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Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , "I have problems of my own." And he proceeded to talk for--I'm just guessing the time factors--roughly fifteen minutes about his own concerns: the Vietnam War, the impossibility in the face of that of countenancing a steel strike. He talked about
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • ; contact with LBJ and White House staff; Vietnam; Johnson Administration legislative briefings; the Pueblo incident; reflections on LBJ in various situations; comparison and evaluation of the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . He apparently had unlimited time to try to solve these problems. B: Would he also talk to you about things beyond the problems of the cities, Vietnam and his other activities? A: Well, [in] one of our first visits to the White House after he came
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • des cribe that. mayors, head of the Disabled That was rather a hectic trip. That ' s not directly related to the President, but wei re interested in his times as well. Did you really get a chance to look at the Vietnames e elections? B: Yes
  • ; Berlin Wall issue; Barr as an observer during the 1967 Vietnam elections; Barr's view of the War on Poverty; Model Cities; Head Start; 1964 LBJ campaign visit to Pittsburgh; the March 31, 1968 speech; 1968 Democratic convention; housing issues; 1968
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • of investment credit with Vietnam War; Bill Martin; credit crunch; Senators Russell and Stennis; tax policies; TROIKA; Quadriad; 1968 travel tax; raising debt; limitations removal of gold limit for Federal Reserve Notes; close communications with other
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • of investment credit with Vietnam War; Bill Martin; credit crunch; Senators Russell and Stennis; tax policies; TROIKA; Quadriad; 1968 travel tax; raising debt; limitations removal of gold limit for Federal Reserve Notes; close communications with other
Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in this country, even with the Vietnam War dragging on our economic necks like an albatross, we have still done more in the field of domestic programs, in education, in health improvement, � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was in his committee room and his office. M: Did you and your husband travel to Vietnam? T: No, I went. M: When was this? T: December of 1966 to January 1967. M: Did you do this in the capacity of a Congresswoman? T: Partly. You see, I went out
  • ; Vietnam; special election after Thomas’ death; AID program; National Space Hall of Fame.
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 6 (VI), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to the Philippines, and ten to Thailand. It's obvious that all of these had a great deal of connection with communications to Vietnam. These communications were in critical supply. This was at a time when our Vietnam effort was expanding a great deal and the present
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and naval power in Vietnam. Admiral [Arthur] Radford presented a plan for the use of their power to relieve French troops at Dien Ben Phu, because at that time we still called it pretty much "Indochina." It was the stone around France's neck, and that became
  • Social events of the 1950s; Senator Theodore Francis Green; Sam Rayburn; Senator Walter George; Herbert Hoover; Lady Bird Johnson's miscarriages in 1954; the political situation in Vietnam in 1954; the Texas governor's race between Allan Shivers
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Kraslow and Stuart H. Loory, The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam (New York: 1968)]. Can you clear some of this up? What about Marigold, for example, which was in process when you got here apparently? K: Oh, I think it's hard to-- in general
  • ; 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 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • done whatever he did the last time with Regulation Q and said that there were 215,000 men in Vietnam, that there were 20,000 more on the way, and by September 1 he would have 40,000 more to add to the 235,000 that would be there. Talked about the GNP
Oral history transcript, Ewing Hass, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: Senator Kuchel supported the administration on the Vietnam War. H: Right. 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • to Vietnam conflict)
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and instinctively decided that he should go to the funeral. Holt had been a personal friend of his, and Australia had been and was a very good friend of the United States, particularly with its participation in Vietnam. So I first heard about the possibility
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • I can re:r:cmber right nOW--'tVe met with the idea of getting up a full-pagfo on it saying, "He're it That group you just H: No. '\\fhat VIC right around there. Q~nti0ned did ,'las pl~::' York Times with a big headline Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the most devisive things we've ever had in our government. One was the war in Vietnam and the other was the poverty program. The poverty program was constructed to be devisive, at least the Conununity Action part of it. One time Abe Fortas couldn't
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the Vietnam situation. So I felt badly for this man, I really did, because he was a tremendous patriot. So we went and spent that weekend with them, and it \'/asa lovely weekend, which was his last weekend in the White House. F: ~~hat R: Yes. didyoudo
Oral history transcript, Gerard C. Smith, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • judgments about the Vietnam policy. So I don't think the MLF thing 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, Philip Lee, interview 2 (II), 1/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • things he did in this was appointing John Gardner as Secretary of HEW, because this was a person in whom private industry, the professions, the educators had enormous confidence. And despite the press of other problems in Vietnam, in particular
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • relate to the press? We know later on, in the sixties and during the Vietnam War he had a lot of trouble with the press. But earlier, in the forties and fifties, how did he relate to the press? For instance, Stuart Long probably wrote more favorable
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the Foreign Relations Committee. But that challenge was underway then. Mu: It's not new with the Vietnam protest in other words? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • Vietnam
  • ; comparison of Congressional relation to foreign policy; Vietnam; LBJ’s speech regarding Dulles’ illness; Majority Leader’s interest in foreign policy; comparison of Eisenhower, LBJ and JFK administrations in foreign affairs; JFK-LBJ transition beautiful
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and this was long before, as we know, Vietnam. G: Yet I have the impression that Johnson did not at all try to hasten Green's departure. M: No, that's right. He had a compliant, pleasant chairman, someone whom he had held in esteem and fondness and saw no reason
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • problems from time to time. R: That's right. I think it's a very subtle, complex, difficult kind of struggle to carry out. M: Mentioning the present--early 1970--president Nixon's policy has gained the title "Vietnamization."How different do you
  • Coordination of military and political effort problem; Nixon Vietnam problem; U.S. relations with mainland China, Laos, Thailand, Japan and Okinawa, Indonesia and Korea; Pueblo incident; India’s food problem; the Alliance for Progress; the Panama
Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the cause of the disorganization? B: The voters thought they were on a loser--the Vietnam War--Johnson had abdicated, so to speak, and he sure wasn't helping Mr . Humphrey any at that time . M: He said nothing . y, I have heard that Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and political capital. There were times when he talked about should he quit, could he do any more good? This particularly became clear as the Vietnam War and the priority issue became clearer. And he would say, "Somebody has got to hang in there, and I can't
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as Vietnam became more of a problem. But was it in a sense unified, or did you have a wide range? A: I would say a wide range. with him. All the way through, I must say I was A lot of the Hollywood people like Shirley Maclaine and Sandy Vanocur
Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ask you this then, about Chicago . Do you feel that the debate on the platform was adequate at the Chicago convention? B: Are you speaking of the platform itself? M: About Vietnam in particular . B: Well, I just don't know how you arrive
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 2 (II), 9/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Texas Republican Party history; aftermath of the JFK assassination;; Jack Porter; Tower’s Senatorial campaigns; LBJ’s treatment of Tower; Yarborough’s relationship with LBJ; HemisFair; patronage; Henry Gonzalez; 1946 election; Vietnam.
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . There were areas where we felt we could be expanding some kinds of programs. It became more evident as the Vietnam War continued, of the reallocation of our resources. And there was the separation in terms of the war issue. But I think, with regard
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Executive Office Building], the photographs, the television, everything we could use. So that you build up over time in the view of the country that these are guys that have the ability to help or hurt our boys in Vietnam, to either screw the American people
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be there to oppose him on Vietnam. I would emphasize, I have no [proof]. I can't prove that, but by this time I'd worked for the President for nine months and that certainly entered my mind as this thing unfolded. G: LBJ never mentioned anything to that effect
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recollection is that in late December of 1965 or early in 1966 he virtually stopped drinking, and he did it because of the war. My recollection is because Vietnam was twelve hours off and he was constantly concerned that he wouldn't be absolutely at his peak. I
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that part. C: Yes, he did. Well, in any case, to really appreciate it--he was getting so revved up. He said, "Fifty thousand people are dying now. There are fourteen hundred have died in Vietnam. We lost fifty thousand, fifty times that people, right here
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to talk to Temple about it. I was the first guy to find out about it. I thought at the time we did not take it to Johnson at that moment because he had some tough issue on Vietnam or something else that he was dealing with and we knew what kind of a blow
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • not want to recommend Rostow. The other was that--now let me state this very carefully--that we feared he had lost credibility in the academic community by virtue of his strong identification with the war in Vietnam. I am not saying--I am not saying