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Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

this. It is unfortunate that in the last few months with all the disaffection about Vietnam, that some of the credit really due Johnson tends to be forgotten. M: What especially about his contributions to higher education stand out in your mind? W: Well, I don't

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Bill Moyers’ departure from the staff; letter from Bill Moyers; source of press leaks; memorandum to the President; LBJ’s reaction; impatience with the situation; conduit between LBJ and outstanding critics in the Congress; visit to Vietnam; conduit

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the time came when Bobby was absolutely exercised about Vietnam and considered, as you know, doing something about it in terms of seeking the presidency. G: But in 1964, aside from the friction with regard to the assassination and this inevitable problem

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

but I don't recall the specifics of it, and I'm not at all sure that I had any great involvement in it. G: Robert Lowell sent a telegram declining to come out of protest to Vietnam, and-- O: Yes. Well-- G: Do you think these initiatives reflected

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

And it had th.e unfortunate problem of being absorbed in a competition with the Vietnam War. G: If you had had it to do over in hindsight in terms of setting up OEO, would you have done it differently, say, in making it a cabinet department or anything like

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to Vietnam. C: Yes, I found that to be a strange paradox, and I think his position in the earlier years was a better one than his position in the later years. S: You mean that you believe that the criticism applies in both cases? LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think the realities of war made a very, very deep impression on him, and I think that a recollection of those realities undoubtedly played a part in his initial opposition to going into Vietnam. That's one of the reasons why I'm sure that a tremendous

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in this world that Chairman Mao would have seen him during the Indochina crisis, or the Vietnam crisis, that he would have flown anywhere in the world, he would have got down and licked his feet, because there was a practical problem at that particular time

Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

that they were matters that were above and beyond anything that's going on in Vietnam at the present time . M: Now, in your job here, you apparently have dealt with a variety of problems . Apparently this office cuts across the whole executive branch; you deal

Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

First impressions of LBJ; LBJ as a Senator; Civil Rights Bill; White’s special access to LBJ; LBJ’s humor; White’s books; LBJ as VP; criticism of LBJ’s domestic programs and Vietnam War.

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to worrying about something, and maybe missed it. Hell, I didn't know what he was talking about half the time. G: Did he talk to you about Vietnam, for example? W: Yes, he did. And my advice and my theory was, and everybody else's was, drop a damn bomb

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

knew he had to do something. He inherited the Vietnam War and all the people who knew him thought that he ought to just drop a bomb on Hanoi and get the damn thing over with. He was talking to me about it, and I said, "Hell, I think that's what you

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that the Vietnam issue was less significant than any of us expected it to be, at least on the surface. And there were other better, stronger reasons for the position that these countries were taking. Their basic position had nothing to do, really, with the present

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

to overcome poverty in the U.S.; impressions of Sargent Shriver and Shriver’s work with OEO; LBJ’s attitude toward OEO; how Vietnam affected all programs; the role of loyalty to LBJ in getting confirmation; overview of Perrin’s work with OEO.

Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the country's highest military officer. He went on to say that he's back in Vietnam again and that he, President Johnson, was praying for his safe return, because he thought it would be a real feather in the caps of the enemy if they could pick him off while

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

their price back. There had been, incidentally, some conversations within the government and there were conversations with the major copper companies relating to--the arguments were they shouldn't be taking advantage of the situation in Vietnam, the increased

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, but on matters of national defense, particularl y in Vietnam, Senator Tower supported the President. well. with They really got along pretty Senator Tower was invited on occasion to go back to Texas Pr~sident Johnson on Air Force One. The relationshi p

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

assassination; opposition to promotion to Lieutenant General; Senator Fulbright; Tonkin Gulf attacks; Vietnam; Dominican Republic; India-Pakistan War; briefing governors; Paris peace talks; LBJ's relationship with senior military people

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, 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, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, you will remember, Vietnam was coining into the fore and President Johnson was not getting too good a receptivity in the United States. Neither is President [Richard] Nixon at this moment--a very similar situation at this very moment. The feeling

Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

transpired. But he did regard this man--now I'm aware that they had some words about the Vietnam War and some differences. I Johnson did not go to his funeral, I'm aware of that. did not know that incidentally until I read Cliff and Virginia Durr's

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

purposes, educational, and park and recreation. There was the reluc- tance, at least on the surface, on Gonzalez ' part to see it released when we were still heavily engaged in military operations in Vietnam and there was the possibility that it might

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, or as a non-candidate who had withdrawn from the contention. It seemed to me that in at least three situations--involving the search for peace in Vietnam, involving the problem of the urban unrest in the ghettos, and in dealing with the very difficult

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

differences. There were times when I thought that his timing on Vietnam and some other things may have been just a little different than mine. An~lay, it was out of that relationship, which I thank Bob Kennedy for establishing, that I was later offered

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and shouted all kinds of insults and primarily on account of the Vietnam situation, and they qot away with it. Well, they didn't know that I wasn't there, that I was in the United States. it again. But then when I returned, a week later they tried