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Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the initial Vietnam appropriation went up . There were many more people concerned about this overaged expansion dying :out than about a takeoff into a boom . And the famous Martin speech of June `65 was focused largely on the stretched-out financial system
  • Vietnam
  • How Vietnam influenced budget requests during the war; how LBJ’s decisions were affected by all the Vietnam-related pressures on him; the LBJ to Nixon transition; wage and price controls; rationing rumors. Oral history attached to memorial tributes
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the cliche of the time was that LBJ cares more about the war in Vietnam than the war against poverty. Now, I always thought that was an unfair comment to make about the President. I never doubted for a moment that his heart continued to be there, but his mind
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the zip code; working with, and learning from, European mail systems; trips to Europe to learn about their postal systems; O'Brien's visit with Pope Paul VI and their conversation regarding Vietnam; efforts to improve mail service between the U.S
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , relatively, for me to raise hell about it, because what the hell! Dean was deeply involved with Vietnam, an Arab-Israeli war, and with Pueblo , and things like that, and why should I take up his time with things which, in the long run, were not truly
  • Vietnam
  • 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, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • at the 1960 Democratic Convection; Philip Graham; Herman Talmadge; Alsop's writing about the Vietnam War; Bill Moyers; criticism of LBJ's approach to Vietnam; Alsop being invited to visit privately with presidents; LBJ's unpredictable nature' Robert McNamara
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • really in the summer of 1965, as either thi s Mill et [?J or some other hi.storian I was reading last week put it, LBJ tried to have the Great Society and Vietnam at the same time. G: Guns and butter, as they [say]. B: The ones of us, includi.ng him
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Vietnam much earlier. And he jumped right down my throat. G: Did he? S: Because that was a sore subject. My reasoning was that if there had been debates, I thought [Barry] Goldwater would have put him on the spot to the point where he would have taken
  • problems at the 1968 Democratic National Convention; LBJ’s actions in regard to Vietnam; Stanton’s 1965 trip to Vietnam; criticism about press coverage of Vietnam; different Presidents’ reactions to press coverage the repeal of the Communications Act
Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it was bringing the Vietnam War into every living room every day at this time of rising tensions. F: I think TV may have killed the war, in a sense. G: I think that he might have had some soul-searching toward the end. I think always when he went into Vietnam
  • Thomas’ first meeting with LBJ; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ and newsmen; covering the 1960 campaign; White House press corps; LBJ’s vice-presidential years; Mrs. Johnson’s trip through the South; television and the Vietnam War; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • with him on his surprise trip to Vietnam? T: Yes. We carried three pilots, what
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • - that's how I would describe the sequence. The Vietnam War spending deserves more emphasis, because that is what necessitated a big ta'\. increase in 1968 (it should have come no later than 1966). My belief that LBJ and McNamara somehow hid the spending
  • meeting with LBJ, during which LBJ asked for ABA support for JFK's tax bill; LBJ's interest in keeping the budget under $100 billion; the "credibility gap"; secret increased spending for Vietnam; the 1968 tax surcharge; LBJ's education bill
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • public on Vietnam to gain support; Judd's opinion on how America has treated Native Americans and other minorities throughout history; why it is unwise to give newly independent countries too much aid and/or full United Nations status; a 1946 bill Judd
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • knowledge of small things, as well as great things. He could get as interested in what kind of grass is growing in the field at Camp Gary, and what kind of fertilizer is being used on it, as he was able to concentrate on the pressing problems of Vietnam
  • ; tension between LBJ and Bill Moyers; the possibility of Crook heading OEO; how Crook became the ambassador to Australia; problems between LBJ and Ralph Yarborough; Crook's views on Vietnam and the November 1968 bombing halt; LBJ's agony over Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 22 Vietnam War. M: The situation and not the man? D: Yes
  • Vietnam
  • House press apparatus; Dean Acheson; Dean Rusk; Senator Aiken; Congressman Moss; Mr. Rooney; Mr. Katzenbach; Eugene Rostow; the press; Joe Alsop; Vietnam coverage; mail; lag time in making records available; Douglas Cater; transition; Lady Bird; trip
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • think that the fact that the Vietnam War has occupied so much of the President's attention that this has, say, increased the participation and expansion of the Staff on domestic programs? G: No, I don't think it's really the war. I think the fact
Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . (Interruption) M: Did Mr. Johnson get involved in your political race in Ohio in 1964 at a 11? T: I don't believe so particularly. No, the Senate race-- M: Was Stephen Young's opposition to the Vietnam War public by that LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about this and believed, I don't know why he believed it, but he indicated there was some leak out of our department that some way or other got over to North Vietnam, whether through the Russians or whatever he thought, he didn't say. But he was con
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Louchheim -- II -- 6 do. I was interested in someone like Joe Alsop, who was very strong on Vietnam, very pro-Vietnam, but convinced that the President was a poor president
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • including agricultural extension work in Vietnam; Dept. of Agriculture’s divisions; outside organizations that affect the Agriculture Dept. and its legislative programs; Orville Freeman.
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , the other thing you have to remember at that time was that it seemed very likely that President Johnson would be re-elected easily in the forthcoming election. This was before the McCarthy binge. It was before the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. At the time I
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • government positions; reaction to Kerner Commission report; MLK; Vietnam War criticized by black people; innate compassionate nature of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • many economists who thought that 1966 would be a year of downturn even in the economy. F: Even despite Vietnam? M: Oh, yes, because nobody really, I think, at that time was aware of just how much buildup was occurring in Vietnam. F: Do you have
  • and economic changes after LBJ became president; Mills’ easy access to LBJ and JFK; the signing of the Medicare Bill; Vietnam; financial/economic issues; effects of 1967 European gold run on LBJ’s thinking; LBJ’s decision not to seek re-election; how
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? This was the time when Vietnam was placing a lot of pressure on the budget. You had difficulties in expanding programs? 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , and I think it was this experience that probably led him to leave. Now he fully appreciated that Johnson was in a box, with Mills on the one hand and a budget getting out of control on the other. With the war in Vietnam [and] increasing costs of programs
  • and Technology (OST) and the President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC); the effects of Sputnik and the Vietnam War on medical and education programs; the Commission on Heart, Cancer and Stroke; trip to Washington, DC, to present the Commission's report to JFK
Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to all kinds of violent but unjustified criticism, most of which was ridiculous and utterly unfounded. He had the Vietnam situation foisted upon him, and many other of the other matters, not of his own choosing. the blame for all of that. He had
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as vice president. F: What were your duties primarily? A: At that time I worked most specifically with Mike Forrestal on then a little-discussed part of the world known as Southeast Asia. We did a good deal relating to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 5 (V), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Somebody catered that; I believe it was out of Fredericksburg. I was there. G: Then they had a reception at the Fredericksburg fairgrounds, I think. W: Yes. G: In May was when LBJ made that Far Eastern trip and went to Vietnam for the first time. Did
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • out against it. Any recollections of that? C: No. I don't recall this as a major fight. (Long pause) (Laughter) "Consequently we had more JetStars in the air than we had planes over Vietnam that day." (Long pause) I mean I think you have to put
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Vietnam relate to this issue at all? C: The State Department people, Rusk and others, were concerned that taking too hard a line on this would make us--along with the problems we were beginning to have in Vietnam and the concerns people in the world were
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the responsibility that had fallen on him. I think it did him good [to see us]. He got then the bipartisan pledge of loyalty from all the governors that held up, I guess, on through 1966, right through the Vietnam enlargement of troops. F: A pretty long run. RH
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • intervention and during the Vietnam escalation in 1965. J: As a background, the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate was always the depositing ground for dissenters and unpopular senators. That was not a good appointment. Foreign Relations back
Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)
  • increasingly involved in the Vietnam issue and, most particularly, beginning to be rubbed pretty raw on the budget front. What he did not want was a) a conference that would stir up a lot of dust that could be exploited by partisans and in the media and look
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the 1966 budget was returned by the Budget Bureau that the first shock of the impact of Vietnam seeped in. a hammer blow! It didn't seep in, it hit with And I well recall that Joe Kershaw, the Director of Research Program Planning and Evaluation
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • 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.
Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • now to about two billion, to my recollection, and I think it will be reduced further this year. B: In connection with Vietnam, the major foreign policy problem of the Johnson Administration, do you feel that Mr. Johnson adequately consulted Congress
Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to twenty billions of dollars, and we thought we could cut that down a bit because the Army and Navy and Air Force had built up their supplies. is true with this crisis over in Vietnam. Now, of course, the opposite When that crisis is over, it is my humble
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • independently of me, that one of the reasons we blundered so much in Vietnam was that the people that Johnson inherited from Kennedy were afraid of Johnson and never levelled with him, and vice versa, that Johnson was afraid of them. Neither of them ever
  • Vietnam
  • Convention; Minow’s prediction that LBJ would not run for President in 1968; 1968 Convention and LBJ’s control; Hubert Humphrey’s campaign for President, feelings for LBJ, and refusal to oppose Vietnam War.
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Nasser as a person? Vietnam primarily. Now you said that of course you didn't have direct conversations with him, but you observed him in action, I'm sure, in conversations with ambassadors. N: He was certainly very charismatic. palm of his hand. He