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

. There's no question about that. McHugh, who was a brigadier general in the air force and was Kennedy's air force aide, went flitting up and down the aisle trying to get the pilot to get the plane off the ground, because his President was aboard and he
Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
had to LBJ; 1964 campaign; LBJ’s inability to announce travel plans in advance; LBJ choosing a running mate; LBJ lying to the press; comparison of LBJ’s press secretaries; the Walter Jenkins incident; off-the-record interviews; naming Nicholas

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

-- II -- 2 I stayed there off and on for about two years. Then I left the government in 1959, went to work for my father in Airways Engineering. Then in 1962 I got a call from the director of AID, Far East, a guy named [Seymour] Janow, asking me
Phillips’ work in Laos; getting involved with the AID mission in Vietnam; reorganizing AID in relation to its rural efforts; a strategic hamlet program; organizational problems in the U.S. military approach in Vietnam; working with what

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

left; John had been doing some dealing with the press. Lodge took over press relations into his own office. Joe Lubin. He got himself a young aide named He became his own press officer and in theory at least, Mecklin no longer, up to the time he

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of military aid to both sides th~had to go for compromise. Ayub could see that if the war continued much longer that he was up the creek. He would run out of military resources. to go to Tashkent. That was why he had LBJ Presidential Library http
The Congo crisis of June 1964; how the Russians got credit for settling the India-Pakistan crisis of 1964 and U.S. involvement in the crisis; how LBJ obtained and evaluated information; U.S. military aid to Pakistan; the Three Week War

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and with Lodge, with AID Director Bell, Bundy, Rostow, all present. What was the gist of that? K: I don't recall what the gist of that particular meeting was. Let me say--you know, you asked me whether I had many meetings with the President as a prospective

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was the ADC [aide de camp?] of the Eighth Division, knew me and worked with me on a couple of exercises, and he was brought back from Europe to be the special assistant to the secretary and the chief, I think, for counterinsurgency. The reason was that, you

and Admiral Dick Byrd, who had been his aide when he was Vice President. Also, that was immediately prior to the Israeli-U.A.R. confrontation, and, as a matter of fact, Prime Minister Wilson was in the White House at the time, LBJ Presidential Library http

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 22 Lodge recommended, that various sanctions be imposed upon Diem-holding back aid, various things to remind him he'd better see the Ambassador and listen to his advice--something that Diem was not doing at the time

that after Korea we had the cry, "Never another Korea," and that was in '53. In 1954 President Eisenhower signed a letter to Presi- dent Diem offering him aid in South Vietnam. In other words, even while the cry was still in the air, "no more Koreas," we

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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