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- in particular . One other point about this . Where did the idea of the National Transportation Safety Board come in? B : The NTSB was a development in the course of the legislative process ; I'm not sure who came up with that particular name, but it became
- of the Department of Transportation; Urban Mass Transit; Maritime Administration; National Transportation Safety Board; appointment as Secretary and confirmation; reflections on LBJ; domestic legislative achievements; international relations; effects of Vietnam War
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- view of that? N: That is not my view. My view is that it is important that our military establishment be responsive to the will of the president and the national security council. In fact I can think of nothing more important than that the military
- regular schedule on it. I'm sort of attempting to explore how the decision-making process was with Mr. Johnson, of course relating this to the military decisions. And I'm thinking in terms of the National Security Council as an instrument in advising
- Meeting LBJ; McConnell’s appointment as vice chief, and then chief, of staff of Air Force; Joint Chiefs of Staff budget conferences with LBJ; making recommendations to the President through JCS; National Security Council and Tuesday Luncheons; U.S
- it, it was a persistent theme in national security circles ' thinking about Cuba that we ought to be able to overthrow Castro, or get rid of Castro as people tended loosely to say, in other ways than by invading his island, as we sort of did in the Bay of Pigs, or trying
- committee composed of the province chief, the AID representative, and the military advisory group representative. They would be given a budget, including some contingency funds, for a variety of activities, which included everything ranging from hamlet
- influenced Johnson in his view of general national economics? A: 11m sure that must have had an important role, particularly growing up where he did. F: Well, it would have hit just about the time he came onto the job market. A: Oh yes, and obvi ously he
- positions were locked. Eventually the senior members of the executive branch determined that this split viewpoint could not continue. Not only did it impair national level decision-making, but more important, there were tremendous political implications
- , from time to time, when he was out on Armed Services Committee business, obviously it was in the interest of the government and the interest of the United States Air Force to carry the Senator wherever he needed to go. I had heard of the Senator
- regarding the Far East at that time, Korea and Japan. I got to know him then and saw him almost daily. certainly was a very impressive and personable man. He I think his relationship with the top people at the United Nations when he
- as a White House aide on the national security side of McGeorge Bundy's shop and then later with Mr. Harriman throughout the period 1966-67; then you came to the Institute for Defense analyses during 1967 where you still are. C: Right. M: Did you know Mr
- Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964
- knew him, and I imagine that Diem very likely mentioned his name occasionally to me. I remember one time a year or so later when some Americans were going to come out, a committee was going to come out to Vietnam and the Vietnamese were in conference
Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- not established contacts with the outside world or been interested in that aspect of America's national interest as much as maybe Mr. Kennedy had. In any case, certainly in a country like Japan and most others he did not have a great image the way Mr. Kennedy
- experience, I left the Saturday Evening Post returned to the Knight chain, this time as national correspondent based in Washington for all of the papers of the Knight was then and group, which about five or six newspapers . In the summer of 1965, I
- participate on the committee ." happened . It didn't work out . Well, I don't know what So the Venezuelans abstained and opposed . Then later, one of my predecessors, Ted Moskoso, arrived rather suddenly . He had been asked by the White House--I think
- committee was a peculiar Kennedy construction; it was not the National Security Council. It was in effect an ad hoc kind of subcommittee of the council. M: Actually created for that crisis, wasn't it? A: On the first day that he heard the Missiles were
- Germany have a national nuclear weapon. But I believe also the Navy was rather interested in the MLF because it would involve an expansion of the Navy and would provide a new type of naval nuclear weapons system in addition to the Polaris, because
- ; feeling of NATO countries; European Allies and Vietnam War; McNamara’s speech regarding the ABM system; Czechoslovakia crisis; German problem; LBJ’s relationship with Kissinger; LBJ as a personal diplomat; Most-Favored Nation treatment; East-West Trade
- in 1962? H: Oh, my goodness, that starts back in 1922 when I joined the Boston National Guard just to learn how to ride a horse because I figured only soldiers and millionaires could ride horses on the weekends. And I ended up forty-two years later
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- was involved in. He was then on the House Naval Affairs Committee, studying at the knee of Uncle Carl Vinson, the chairman. At that point I believe he had been out in the Pacific and come back. But [thi s was] my fi rst experi ence of hi s persuas i ve abil
- make that very, very clear, and the report of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to which I gather Draper had access, makes it very clear-and so did the dispatches of TadSzulc., who knew what he was doing. changed around the time that Mac Bundy
- elections of Diem, which were in April of 1961, in which he got about 90 per cent of the votes. G: That's fairly usual in that part of the world, isn't it? N: Well, yes. Yes. I think-- But the charge which was leveled--these were United Nations
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- that it wasn't passed on, at least in It's conceivable that he did phone the President; if' he did, the President later expressed complete mystery about it. M: It didn't come in writing to the National Security Council. C: It did not come in writing, because
- Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964
- if they really felt that the war was [wrong] and they wanted to resist the war by writing articles and whatever, that he would defend them when they came back to the United states. He was there at a time when they had a committee--they called it a war crimes
- of the expediency of it, the convenience and the access to it, and the cost. But during my two tours there, it wasn't much of a problem at all, but then later when the national resolve began to falter and Vietnam became an unpopular war and the guys thought they had
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- - national Affairs at Princeton on the expropriation of American property in Cuba in 1959. After the election and the inaugural in 1961, Bill and Sarge were very helpful getting me interviews with certain people I needed in the State Department for my
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- leaders. Now, President Johnson at that time decided to establish this review group, a committee, or whatever you want to call it, wh i ch \·./Qul d be headed by r~r. Cl a rk Cl ifford, who was then the secretary-designate of Defense, and which would
- as he was before the congressional committees during his tenure, I think that the enemies of the intelligence community would have managed to wreck it even further than it was wrecked at that time. Of course, Colby was roundly criticized by many people
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964