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with him on certain important decision occasions, such as a meeting he held of the service Secretaries and service Chiefs prior to the decision to send United States units to Vietnam; a similar meeting in January of 1967 with respect to the decision
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Biographical information; relationship with LBJ; Vietnam; basic training programs; army aviation; M-16; Tet; bombing; preparedness level; security gap; profiteering; Selective Service; minorities; reserves; social programs; civil disturbances

for Vietnam casualties or anybody else during a hiatus while the new area was being gotten ready. Now, that new area is still not ready, but when it is ready, it will look right. It won't look vulgar and scarred the way the 1959 expansion area looks. P
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Hershey; reorganization/consolidation of Reserves and National Guard; training of reserve units for Vietnam; lawsuits by reservists; role of reserves; defense budgeting; ROTC; training skills; older equipment in Vietnam; desertions; Vietnam; Armed Forces

Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: It was very good, yes, as far as I know. F: By the time '68 comes around, of course, Mr. Johnson has Vietnam on his Everything went fine. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that episode later? By that time, you were already, through you activities in foreign affairs, one of the well-known critics of the policy in Vietnam. Regarding your foreign affairs service and work on that committee, was there some specific episode in regard
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LBJ's commitment to civil rights; 1967 Detroit riots; opposition to Vietnam bombing policy; reorganization of the District of Columbia

Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

strain in that relationship didn't come until considerably later. I remember there were a number of issues relating to the war in Vietnam that Senator Russell felt strongly about. One I think is maybe a minor example, but I remember it's a project
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of Senate opposition to Vietnam policy from 1968-1973; 1968 riots; damage caused by the appointment of Alexander Lawrence as federal judge; Abe Fortas nomination to be Chief Justice; Southern strategy in approving 1968 open housing bill; oral history project

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, by what was most calculated to keep Robert Kennedy from the presidency. I think most of the major decisions in Vietnam were made with that in mind. But the question of the campaign was really rather remote most of the time, because there was so much

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Vietnam in 1966, 1967, 1968. But he was extremely helpful and most knowledgeable and had a great deal of empathy, coming from where he did and his background, with the mayors of some of the major cities. I think essentially the mayors were looked upon

Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that is the kind of activity that our nation must conduct in the national interest. So, it's the easiest explanation to say Vietnam, but the answer that I would have to give would be that, number one, we went up on the Hill at the worst time possible. First
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Affairs Council; Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Activities; report “Beacon of Hope”; LBJ’s kindness; Budget cuts; international and national crises; Vietnam; International Education Act; appointment to U.S. Customs Court

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

seldon far as did h e ) ::;:3.t. , I else, T: ", effect and I, like almost everybody the view that it was just going to relate to Vietn am--and ,c, only to Vietnam. held a that speech to,} S['"~'7 ",(~ ""-'''. I rerr,(?nber that on Sat 'r-day
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help bring an end to the war in Vietnam; LBJ’s interest in reactions; Governor Rockefeller; MLK assassination and the subsequent Washington riots; the process by which a President can get the help of federal troops; D.C. Mayor Water Washington; LBJ’s

Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. He apparently had unlimited time to try to solve these problems. B: Would he also talk to you about things beyond the problems of the cities, Vietnam and his other activities? A: Well, [in] one of our first visits to the White House after he came

Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

[trip]. P: --to get our allies to come in with more support for Vietnam. The President was tied up all day and into the early evening. And Marvin Watson and I had lunch together, with John. F: You had known Marvin previously? P: Yes. So

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the policy with respect to the Vietnam War--calls it typically an amoral conflict and says that no one should participate in it--that's one thing. If this same man stands up, makes the same statements, asks those present to bring their draft cards up to him

this was just an impression that I'm speaking of. And a part of this im- pression arises because he had a lot of other things like Vietnam, to take the great example, that obviously were eating on him much more so than they had been in '64 or '65. So his

; description and evaluation of the Corps of Engineers and its operations; future of navigable waterways projects; the RFK funeral; the military as an instrument for social programs; Project 100,000; proportion of black soldiers in Vietnam; functions

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