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Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • area. S: It was working well in certain areas. Toward the end they made some gestures that could only be described as futile. But by that time you had the Tuesday lunch for Vietnam and some other major issues. The President and his top advisers could
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Asia. The lOSs were carrying the bulk of the strikes against North Vietnam, and they were flying out of Karat and Takhli. Now those pilots that were flying the Thuds, as we called the aircraft, were the same guys that were flying the Thuds in Europe
  • Vietnam
  • Flynn's experience flying for the Air Force after WWII; U.S. unprepared ness when Korean conflict began; code of conduct of American POWs in Vietnam; training of U.S. fighter pilots in Europe delivering nuclear and missile weapons; Cuban Missile
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • ; LBJ as President; Vietnam War; LBJ and credibility; Nixon Administration; civil rights leaders and the Vietnam War; LBJ and education; various Presidents’ support of civil rights; LBJ’s early position on civil rights; LBJ’s 1965 State of the Union
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • strongly. I think and I gathered--I say this from the things that you heard and the actions and comments--that anything he did, or anybody did, that would help conclude the killing in Vietnam, end the thing in Vietnam, they were just almost under a duty
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , when he has Vietnam and all these big things on his mind--anybody could have done that for him, you see. I knew the people around him, from Valenti and all the rest of them. We played cards together. But he did it, and he remembered. But the climax
  • Vietnam
  • ; evaluation of LBJ’s chances for reelection in 1968; Negroes on Vietnam War and the Army; Kerner Report; relationship between Howard and Resurrection City in 1968; Nabrit’s hope that history will be fair to LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • the highest standard as far as education was concerned, academic excellence, those were the states that were paying in blood when it came to wartime, the Vietnam War. And those states that spent the least on education and had the poorest educational
  • Vietnam
  • and Carl Perkins; state departments of education; John Gardner; Job Corps; discrimination on the basis of sex in various areas; Vietnam; the disadvantaged students; views on busing and civil rights; black colleges; mixed feelings about LBJ; relationship
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that U Thant had indicated .. Well, you want me to just go ahead then and talk? B: All right . M: Well, maybe this, as a way of starting . The generally accepted account is that by the end of 1964, the situation in South Vietnam was rapidly
  • Vietnam
  • Detailed account of U.S. participation in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a t Mr. Johnson had any p a r t i c u l a r r o l e in foreign and m i l i t a r y polic y during t h i s time? He o f course did take a t r i p to Vietnam. H: Did he have any r o l e in i t ? t hin k i t was a h o r r i b l e r o l e . Yes, I t h
  • over civil rights record and because of LBJ’s dependence on McNamara during Vietnam; LBJ’s retirement
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to that and talk about Vietnam. I take it that was not an inspired speech. B: Absolutely not. The exact relation of that to the President was that--in a way we can do better when we get to the substance of it. Let me just talk to the personal thing. I called Walt
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • ]--I can't be absolutely clear on this--that he made allusions to health as being a factor that had caused him to weigh pulling out long before the Vietnam thing had sort of brought that to a head. And indeed we know from various evidence, including
Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ? F: I think the Vietnam conflict has simply made it--I think the atmosphere in Congress and throughout the country has made this a more politically charged issue than it really is, and until that can be worked through I think the possibilities
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • Wilson; Lady Bird; LBJ as VP; LBJ and the Kennedy’s; Medicare Bill; LBJ as President; Johnson treatment; Alabama integration problems; evaluation of LBJ; Vietnam; ranking the presidents; Coolidge anecdote; Congress in the 1920s; National Defense Education
Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Our participation in Vietnam is I think perhaps one of the first times that we have participated in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • Vietnam
  • ; opening a sea lane; jurisdiction questions; Pueblo; Vietnam; Marketime Operation; Cuba; private submarines; undersea navigation; Russian trawlers; responsibility to protect Pribilof Islands; oil spillage; developing sea lanes for commercial vessels
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in a consulting sort of way with a wide spectrum of government. In fact, from 1964 to 1965, when I came here, from May of 1964 until October of 1965, I was deeply involved in studies in Southeast Asia, first for AID and then in Vietnam on an economic assistance
  • Biographical information; developing the Mekong project; Shriver tries to get Zwick into OEO; named assistant budget director; surmise that Vietnam would not last long; the task force to create the Department of Transportation; role of J. Califano
Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , then I think that we can work a new, realistic program on this problem." Johnson thought in November, 1964. That was what President Unfortunately, the Vietnam War and all these things frustrated many of the good ideas that he had. F: Did you ever
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to try to quiet down liberal fears about Vietnam. We had sent Jim Gaither out to California to work with Warren Christopher, our deputy attorney general, and Irvine Sprague, who was our legislative liaison who was from California, to also build up a-M
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the press had a divided mentality. Vietnam obviously was a tremendous issue with the press. When it came to the domestic programs, we had always been getting kind of a snide remark that, "If you're spending all your money in Vietnam you can't spend
Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Bundy to come and insert some kind of system in it. He also recognized that with Vietnam going on and Walt's time concentrated heavily on that, perhaps this was another full-time job, at least for a period of weeks. He just wanted to assure
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • about the decision to send two hundred thousand troops to Vietnam . It is clear that he saw what he might get into at that point and how this might very well cost him popularity . made . I think the decision had, in effect, already been But he asked
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a great deal in what was wrong with it. It's the great tragedy, we all know, of Lyndon Johnson's administration, that the Vietnam War derailed so much of this. But in the mid-sixties, in the period I was with the commission, we had a tremendous attitude
  • Vietnam
  • concept; the commission and federal agencies; effect of Vietnam War; the Watts riot; strengthening of the EEOC; overlapping between Community Relations Service and the Civil Rights Commission; focus on the South and on discrimination against blacks rather
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • already talking about post-Vietnam back in those days. And things like that. But generally we stayed clear of getting involved in specific legislation. F: As long as you've brought the name up, what did you think of Wright Patman's grasp of economics
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ] Betancourt had been the big figure after Gallegos and he may be coming back as the next candidate. F: Did Vietnam become a real problem to you? B: Yes, yes. I think the governmental reaction was that although they understood our problem
  • Vietnam
  • ) with Ecuador; oil exploration in Ecuador; Peace Corps volunteers in Ecuador; Santa Domingo; Punra del Este Conference; Canadian vs. Venezuelan oil; effect of Vietnam War on Alliance for Progress; Inter-American Bank; U.S. business community in Venezuela
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • during the vice-presidential years privately on the way things were going in Vietnam? H: Well, he was frustrated, to say the least. He'd been over there. He was--well, I'll be honest with you, he did not discuss it very much. I think he really felt
  • Jr.'s views on Vietnam; Humphrey Jr. not wanting to talk about work at home; Humphrey Jr.'s response to LBJ's delayed support in the 1968 presidential election; Skip's work on the 1968 presidential campaign; Skip's view of the 1968 campaign and why
Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for killing fifty thousand American boys for practically no reason at all in addition to all the other damage. But I will say that if he hadn't been tricked, either by his ego or by his associates up there, into the Vietnam War, and the United States had
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . D: I came out against troop involvement in Vietnam at the time the Dien They would call in the [questionJ. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Bien
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in disagreement with the Kennedy Administration's sale of wheat to the Soviet Union. Did he ever talk about that? N: No. I don't [recall it]. G: HO\'J about on Vietnam at the time he was vice president? He went to Vietnam once. N: Yes, he did. the staff
  • Vietnam
  • and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • taken more than its share of the cuts in light of the situation in Vietnam and in the cities and poverty and social programs. I think he agreed with this--that we had indeed, when it was necessary to reassess national priorities and redirect the money
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Here are some of our problems with Staggers. The unions did go to Staggers and then say that they would move the Vietnam stuff, military stuff, and public health, as an LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Abram V. Goodman, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1996, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • him for his social vision, which I think is not yet appreciated in the United States. I did not agree with him on Vietnam, but he inherited that bugbear from previous administrations, and he did not play quite fairly to himself. That's my story
Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • valuable men in the Defense Department. G: That was nice. K: Evidently you were enjoying high standing there--what was it that appealed to you about the HEW position? G: Well, it was a tough time, actually, with Vietnam. Just that summer we began
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Kosygin or it could be a new policy strategy in Vietnam or anything like this that was not of a public nature, if something like that came up and he had committed an event somewhere else, he would be forced to cancel the event. And it was his feeling
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that in the role that evolved for George Ball, though not necessarily shared by Dean Rusk, on the whole Vietnam thing, that if the NSC's wings had been severely clipped, which, of course, has never happened. It's continued to get more and more powerful clear up
  • and the Limited Test Ban Treaty; informing LBJ of the coup against Diem in Vietnam; Vice-President LBJ’s lack of inclusion in NSC events; problems between JFK’s and LBJ’s staffs; LBJ’s loyalty to Kennedy; LBJ’s distaste for protocol; events surrounding Walter
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Abram -- Interview I -- 10 and the disillusionment of blacks and whites with each other in their common efforts were unraveling. The Vietnam War was heating up. Martin King, who was on the executive
Oral history transcript, Judge R.E. Thomason, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • presidents have had so many problems to deal with. I think Vietnam is his most serious one. If he can settle that dispute much of the ill feeling now against him will subside and he will regain much of the popularity that he has enjoyed for so many years. I
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • monetary decisions were to be coordinated with fiscal decisions. M: Is the basic problem here the increased expenditure in the Vietnam War? G: Oh yes. This was the basic problem. This was the main source of the increased government spending which
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • presidents get is Vietnam, Cuba, Berlin, all of these things. F: Middle East. H: The Middle East. They have got to have somebody to talk to, and the one that they can feel easiest with regardless of party is the man who was in there before. F: Former
  • Vietnam
  • ; NASA; 49th and 50th states settled under Ike; JFK-LBJ ticket; JFK’s death; LBJ as President; Vietnam.
Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that in this respect the White House felt that civil rights leaders who had been opposed to the Vietnam condition should not be included LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in Vietnam has been effective? M: It's been effective, although I don't think, personally, that it's LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library