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Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

sure the Vietnam war and the whole thing--it was kinda in his mind at all times there, and he just kind of relaxed a little bit and said, "I’m glad this is somebody else’s problem." G: Did he ever talk about Vietnam to you folks? BW: Yes. TW: Yes
for the LBJ National Historic Park; LBJ as a neighbor; LBJ’s impulsiveness and joking nature; LBJ’s views on Vietnam; the Weinheimers being at the Ranch with LBJ during the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago; LBJ’s perfectionism; LBJ’s health after

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Article in FOREIGN AFFAIRS; Wisemen’s meetings; no military plan for victory in Vietnam; San Antonio formula; divided opinion regarding Vietnam among cabinet members; task force to study sending additional troops to Vietnam; RFK-Sorenson suggestion

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

so long in planning the Arts Festival. He knows very well why the President delayed so long, because the President told us all why he delayed so long, and we knew it at the time! B: What was the reason? A: It was because of the war in Vietnam

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was sort of in kind of a quiet stage in 1964 and 1965. B: No. It was in a quiet stage, and the quiet stage was the product of the situation. Even if there had been no war in Vietnam and no preoccupation with the domestic society, you might have seen

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

on the Vietnam thing. was magnificent in this. But Wayne MOrse He fully understood the tactic, realized the wisdom of having the bill run through the House (if we could get it through) and pass it through the Senate like greased lightning, and [snap

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

reasonably well, but Vietnam came along. We had increased our trade balance to a level of about five billion dollars between 1961 and 1964. We were operating with the advantages of a slower economy, less pressure on prices, less pressure on costs, and so

Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

House. This was the day he announced the acceleration in Vietnam. And twenty or twenty-five men, I guess, were over there waiting on the Presidentfs Club drive. And he frightened me half to death that day because he cmne in and he saw me sitting

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to this problem. P: How much has the war in Vietnam affected the domestic programs? G: Well, that's very hard to answer. Getting to the problem I was just discussing in terms of the people who are here. Now, political analysts go both ways as to whether
Vietnam
Partnership for Health; Health Manpower Bill; problem of funding programs; influence of Vietnam War; poverty programs; Head Start; Neighborhood Youth Corps; OEO problems/achievements; summation of legislative program development

Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

years he was President. The confidence he has reposed in the key people he has appointed has been justified. Then on the other hand, we've had the Vietnam situation which detracted from these needed domestic programs, which focused attention and minds

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

was running a little surplus, and he had lots of money for the Great Needless to say, the economic program, the Society programs. Great Society programs and the reputation of Lyndon Johnson all went to hell in a hand basket as a result of Vietnam. a great

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

call the best of friends. Sometimes ironies keep coming up. Paul was probably the liberal most valuable to Lyndon Johnson during the Vietnam War because Paul was as much for the Vietnam War as Lyndon Johnson-M: About the only one he had left. R

Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. Actually then while I was in this office, we recruited Dr. Jessup back from Iran to head an office of population reference and research. office for awhile. He was really a one-man I was actually on a trip around the world in India and Vietnam and Korea

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in Vietnam were the first that I had really heard in serious academic circles. I think I made a statement that night to the President, something about the distinction between the noisy and the numerous academics. But I'm afraid as the years went
Vietnam
; policy-making; meeting in White House mess hall; origin of rent supplement idea; paper on accomplishments of preceding year in urban affairs; Model Cities task force; appointment; conflict between cost and tax requirements of Great Society and Vietnam War

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Laitin -- IV -- 7 G: I get the impression that when they soured on Vietnam that upset him more than when a lot of other people did. As I recall it bothered him quite a bit, yes. I think that when you look back on Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

very fearful of It... I think when a man like Eisenhower comes out .and says that what we've got to worry about is the military industrial axis--he's no hippie. F: No! Do you thi~~ Vietnam may serve some kind of therapeutic value down the line

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. They were all there together many times at various things like this, as well as taking on missions for him. I remember Whitney Young went to Vietnam and did a very significant kind of report. You see, in the offshoots of these continuing kinds

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

side. But this is a very difficult question. I saw what I thought was a great deal of sheer mindless assault on the President. And I sometimes strongly suspected it was to defend a vested interest in anti-Vietnamism with which the man who held
Criticism of LBJ’s domestic programs and Vietnam War credibility gap; polls; DNC; Vietnam settlement; appraisal of LBJ; relationship with Lady Bird.

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to Cousin Oreole's? W: We'd go down there, to the cemetery. G: Did he talk about the men in his family not living long? W: Yes, sure did. G: Did he ever talk to you about Vietnam? W: Yes, sure did. G: What did he say? W: I was one of the people
in 1968; going on walks with LBJ near the Ranch after the presidency; LBJ's fear that the Soviet Union would retaliate if the U.S. were to bomb North Vietnam; entertaining at the LBJ Ranch; Reverend Wunibald Schneider; LBJ's experience with Masonry; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

use some help in explaining the Vietnam war to my son." And he meant it sort of facetiously. The President said, "Come back, come back, sit down." And Cohen said, "Then for forty-five minutes, he talked about the war in the most lucid, coherent
; the bipartisan nature of HEW's work; Huitt's work on the International Education Act and getting funding for it; the effect of money going toward funding Vietnam involvement rather than domestic programs for education; Huitt's involvement with consumer bills

Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ingram -- I -- 9 I: I think he had grown up without a great deal and probably at the outset had not been able--my opinion of President Johnson, and I told even my children, who became--who went to college at the time of the Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Kennedy family attitude toward LBJ; Kennedy staff; discussions of staffing pattern for the White House; 1964 campaign; Republican National Convention, 1964; Walter Jenkins; Vietnam issue in the campaign; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; LBJ’s inheriting

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Gun control bill; Barefoot Sanders; Housing and Urban Development Act; effect of the Vietnam War on Great Society programs; Vietnam War; March 31 statement; 1968 Democractic convention; Mayor Daley's role; congressional working relationship with LBJ

Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to somebody in the department; they want to talk to somebody at the White House. In situations like Vietnam or like Korea, many times you have families calling in and that sort of thing. Customarily the best place to refer those is to the office of the armed

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the final decision. Now this is the side that the public never sees. the fellow on the trapeze, you know, it looks easy. distressed about Vietnam. be solved. It's like That's why I'm If he couldn't solve it, it probably can't I mean because this guy's

Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Asia and it was done consciously. It is most unfortunate in a way that this is sue had to be forced on the Vietnam problem. But to rne- -and I had not only three years on the mainland of China but I had ten years on the East Asian environs. First

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, as I see it, in the 1950 l s the trouble in Vietnam was not anticipated much. I just mention in passing, I made several floor speeches as early as 154, as I opposed to us going in there, alone especially. I think all of us, and I put myself first

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

~ because of the Vietnam situation. I think that Johnson did just exactly the right thing to help Humphrey. He did everything Humphrey asked him to do. no more, nor any less. He did He wanted to help Hubert Humphrey be elected president of the United

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Gordon -- I -- 3 M: You would draw no parallel then between Hitler's aggression and the aggression, say, in Vietnam? G: I would

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

insignificant, almost inconsequential in the budget, probably deserves to be told. M: In your period as Budget Director, did you feel increasing pressure from the military because of Vietnam. G: No. Vietnam, from a budgetary point of view, didn't really

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was abundant The job was The Vietnam toll had not yet been felt. Money and Mr. Gardner was the great charismatic leader with the "long view" of America's destiny which fitted in perfectly with the excitement of the times. His job then was to bring aboard

Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

in this terrible war in Vietnam. If Vietnam could be solved during his administration, he would rather have that than any other thing that could happen to him. 6: Well, Mr. Harte, again we've wandered somewhat from our chronological presentation, but we had

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-sixties when the combination of Vietnam and the Dominican Republic began to draw them apart that they split. Johnson's foreign policy was very largely what today we would regard as Scoop [Henry] Jackson foreign policy, leaving out the Soviet Jewry business

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of patronage; how Matt McCloskey became ambassador to Ireland and Henry Cabot Lodge became ambassador to South Vietnam; the importance to Italian-Americans of the appointments of Salvatore Bontempo and Anthony Celebrezze; the possibility of an ambassadorship

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

" committee, which is the term, I think, used by the [David] Kraslow and [Stuart] Loory book [The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam, 1968]. In general, how accurate is that book? R: Well, it's depressingly accurate in its major tale, which is the whole
operation; Tuesday lunches; dissemination in the State Department of Tuesday lunch decisions; White House guidance on distribution of cable traffic in State Department; Kraslow and Loory’s The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam; Polisy “Marigold” Affair

Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

other during that campaign about the problem going on in Vietnam. They worked through me on that. I mean, they may have worked through other people, too. I'm sure they did. I recall very well riding down the Florida Turnpike with my son Bruce, who is now

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

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, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to him about his decision? C: No. F: Did he ever talk to you about the war? Vietnam? C: No, sir. F: Mississippi, I don't have to tell you, particularly this part of No. Again, I was not on the committee then. Mississippi, has boomed

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