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  • : Did you ever talk to Johnson on Vietnam? P: Oh, yes. Yes. I talked to him on Vietnam the last time I was in the White House during his administration. F: Did you carryon a good dialogue \
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  • LBJ’s participation in the elections of 1952 and 1956; LBJ turning over election activities to Stewart Udall; Partens work as a consultant to Udall; LBJ’s skills as an administrator; Vietnam; LBJ’s decision ont to run for re-election; Great Society
  • this for a year and I would then go to Harvard. This was all kind of a package. It was on the basis that I would not receive a presidential appointment and the hell with it. M: Later on at least, if not by then, ISA became sort of a center of dissent on Vietnam
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  • 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
  • to the ESEA 25 The White House exerted power on the Democratic members of Congress 27 "Cre di bi Ii ty gap" 28 White House briefing 29 The Great Society; Vietnam War, Tonkin Resolution 32 Quie interpretation of Johnson as President LBJ Presidential
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  • ; 89th Congress; Civil Rights Bill; 1964 convention; OEO; legislation; Quie amendments; Great Society; Vietnam War; LBJ as President
  • 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
  • that the President would do, they adjusted it back into this credibility gap. You hear to this hour people talking. When Henry Cabot Lodge was thought about in the newspapers as a replacement to go back out to Vietnam, they asked the President at a press conference
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh SHAPIRO -- I -- 19 S: Well, I think that there was a feeling that the Vietnam issue was hurting. I don't recall, when we had our meeting in Cincinnati at the Governors I Conference, whether
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  • government positions; reaction to Kerner Commission report; MLK; Vietnam War criticized by black people; innate compassionate nature of LBJ
  • required. For instance, wnen Kennedy sent him out to Vietnam and he came back with that very belligerent recommendation. Now that was an example of it. Kennedy didn't have to send him to Vietnam, but that was becoming a problem, and it would
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  • Center in San Antonio by JFK and subsequent trip to Dallas; LBJ’s "Great Society;" Vietnam demonstrations; Fisher’s opinions on LBJ’s effectiveness as President: ambitious and hardworking.
  • were out there with him, and I guess he was talking about some of the programs that he initiated . B: I disagreed with him very much on what to do about Vietnam . He had five or six friends there and all of them told him he ought to honor
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  • Biographical information; Jesse Jones; Charles Marshall; Alvin Wirtz; LCAR; LBJ's personality; war years; LBJ and business; vice presidency; presidency; Vietnam; the Great Society; education; retirement; Lady Bird Johnson
  • in Vietnam were the first that I had really heard in serious academic circles. I think I made a statement that night to the President, something about the distinction between the noisy and the numerous academics. But I'm afraid as the years went
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  • ; policy-making; meeting in White House mess hall; origin of rent supplement idea; paper on accomplishments of preceding year in urban affairs; Model Cities task force; appointment; conflict between cost and tax requirements of Great Society and Vietnam War
  • insignificant, almost inconsequential in the budget, probably deserves to be told. M: In your period as Budget Director, did you feel increasing pressure from the military because of Vietnam. G: No. Vietnam, from a budgetary point of view, didn't really
  • Corps, cut CAP"--which was more controversial __ lIincrease Head Start"--which is very popular--"but take it out of the hide of other OEO programs. dollars to go around." There will be only so many The Vietnam War was escalating. We knew there were
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