center for Study of Democratic Institutions in Vietnam conflict; mission to North Vietnam

of error to be made? They had the experience of Latin American difficulties in the Kennedy Administration to go by, certainly. Was it just inattention? M: I think it was just absent-mindedness, inattention. know, we were involved in Vietnam by then. You

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Vietnam
Long; Walter Lippman; Vietnam debate; role as Administration's spokesman; White House briefings; differences between JFK and LBJ; Dominican situation; relationship between LBJ and Fulbright

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Vietnam
; LBJ as President; Vietnam War; LBJ and credibility; Nixon Administration; civil rights leaders and the Vietnam War; LBJ and education; various Presidents’ support of civil rights; LBJ’s early position on civil rights; LBJ’s 1965 State of the Union

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

already talking about post-Vietnam back in those days. And things like that. But generally we stayed clear of getting involved in specific legislation. F: As long as you've brought the name up, what did you think of Wright Patman's grasp of economics

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in disagreement with the Kennedy Administration's sale of wheat to the Soviet Union. Did he ever talk about that? N: No. I don't [recall it]. G: HO\'J about on Vietnam at the time he was vice president? He went to Vietnam once. N: Yes, he did. the staff
Vietnam
and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter

Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

now to about two billion, to my recollection, and I think it will be reduced further this year. B: In connection with Vietnam, the major foreign policy problem of the Johnson Administration, do you feel that Mr. Johnson adequately consulted Congress

Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

who are off limits for one reason or another? For instance, on something involving Vietnam, would you go talk to Senator [J. William] Fulbright? On the [Abe] Fortas nomination, would you talk !o Senator [Strom] Thurmond? M: Oh, yes. I had

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] him, they felt confident with him. anybody's judgment. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh There was no Vietnam to cloud Johnson was showing himself

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

downfall. That is to say, when things got rough in the country over the Vietnam War there were no friends to stand by him in his hour of need. If there had been a strong and united party, which he could have built, LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as Vietnam became more of a problem. But was it in a sense unified, or did you have a wide range? A: I would say a wide range. with him. All the way through, I must say I was A lot of the Hollywood people like Shirley Maclaine and Sandy Vanocur

Vietnam
; urban problems; relationship with LBJ; 1963-1965 legislation; appointment as Federal judge; effect of Vietnam on domestic policies; participation in 1964 campaign; changes in administrative procedure at HEW; difficulties encountered as first member

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and it turned out that our conventional forces were then, seemingly at least, inadequate to handle the kind of brushfire wars that were then anticipated to occur. Vietnam indicates that they may not be adequate to this day--I don't know. F: Was there any real

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