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Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . We'd have a much more leisurely time and could explore the river banks and some of the places they were particularly fond of. Then Lynda came bouncing in with a whole set of photographs that Chuck had taken of Pat in Vietnam, and Lynda was ribbing over
Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • this a little strong but--and I think if I had to name--I'm a great supporter of his policies from Vietnam on down the line. I think his policies were right policies and will be borne out ultimately, not every "t" crossed and "i" dotted but basic line of policy
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; public opinion of LBJ in Minnesota; Humphrey's personality and popularity in Minnesota; public opinion of the war in Vietnam and how LBJ was handling it; Keith's view of the Vietnam War; Minnesota politics in 1966; Humphrey's 1968 presidential campaign
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Averell Harriman. Averell I'd known forever. He was then on a European tour on Vietnam. If he hadn't come, under the circumstances, it would have looked bad, because he was going to a lot of other places. And at that stage in life, Nasser was waiting
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Vietnam days. But we just went along. Of course, the first speeches, the first legislation, all of them put it in terms of the Office of the President. G: In retrospect, do you think it should have been a cabinet-level department? B: No. No. I
Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Wirtz' relationship with LBJ was stormy, also. H: Very stormy, yes. Very stormy. The campaign days were fierce. Well, Wirtz was against Vietnam and against the escalation that was going on. We rational ized it within the Labor Department
Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for statesmanship at the state level; they can afford to not help each other without things going bad. But when you get to working at the level of having to do with our negotiations in Vietnam or the impact of our monetary and fiscal policies and interest rates
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • spending in the domestic area would continue very significantly at the time the number of Model Cities were increased. Remember, we were dealing then in the spring of 1966, when they were acting on the 1967 budget. The full impact of what Vietnam did
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a general statement supporting, from a legal point of view, the Administration's actions in Vietnam; and I understand that got to him, but that's all sort of this peripheral stuff. B: I have one question in this area. You may not be in any position
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of participants from here, haven't you? L: Yes, that's right. or ten killed. I think this town's had- -I don't know- - eight Maybe more than that. Killed in Vietnam out of a little town of 18 or 20,000--that's a good many losses. F· But that doesn't make
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • room. So I turned on the set--while I was working on this brief--to this press conference and the President announced sending fifty thousand more boys to Vietnam, Abe Fortas' name to the Supreme Court, and John Chancellor to direct the USIA. In about
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • ; changes in Post Office in the last 35 years; Equal Opportunity Employment Act; Vietnam War veterans; LBJ Ranch visit; Dr. Frantz's additional notes
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • instance. You've got this letter, which is on display, from Bobby Kennedy written to Lyndon Johnson, I guess late in 1965, in which he commends him for how well he handled the Vietnam situation. violently against him. Yet later Bobby Kennedy turned I
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had just gotten back from Vietnam. One of the things that had impressed him most, I remember this very vividly now, is the tremendous work that was being done in terms of hospitalization and the construction of medical facilities, and the work
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Vietnam and he took an active interest in O'Brien Associates part-time and became president, while he was finishing law school. Despite what I was saying to clients about Ira, Ira came with me. (Laughter) Ira said, "You can't leave me behind." He
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that Johnson liked Goodwin very much, and I think that Goodwin essen:ially left because a: the Vietnam war. pressure to get him to stay. Johnson 1.Jro1ight a lo: of Johnson hates Goodwin n:ow probably, b·.it he did do his best to get him to stay
  • ./Vietnam policy; Adlai Stevenson.
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • ; urban problems; relationship with LBJ; 1963-1965 legislation; appointment as Federal judge; effect of Vietnam on domestic policies; participation in 1964 campaign; changes in administrative procedure at HEW; difficulties encountered as first member
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , or at least to his staff . Do you have any recollection of that? C: No, I don't remember that at all . G: How do you think this leg of the trip affected his views on Vietnam? C: It's interesting . As I remember, and I don't know whether the records
Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • Simbel; Cyprus issue; CENTO; Eisenhower Doctrine; Vietnam; India-Pakistan War; LBJ's speech for advice on foreign policy matters and his diplomatic performances; Richard Rovere; John Leocacos; The Establishment; personal and private papers
Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • still was . F: B: What did you do as deputy director? We were, I probably should say "I", but I think the Governor shared in it-­ you know, the country was up to its armpits in problems with Vietnam and we hadn't anticipated the off-loading problems
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • Baker; Bay of Pigs; Cuban Missile Crisis; Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; Vietnam War; Clark Clifford; Paul Nitze; Dick Helms; DeGaulle; Phil Farley; Henry Kuss; morale problems; Wriston Report; McGeorge Bundy; Christian Herter; Walt Rostow; Dean Rusk; McCarthyism; Yalta; Andrei Gomyko; Kosygin
Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 3 (III), 3/9/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • could take place on November 6. Now, one may say that this was a ploy on their part because they were by that time convinced that the South Vietnames would not come to the table. I am not at all convinced that that is a correct interpretation. I think
  • Vietnam; Tonkin Gulf; Pleiku; bombing program; peace negotiations
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • --was not really the major concern. You have to remember that we all believed--I say we all, at least McNamara and I believed, and I happen to believe to this day, that there's plenty of money in this country. There's plenty of money to wage the war in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , getting involved with the military bases as Vietnam developed also. That was another one of the committee assignments, the creation of that presidential--I may be in error--sort of a bipartisan group to take a look at the consequences of marijuana smoking
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and diminished somewhat by the divergent points of view that President Johnson and Senator McGovern had on the Vietnam War. So I think had that not been an issue that the commitment of the Johnson administration would have been greater. I am not so sure who
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in. And in the course of that he had made quite a point that, despite all of the distractions and concerns of the Vietnam War, Lyndon was very, very focused on health, particularly health care problems, and that his one strong regret lay in the field of cancer research