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- in society and that busi
nes!>prospered. Business had confidence in him. by and
large. and labor had confidence in him.
Nowadays. a lot of people who want to forget every
thing except Vietnam. or everything except civil rights. or
whatever their favorite
- Leaders' Criticism
of the Vietnam War"; George Cas
tile, "LBJ, The O.E.O. and the Na
tive Americans"; John Duffield,
'"The U.S. and the Evolution of
NATO's Conventional Force Pos
ture"; John Dumbrell, "Congress,
The Vietnam War and the Anti-War
Movement
- led the
troops in Vietnam, keynoted both
the exhibition and the symposium
with an illustrated lecture setting
forth the history of the Korean War.
2
Images From a Forgotten War
The exhibition tells the story of the
war with documents, photographs
- and Eleanor Clift
blamed "Vietnam and Watergate" for
some of the change. "Reporters were
lied to enough times," Eleanor Clift
said, "that they have absolutely zero
trust in what they are hearing." But
also, she said, "the society has
changed ... The interests
- most everyone thought
impossible."
The "triumph" of the book's title
refers. of course, to Johnson's domes
tic achievements. The "tragedy''
relates to LBJ and Vietnam: "No mat
ter how Lyndon Johnson mustered his
persuasive powers, he could not com
- of the
remote White House, spending
roughly a quarter of his presi
dency plotting his Great Society
legislation and America's i.nvolve
ment in the Vietnam War from an
office there filled with phones
and decorated with paintings of
his favorite dogs.
The office
- to help defray travel and living
expenses for researchers using the
Library's resources.
Those receiving grants-in-aid and
the titles of their proposed subjects
are: David L. Anderson, "Minority
Military Service in the Vietnam War";
John A. Andrew, III
- and
informative.
From left to right: Robert Di ine, Elspeth Rostow, George Christian
3
Perhaps inevitably, much of the
discussion centered around Vietnam.
Dallek 's position is that in the con
text of the times, President Johnson
could not have avoided
- on the crucial legislation going to Congress.
Twenty years ago this weekend the President took his key
national security advisers to Camp David. and when they
returned he said that he was going to give the men, the
commanders in Vietnam what they needed
- of the
arine
orps from 178,000 active-duty personnel to
nearly 300,000 at the height of th Vietnam
War. A 1930 graduate of the Naval Acad my,
he gained a reputation as a brilliant staff officer
and planner. He became Chief of Staff of the
Marine Corps in 1960
- and the voices of people who
knew and worked with him.
(top) Museum staff m mbcrs
add the finishing t uches to a
display.
(right) The new exhibit on
Vietnam shows the visitor the
documents the president saw when
he made his critical decisions.
It is possible
- to combine research satisfac
tory to s holars with a felicity of style which will result in pop
ularity with the general public. One such prize may well be
awarde for a biography or the thirty-sixth president. The
Vietnam war, so complicated Lothose who
- Herring (University of Ken
There was general agreement with this. Said Strauss: "It's
tucky), th Vietnam War; Walter LaFeber (Cornell Univer
ssential that we move toward a national consensus on some sity), Latin American Policy; Steven Lawson (University
- leadership in the handling of the Vietnam War.
It may have resulted from kgislation or executive regulation
going far too far, to excess in the penetration of our daily
lives
Whatever the cause, the political pendulum began to swing
back from the heyday
- development: the
Great Society and the Vietnam War.
The Great Society must be
viewed as part of the larger reform
impulse which began just after the
tum of the century with the pro
gr ssive movement under the leader
ship of Presidents Theodore Roose
velt
- not do it
all.'' Bill Moyers agreed: •'We really
did try to do too much ... We erred also
in not anticipating what the war [in
Vietnam] would do to the energies of
the President and the passions of the
people and to the conflict in the very
soul
- ,
Australia, an Vietnam.
Conferences Slated for Spring
A confer nee jointly sponsored by the Library, the LBJ
School and the Brookings Institution, to be held February
12-13 in the Library, will examine the history of energy policy
in the United States
- . A team composed of
representatives
from the CIA,
Defense Intelligence Agency, Navy,
Air Force and LBJ Library scanned
some 92,000 pages from the
Vietnam Country File and sent 11
compact discs containing computer
ized images of those pages to
Washington
- ;
LBJ's visits to Vietnam, and the
Diary for March 31, l 968, the day
when
President
Johnson
announced he would not seek
another tem1. One of the Library's
h.igh st priorities and most talked
about current projects is the pro
ce. sing and release
- : will
dhcovcr how seminal the 1960s re lly were··
And, of course, Vietnam. Already the literature on that amful
and itter ·ar is voluminous. hate\'er historians write about it in
the future, the story cannot 1.J
- . left over from the
Vietnam War and the societal strife of
the sixties. He had no mandate, having
garnered only 43 per cent of the popu
lar vote. Meanwhile. the rest of the
Author Blumenthal defends the Clinton record
Wars, his provocative memoir
- their
best-selling works. Robe1t McNamara
presented his own mea culpa on
Vietnam. Ban-y Goldwater cl lineated
"A Con ervativ 's Philo ·ophy."
Sid Davi' and George Chri tian
laughingly recalled how LBJ con
tributed to his credibility gap wh n he
got carried
- . It was the War to End
all Wars. It set the stage for World War
II and ultimately, the wars in Korea and
Vietnam. November 11 marks the 60th
annwersary
,f the armistice that
stopped World War I. [It] also marks the
opening of a major exhib 't on World
War I
-
affairs, it ignored the problems of the
Vietnam War. In his speech Johnson
called upon the best instincts of his
audience. He urged the people not to
be content with the nation as it was
but to look ahead, particularly at
three areas where great problems
r
- . Bundy on the shapin of
American policy in Vietnam from 1961 through 1965. Bundy
serv d as D puty Assistant ecretary and Assistant Secretary
of Defense and as Assistant Secretary f tate in the 1960s.
• The photographic collection of Jim Cox, prize- inning
- with a
telephone as you probably know. He
began to talk to me about the Vietnam
war ... He just spent an hour and a ha!f
preaching to the converted because
while 1disagreed in some ways [about
how] the war was being conducted, I
did feel that basically it had
- on Vietnam policy. One
of the students, Rachel Martin of
Sealy, Texas, is doing an honors the
sis on how southerners used the
Declaration of Independence to rede
fine the American character during
the time preceding the Civil War.
Martin expects to graduate
- Policy.'
Lan Thuc Le, "The Impact of the Vietnam Problem
on the Role and the Work of the U.S. Congress."
George C. Mackenzie, "The Appointment Process:
The Selection and Confirmation of ederal Political
Executives."
David C. Mowery, "A History
-
was happening." The decade saw the maturation of
the nuclear age, Arab reaction to the creation of
Israel, the Marxist revolution in Cuba and even the
seeds of Vietnam, Hardeman pointed out. The civil
rights "revolution" was the most politically signifi
cant
- that' one of our greatest
strengths, but maybe it's one of our weaknesses, too. If a
young man says "You're sending me to Vietnam because of
The hurl look lhat jusl gets born there when you're poor and
discriminated against.
the SEATO treaty, but I wasn't
-
Author St ve Harrigan recalled
that he firsl visited to the Library as a
student al The University of Texas.
He came to its opening in 1971, not
to eel brate, but to prote t the
Vietnam War. In tho e days. he said,
it a· ea y to ·ce the world in terms
-
by their fir t atomic bomb test." He
drew other examples from Vietnam,
Berlin, and the Middle East. "Success
can derive from failure," Bobbit mused.
"It's called learning."
But he warned that success can lead to
failure, as well. Too often we rely on st:rate
- >eing-debated. This business ol the fail accompli which we
saw in Vietnam, all the way through, step by :;tcp, ~as
bad."
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