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Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and that we hoped he would fulfill these commitments promptly. The issues in that off-year election became the economy and law and order. G: Going back to the speed of withdrawal from Vietnam, there you did have a difference of opinion within the Democratic
  • ; ABC's one-time special on Cambodia; the timeline for withdrawal from Vietnam under Nixon; the Democratic Policy Council; Jim Hagerty's offers to allow Democrats equal time on television; an informal Democratic group led by Averell Harriman, which
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh O'Brien -- Interview XXXI -- 2 the head of the company, Charles H. Dyson, and gave background on him. Incidentally, Charlie Dyson was a close friend, as his son and my son had served together in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • conflict with their operational needs with veterans coming back from Vietnam, and those were arranged so that there would be no conflict. This brings up another kind of executive lawmaking, which is the departmental regulation. The reason that the southern
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was astonished when the damn thing came up. I was off in the field somewhere, and I came back, and Shriver says, "The President, with the Vietnam War financing and all the rest of it, has suddenly picked up on the savings bond deduction program." We were located
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the only cause of social unrest. In a single year, 1968, there were also numerous demonstrations against the Vietnam War, riots in most large American cities after the assassination of 22 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • besides his heart? H: Well, the thing that--he's bone tired because he was in the midst of the terrible, terrible conflict of Vietnam, and difficulties of bringing that to a head. As John Connally said, which I think is the nicest way of saying it, he
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Eisenhower was interested in assisting the French, was LBJ reluctant to conmit forces to Vietnam? J: Yes, I think so. G: Why do you say that? J: Because I think his position was that it was a problem of the French and if the United Nations would get
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • is a poor servant. I guess it was no surprise then. I guess it is just now I am surprised, as I look back on it. M: Because it was only in the presidency and the divisive issue of Vietnam, I think. J: Yes. And there was really a time when we went to his
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Abe Fortas; deterioration of Democratic Party machinery; John Bailey; prior knowledge of 3/31 announcement; Homer Thornberry; 1968 Democratic Convention; relationship with President eroded in 1968 over Vietnam; McNamara’s move to the World Bank.
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Relationship with LBJ, who was a frequent visitor to Davis' church; service on the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity; the LBJ-Nixon transition period; Vietnam
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Vietnam; Farmer’s resignation; Literacy Plan; Adam C. Powell; Farmer’s proposal regarding literacy; White House Conference on Civil Rights; assassination of MLK; liberal party ticket candidate; Farmer blasted Shriver in 1966 at CORE convention; Robert
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, 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, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • use of telephone; nature of LBJ’s mind; capacity to remember; LBJ’s energy; talking to relax; sense of humor and temper; LBJ as a decision maker; effect of the Vietnam War on domestic policy; relationship to communication media; virtues as a chief
Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of support of Vietnam, or a problem of an icebreaker not being allowed by the Russians to go somewhere. M: Well, now, what about this urban mass transit situation? 0: This is again a long story. Most of us who worked on the DOT act felt that the urban
Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the limitations on the funding and finally the pressures that were brought to bear for funding in other areas, other social areas and military areas and so on. N: In your lobbying activity was the argument thrown up to you that, "He need this money for Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to take. LBJ insisted it was Rusk who said first to stop the Vietnam bombing. I think I've never seen Johnson more moved or really a more lovely, gentler send-off than the two nights before Johnson left town at the party for Dean Rusk. Johnson gave
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the economy, is to get this kind of construction underway. And then the adverse condition comes when we're in a Korean war or in a Vietnam situation or the balance of payments situation,where they say, up?" "Can't you slow down? Can't you hold
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • some difference of opinion since over the Vietnam War between Senator Mansfield and President Johnson. differences in those days? Did they have any LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and it turned out that our conventional forces were then, seemingly at least, inadequate to handle the kind of brushfire wars that were then anticipated to occur. Vietnam indicates that they may not be adequate to this day--I don't know. F: Was there any real
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the Vietnam War really? R: Not completely. Johnson was not very happy with the Mississippi Freedom thing, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be For a minute there I felt, well, this is the day that the Vietnam War is going to be over--you know, this is what I thought. But it wasn't. Then Mrs. Johnson came in and she was talking to the President, and of course I was listening. two together, I just
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • view]; these are the things that are awfully hard to know. Of course the President was so completely absorbed in Vietnam and some of these other issues that in my own philosophy are really far greater, involving lives of people. You can't feel like
Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)