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Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • others. But it was a small group and we sat around drinking and chatting. I remember the talk was basically about Vietnam. I was very untutored in that area and I was asking questions of the President about something which in retrospect seems so highly
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to close some centers. It was because of the Vietnam War and we had some budget crunches. That's right. Those sites were selected, as you say, for maybe right program reasons but wrong political [reasons]. G: Was BOB sympathetic to Job Corps, do you think
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of why he took that position, but the President, one has to remember, was under terrific fire from all different parts of the American population, and he was so preoccupied by the war in Vietnam that I guess you could say if I wasn't there to take
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . ferent kind of thing . But that was a dif­ Now, if we had had a different set of circum­ stances, if Vietnam and other things hadn't done what they did, I might have been talking to him last fall . But that isn't the way the ball bounces, and you
Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in with his ideas of politics, and I can understand why . How could he win the 1966 election if he started to constrain the welfare programs in order to conduct the Vietnam engagement . And how could he, once we got in the Vietnam engagement say, "Well, you
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with the tremendous use of helicopters, the kind we have now in Vietnam, and it was the military that was reluctant to go forward with the experiment. I went down with Vance. Shortly after we were there, maybe three or four months, Powell Pierpont, who
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on the same side from the moment--except for the increase in discount rate action in December of 1965, Fowler and Martin were basically on the same side of economic policy once the Vietnam buildup started in July of 1965. They both felt we were going too fast
Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • wanted peace, wanted to help a poorer people, and wanted to frame some future for Asia that would give it the same security that Europe has as a result of American actions . are obvious . were. The failures The North Vietnam ese were tougher than he
  • Biographical information; the 1960 convention; Russell urges LBJ not to accept the vice-presidential nomination; Ralph McGill; anecdote of the MLK funeral; LBJ and the Ashmore-Baggs visit to North Vietnam; LBJ asks Patterson to serve on the Civil
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • to a wide spectrum of people, with a wide range of views. He'll talk to Harry McPherson and Dick Goodwin and to Marvin Watson and Walt Rostow, maybe all on Vietnam; and you've got two completely opposing views and political philosophies. No doubt when he
Oral history transcript, Manuel Cohen, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • him, I called Kermit and he came through. Of course, in those days he had a little more time. He wasn't so much taken by Vietnam and the heavy burden of office which he suffered in the later years. He hadn't gotten to the point where he couldn't
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] Fulbright had done that to Lyndon, we could have closed out the Vietnam War in six months. know. G: Now, this is being real critical, I That's the reason why Booth figured-- Do you remember that incident that he describes of you talking to Booth Mooney
Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • in getting the arts bill to a vote; Steverns' work in relation to the arts; Arthur Schlesinger's re-appointment to the Kennedy Center board; Neil Sheehan's book A Bright Shining Lie; Steven's view of General William Westmoreland; how the war in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, William Dayton Maclay, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • years our involvement overseas, particularly in Vietnam, has caused LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the winter of 1966 Harold Hughes was close to Lyndon Johnson. They had a falling out over Vietnam in December of 1966, but at least, as of that time, they were close. As a matter of fact, he seconded Johnson's nomination at Atlantic City. So Hughes asked
  • Vietnam
  • Kennedy and staff in 1965 over an anti-Vietnam speech; work at the White House as a House of Representatives liaison and assistant to Marvin Watson; Chicago and Philadelphia ghetto experiences and ghetto reports to LBJ; rise of black power; White House
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Johnson the various stages of the drafting of the platform? M: Yes, and talking about some of the provisions in it, and particularly the plank with respect to Vietnam. B: But he didn't say change it? M: He did not say change it. He did not say
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Wilcox, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 W: Yes. B: Has there been any special emphasis in that area? For example, has the Vietnam problem created additional emphasis on Southeast Asia? W: Yes, it has, but I would say that one of the things
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • said, "Is Walter Reuther the president, or are you the president?" (Laughter) He was talking about labor generally when he said Walter Reuther. G: Did you and he relate the need for a surcharge to Vietnam; was that--? M: That's right
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • passed; Alaska's vote for Nixon in 1960; Vietnam War
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)
  • that shouting outside that windowof objections to the war in Vietnam and that is very painful particularly in the ]ast year when each of them have a husband over there~ .. But they also got to see this great country in a marvelous way in which they met a lot
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • if were involved on this you couldn't will in connection in connection with with the South along? some of the same people Vietnam with that the same kind of advice but not much. think those in this, and I suppose The great of anything
  • ; the Senior Interdepartmental Group; the AID program; national security advisers; crisis management; Vietnam policy-making; the "nongroup;" Walt Rostow as a second secretary of state; peace feelers; Marigold; the Ashmore-Baggs trip; anatomy of leaks; the March
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -ons by congressional action or because of the war in Vietnam. Secondly, we scrapped an idea that [Henry "Joe"] Fowler had, to get a congressional resolution for--in effect directing the President to reduce expenditures, and instead just went
Oral history transcript, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the commander of our Pacific forces to review the production of bombs--non-nuclear bombs--for use in Vietnam because there were some indications that there might be a possible shortage. At least claims were being made that there might be a shortage, and we
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • they may have been for his not running, were only injustices against this great man. This great American who was trying so hard to do everything for everyone. And yet in a way because of the times and the Vietnam situation he was unable to continue. I
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • seldon far as did h e ) ::;:3.t. , I else, T: ", effect and I, like almost everybody the view that it was just going to relate to Vietn am--and ,c, only to Vietnam. held a that speech to,} S['"~'7 ",(~ ""-'''. I rerr,(?nber that on Sat 'r-day
  • Vietnam
  • help bring an end to the war in Vietnam; LBJ’s interest in reactions; Governor Rockefeller; MLK assassination and the subsequent Washington riots; the process by which a President can get the help of federal troops; D.C. Mayor Water Washington; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -- I -- 27 it got into big things. It got into the phony budget and Vietnam. M: Tltat's how it changed from earlier presidents? S: Sure. I think Vietnam--again, the cancer. And I really think that Lyndon Johnson thought that he could get
Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • unhappy at the present time, because the way in which your two beneficiaries are conducting the campaign, it is giving aid and comfort to the enemy in Vietnam. It is prolonging this warfare over there because of the feeling that the North Vietnamese have
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was with Chiang Kai-shek in Chiang Kai-shek's We were on this tour. He was vice president, and Kennedy had sent him to Vietnam and other places on this tour. extremely hard on this thing. Johnson was He had one press conference at one thirty in the morning
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • investigations; Nathan Report from Brookings and its effect on efforts to overcome poverty in the U.S.; impressions of Sargent Shriver and Shriver’s work with OEO; LBJ’s attitude toward OEO; how Vietnam affected all programs; the role of loyalty to LBJ in getting
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it, was an effort to draft perhaps the most consequential statement of the Johnson Administration to that date. We would call for a Vietnam bombing pause. There were, I believe, some twenty-eight or thirty drafts of this message written. Each one was written
  • State of the Union messages; 20-30 versions of March 31, 1968, speech regarding Vietnam bombing pause and the postscript of LBJ’s withdrawal as a presidential candidate; detailed account of March 31; work on final draft of speech, presentation
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would--it's a matter of judgment and knowledge. People have to be informed, and there are not enough members, really, that are informed on economics. Tape 1 of 2, Side 2 G: Let me ask you to assess the impact of the Vietnam War on the Great Society
  • and Russell Long; LBJ signing the Medicare bill; Wilbur Cohen; White House legislative liaison program; LBJ’s power of persuasion; understanding the relationship between economics and government; Vietnam War and its effect on domestic programs; inflation
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • -- 23 recently won the National Spelling Bee and hadn't been in this country but two or three years, and they were interviewing, asking her why so many Orientals who--some of these boat people from Vietnam--why they were doing so well academically
  • John Connally and LBJ; Connally's efforts to get governors' support for LBJ's actions in Vietnam; clashes between Connally and Ronald Reagan; the purpose of JFK's 1963 trip to Texas; how things changed in Texas when LBJ became president; a LBJ Ranch
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this. He made a speech in Vietnam-G: This is at Cam Ranh Bay? A: Cam Ranh Bay, first time he went through there in 1967. We'd been to Manila. He wouldn't let us take anybody with me. I was allowed to take on that occasion one man with me
  • with the podiums, microphones, and transporting the teleprompter system; recording problems in Vietnam; the fact that LBJ was a more effective speaker in a small non-televised setting; problems with a PA system in Pocatello, Idaho; arguing with LBJ; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • is concerned, he did his utmost best to try to win a victory in Vietnam, but he just couldn't succeed. He tried real hard. However, let us go back to 1961. The years when he became President, then of course he came to church here, and I would say almost every
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of my associates on that board and said, "He's not going to run for reelection." Because he told us then about how tough it was for him to bid goodbye to the troops going to Vietnam. He'd just been out on that West Coast trip, and he'd been aboard
Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)