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  • , here comes a lieutenant with a walky-talky from the nearby precinct. Pretty soon the house detective comes. Well, I tell you what it was: it was the year that the President was going to make a trip over to Vietnam or some place in the Pacific
  • /31 announcement; HHH’s attempt to go both ways on Vietnam; LBJ’s opinion of Nixon; transition period; Pat Moynihan; LBJ angered by some cabinet members at the end of his term; feelings about leaving the administration.
  • . At that point, you have a nation at peace. I think, relatively speaking, there wasn't any great controversy about Vietnam. You were in a good position. You had a nation that was basically prosperous, a nation which people felt had done a satisfactory job
  • , that his ideas were no longer accept­ able. And he had some rather far-out ideas, all of which, by the way, have since been proven rather sound. terms of air cavalry. He was thinking of cavalry in Well, that actually happened in Vietnam. He
  • subjects such as Vietnam. These notes were made -- to the extent that they were made -- by a member of the President's staff, such as Walt Rostow, Tom Johnson, or someone else.Those notes were not circulated to the other participants for checking before
  • on the Social Security program, which had a lot of meaning to older people . We did use considerably his statements about using the atomic bomb in Vietnam, and this kind of thing . Yes, very frankly, we sort of hoped that he might put his foot in his mouth
  • , =~ere I think it was going on. I don't think t:e, ::i'...!t: I assuoed later when we got to such things as the att:it:t::de c= a ;;a=i;Jus ::ountry on Vietnam, President Johnson probably pret':y da=i.ed ·..:ell ::ad that in mind when he
  • for getting us into Vietnam and Southeast Asia. G: Oh, really? E: Oh, yes. Because 1954 is when the advisers went in there. G: You were going to talk about the Mansfield Resolution for the CIA. E: I wanted to show how he was respected. When he would
  • ; the Senior Interdepartmental Group; the AID program; national security advisers; crisis management; Vietnam policy-making; the "nongroup;" Walt Rostow as a second secretary of state; peace feelers; Marigold; the Ashmore-Baggs trip; anatomy of leaks; the March
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -­ IV -­ missile crisis, Vietnam while he was vice president, UIF PWFSUISPX of Diem? B: No, I really don't . I know he was perturbed by the whole
  • ; description and evaluation of the Corps of Engineers and its operations; future of navigable waterways projects; the RFK funeral; the military as an instrument for social programs; Project 100,000; proportion of black soldiers in Vietnam; functions