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Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • when he needed staff people from the administration to accompany him to, say, Vietnam, or to Berlin? F: Yes, he did take one of my staff people on this trip to the Dominican Republic ,for the Juan Bosch inauguration; along on that. Dick Barrett went
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, John M. Steadman, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • spirit was going on. That was, of course, way before Vietnam or any of these other things. I felt, "Wow, this is really what I came back to Washington to do," was to do these sorts of things. As I say, the thing was so free-form in those early days
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the policy with respect to the Vietnam War--calls it typically an amoral conflict and says that no one should participate in it--that's one thing. If this same man stands up, makes the same statements, asks those present to bring their draft cards up to him
Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , if it didn't do a lot of other things. But the President, in considering the budget, has to consider the needs of anti-ballistic missle systems, of the war in Vietnam, of other defense needs; has to consider the urban blight, the problems of the aged
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • stayed to see the end of that Vietnam War. something he wanted to see--the end of the War. think. G: He I certainly thank you, Colonel Reynolds. [End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview I] That was That's about it, I LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was somewhat provincial from a New England state. Of course I think Aiken made the greatest statement ever made on the Vietnam War. You've heard that. But by then they were not in the Senate. [Gordon] Allott I don't r~nember anything about. He [Johnson
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : He listened to him, yes. Very much so. And Lyndon relied upon him greatly. And that's the reason that I have been saying that if Rayburn had lived, I don't think Lyndon would have let that Vietnam War break him down, just kill him. F: You think
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Corps, cut CAP"--which was more controversial __ lIincrease Head Start"--which is very popular--"but take it out of the hide of other OEO programs. dollars to go around." There will be only so many The Vietnam War was escalating. We knew there were
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be settling the Vietnam War [rather] than miss a party like this." G: (Laughter) Well, did you have strategy meetings in the evening also to plan your--? W: Later on when Claude Wild came down from--he was the Governor's man. G: Did you hire Claude Wild
Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- I -- 23 G: Yes; Vietnam. M: I think we really made up our minds early. We just went around President and tried to get the money from the Senate and the House and that kept them off the hook, too. [There was] nothing they could do about
Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; holdover of JFK’s Cabinet; LBJ didn’t use party machinery; John Bailey; poverty program; Vietnam policy; felt LBJ captured by military; foreign policy; responsibility of Albert Thomas for NASA in Houston.
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Escalation of the Vietnam War; Gulf of Tonkin incident; inadequacies in advice given to the President; Ed Gullion episode; XYZ Affair; UN and U Thant; Bundy-Dobrynin conversation, fall of 1965; A-B Theory proposal; Glassboro; Averell Harriman
Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Well, it wasn't really--he was caught up in the Vietnam War, and money running out his ears there and there was the whole southern delegation in Congress that you had to deal with, that you went to see for money. It was a difficult thing. I guess
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • couldn't end the war in Vietnam. I think he was always talking with some of his staff and some of the visitors that came to the Ranch about what might have been, or what he could have done, or--you know, should he have been more informed about certain
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • confronting him as Johnson had--domestic and the war in Vietnam, etc .--and I think that, first of all, he figured that he had made his contribution and that maybe it would be better for the Democratic Party to nominate somebody else . M: For a man who had
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with him? Sure, I had all kinds of relations with him in those days, and he knew that he could ask me to do anything that I could do to be helpful to him. He sent me out to Vietnam. That was obviously when he was president. But, no, I think--then I got his
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • just had to move in that direction. I think both Kennedy and Johnson fifty years from now will be remembered for--of course Vietnam will be very big on the five pages devoted to them, but also will be the fact that during that period at long last we
Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; Bayard Rustin; March on Washngton; Dorchester Center; criteria for confrontation; Southerner as President; Goldwater and partisan politics; LBJ’s relationship with MLK; MLK’s stand against the Vietnam War; SCLC’s motto: “To Redeem the Soul of America
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • taken me out of the Pentagon. He told me to go get Sparks and deal with McNamara, bring Sparks over so McNamara will get annoyed with me. Then he talked to me about Vietnam, that he obviously had a little better turn in the situation over there, whatever
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • inflation, and they were hurting our boys in Vietnam. McNamara explained; he said, you know, his son was there. Bob said that the President said, "Well, you know, your country really needs you, and you're up there at some goddamn football game." He finally
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXVI -- 5 not suffering truly hard knocks from the left on the war in Vietnam. They were still exhilarated and full of adrenaline over the programs that were being passed and what
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and the Birthplace; Cox's first impressions of Lady Bird; Cox's view of Vietnam.
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on White House influence on news coverage, LBJ’s response to critical press coverage, preferential treatment to certain newsmen, LBJ’s decision on to run, 1968 convention, LBJ’s way of helping departing staff members, Vietnam, the effect of daily
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -out fight there. When he said he would stop the bombing of North Vietnam in order to prove to the country as well as to his adversaries and others that he meant business, he would take himself out of the race. said, "I have a plan. He gave up pol
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • was the reason for that difficulty? S: The general financial situation. G: Was that a part of the Vietnam cutbacks? S: I don't know to what specific factor you can attribute those cutbacks. Certainly Vietnam was a part of the picture. But the whole picture
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this was just an impression that I'm speaking of. And a part of this im- pression arises because he had a lot of other things like Vietnam, to take the great example, that obviously were eating on him much more so than they had been in '64 or '65. So his
Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , but again going back to Moynihan--he does write in this book that Vietnam made the War on Poverty untenable. From your experience in RPP&E and OEO, would you want to comment on that subject? L: In part it's certainly true. What happened was, in the fall
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • ; Estes Kefauver; Paul Douglass; Federal Reserve Board under LBJ; 1960 convention; JFK at Texarkana; assassination; Andrew Brimmer; Rayburn Building; Federal Services Finance Company; CIA involvement with foundations; 1968 election; Vietnam War; civil
Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh WILLIAMS -- I -- 10 said, "Look, do you believe in the President?" you believe in his programs?" doing in Vietnam?" "Yes." "Do "00 you believe in what he's IIYes." "~'Jell, "Yes." then what