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Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • members’ involvement in the 1968 campaign; Walker Report and the 1968 convention; Humphrey-Muskie campaign; DNC; HHH-LBJ relationship during the campaign; Vietnam; Wallace supporters; Nixon campaign; developing an agricultural policy; discussions with JFK
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • interest in passage of legislation; RFK; 1964-1965 legislative success; Congressional briefings on Vietnam; compromise on seating of the Mississippi delegation; LBJ’s political speech in New Orleans; inactivity of the DNC; media image of LBJ; assessment
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Career; White House personnel; press operation; transition difficulties; Vietnam negotiations; LBJ’s contemplation of not running for reelection in 1968.
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • very long after Lyndon had been elected that he be gan to send the men into Vietnam. Oh, I got so mad at him! I wrote him letter after letter, which he replied to. the letters. CJ·D: I must get I don't know whether I kept all those letters
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a tremendous negotiator to get done what he thought should be done. Too bad he got bogged down in the Vietnam War. G: Was it more a question of the art of the possible or did he have a philosophical range that he stayed within? S: I'm no psychologist. G
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /oh Reynolds -- II -- 6 and Ohio and the Santa Fe, and that did affect military shipments to Vietnam. R: Yes. But again, we were able to minimize the impact of that fairly promptly, as I recall it. It was a so-called selective strike of a few
Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • young lawyers who would work a while for Powell-Wirtz and then for a while up here with me. With all good wishes to you, Kitty, and your mother. Sincerely, Lyndon B. Johnson" M: That's a fine letter. P: I just regret that the Vietnam War culminated
Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the major Vietnam expenditures was beautifully handled. Inflation was. kept in tow and there were no recessions, our productivity was good, labor was happy> the \'Jage increases \'Jere moderate. l\nd that 1 s about the story of the tax cut.. (End of tape
Oral history transcript, William McChesney Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Not in the slightest. G: It was primarily the projection of Vietnam spending; is that correct? M: Right. I kept telling him we could not have guns and butter. G: When you talked to Lyndon Johnson about this projection, what did he say? Did he disagree
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on Vietnam. Bob and I were preparing congressional speeches to support the President's speech. Since we had read the speech we debated whether to stop work, go to the White House Mess and watch the speech. We decided to go to the White House Mess
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , until we were sure we had it. F: Right. Well, at that time did he lay it on the line? Was he sweet reasonableness? Was he making a plea for national unity? C: He was sweet reasonableness, national unity, our boys are in Vietnam. Remember, we had sent
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Chairman Ackley described yesterday as soaring profits and with the very difficult Vietnam situation might require additional military action, moving at this time the Bethlehem people to leave themselves open to charges of profiteering." Actually ... G
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • with the Vietnam War 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Anderson -- I -- 13 situation. Everybody uptight about this, and I honestly
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that most people probably didn't attach much importance to--it is only important in retrospect--you visited Vietnam and Cambodia, which were not on most senators' lists at that time. time. Tell me something about what you found out there at that Because
Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or something like that, and off I went. It didn't come out until about 1970 or 1971, I guess, when Prime Minister Harold Wilson of England wrote a book saying that on a specific date a peace proposal for Vietnam was handed to President Johnson, to the United
Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the thing the best I could. But we have had obviously in the last two or three years Some things that have not occurred before. There was just a little inkling of it in Korea, because this Vietnam business and Korea have at least the thing in common
Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about that." the sense that he brooked no opposition. Not that, But not the "yes" man business in There might have been exceptions that; I would have to say I don't remember. to And of course the Vietnam policy had been decided before I was ever
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • [trip]. P: --to get our allies to come in with more support for Vietnam. The President was tied up all day and into the early evening. And Marvin Watson and I had lunch together, with John. F: You had known Marvin previously? P: Yes. So
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Charles Roberts article; Clifford’s doubts; TET offensive; personal doubts about the Vietnam commitment; LBJ didn’t like to hear opposition to the Vietnam policy; 3/22 luncheon meeting with LBJ; 20th parallel memorandum; State Department meeting
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • length of time a war in which there were no prospects of victory. You know, this influenced Russel 1 1 s thinking very heavily in Vietnam. In both Korea and in Vietnam we were fighting for the status quo ante, and you can just think to yourself
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • JFK and Vietnam; events leading up to Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Congress and Vietnam; personal observations on Vietnam; bombing and bombing halts; various peace missions and conferences; letter to Ho Chi Minh; the “Wise Men;” plans for peace talks
Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : They were pretty good friends up until then, up until the Vietnam 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, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, 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, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Ireland; LBJ's vice presidential trip to Vietnam, Taiwan, and Indonesia; William F. Buckley's article stating that O'Brien had acted inappropriately while in Latin America with JFK in December 1961; O'Brien's Time cover story in September 1961; O'Brien's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that same eroding effect, what took place in the Vietnam War, for instance. So, I went back to Washington. There had always been a recess at Christmas of the Congress. It was uncertain this time. I don't remember exactly the series of decisions about when
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It's been so long ago. Incidentally, our mail moved from the segregation issue to the Vietnam matter and I--for a little while it was a relief, but it got to be an awful chore. I was a ready reservist all my life in the navy, and I wrote the basic line
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as President; Vietnam War; comparison to JFK; LBJ as a traitor to the South?; relationship between LBJ and HHH
Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • First meeting with LBJ; the "Johnson treatment;" Johnson's leadership of the Senate; Johnson's relationship with Secretary Dulles; LBJ and foreign policy; bombing of North Vietnam; Gulf of Tonkin; Dominican Republic; coolness between Fulbright
Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • VP LBJ as liaison with Senate; 1961 transition; Bayh relations with White House staff; joking and needling by President Johnson; close relationship with the Johnsons; 89th Congress; Bayh's criticism of Vietnam; summary of Johnson as President; Bayh
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • interest in passage of legislation; RFK; 1964-1965 legislative success; Congressional briefings on Vietnam; compromise on seating of the Mississippi delegation; LBJ’s political speech in New Orleans; inactivity of the DNC; media image of LBJ; assessment
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • disagreed with LBJ; the "Johnson treatment;" monthly visits with LBJ and the subjects discussed; the 1965 five-man Senate group world tour led by Senator Mansfield: Aiken, Muskie, Caleb Boggs and Inouye; comments on Vietnam; LBJ's legislative successes