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Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • ; Presidential Scholars Commission; Presidential Commission on Violence; Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • ; relationship of LBJ and JFK; LBJ’s idea of his role as VP; effects of JFK assassination; consideration of dropping LBJ in 1964; LBJ’s VP selection; Vietnam War; assessments of LBJ; 3/31 announcement; LBJ’s training by professionals in public speaking and image
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • after that, when he came back on leave, and when he finally came back, he said he wouldn't have had it any other way. in the China talks. He was doing exciting things, he was involved Then, it was a new area. F: Did you work on any of the Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • until, in point of fact, I attended a meeting with him just prior to the time--when he was Vice President--that the problem arose about President Diem's administration in Vietnam, and the problem existing at the time that had been created domestically
  • Vietnam
  • ; not involved in policy making; Fulbright letter and the ruckus McCarthy made; February 1967, the National Student Association problem; Pueblo Mission; Tuesday lunches in 1967; halt of bombing in Vietnam; 3/31 speech; Six Day War; Kosygin on hot line; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , including the question of security in the Far East. I remember Rusk used to ask them, "the question is not whether you support the United States in Vietnam, the question support~the is what kind of world out there would be in your own security interest
  • Vietnam
  • ; feeling of NATO countries; European Allies and Vietnam War; McNamara’s speech regarding the ABM system; Czechoslovakia crisis; German problem; LBJ’s relationship with Kissinger; LBJ as a personal diplomat; Most-Favored Nation treatment; East-West Trade
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • calling from?" I said, "Vietnam." That was the time I did the advance for LBJ's first surprise visit to Vietnam at Cam Ranh Bay following the Manila Conference. Maybe I've started that. I'll continue that advance and then go back to Rome. This was after
Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • or a need to adjust agricultural policy within the country . THB : Have you found in the last few years that there is any distinct regional emphasis in your work? That is, has the Vietnam War, for example, caused a great deal of emphasis on Southeast Asia
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ; thousands of towns have town squares, and something constructive and visible can be done by local citizenry. We don't all have to expect to be able to solve the Vietnam War, because none of us really can just by sitting and brooding about it, she said
Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Obviously, he was, in the sense that the countryls capabilities were concentrated to so large a degree on Vietnam, but he saw a great number of official visitors from Europe. He was very intimately involved in NATO questions when they came up, even during
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the presence of the Pn,sident. Now what would happen on some of these occasions is that Lyndon Johnson would begin discussing Vietnam as the President of the United States, treating the visitors as if they were the Secretary of State, There is a minor element
  • presidential speech writing team; Jack Valenti’s relationship with LBJ; office procedures; handling mail from Vietnam.
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • increase last time, did we? F: We didn't talk about the tax increase, merely the fact that we intimated that its problem is going to come. A: Yes. Well, it certainly came all right. The acceleration of the Vietnam military activities announced
  • Vietnam
  • Monetary policy, 1966-1968; tax increase discussions; Bill Martin; relationships of CEA with Federal Reserve System, Bureau of the Budget and Treasury; Wright Patman; Arthur Burns; LBJ's understanding of macro-economics; Vietnam; War on Poverty
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was exhorting this Indian about Vietnam and towering above him, waving a hand at him . He gave that story which he subsequently used . I hadn't heard it before then--in which he with grand gestures would say that, "all he wanted was if Uncle Ho Chi would take
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; TIME & A TICKET; LBJ's remarks regarding Vietnam; LBJ's reading and general knowledge; speech writing and the staff; "cussers/doubters/nervous-nellies;" consumer interest information; speech schedule put out on Fridays
Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh A. Leon Higginbotham -- Interview I -- 4 H: Yes F: Was any of that on Vietnam? H: No. You have to recognize that I am so old that that was pre-Vietnam. The draft was on, but I don't
Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ? H: Yes, both. M: Do you remember any occasion in particular? H: I should amend an earlier statement. I just thought of it. When Secretary Gardner took this mission to Vietnam, he was kind enough to invite me, and I'm sure
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of it. We didn't necessarily have to do that. We didn't have to take Vietnam on, for example. I'm glad we didn't. But Lyndon Johnson did and he did it his way. Whether the majority agreed with him or not, that was his way so he did it his way
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • as part of that group- -I don't know what they called it-that advised hiIT1 that two or three tiIT1e s on Vietnam. M: Right, were you--let's see, the first time was it in July of '65 when the troop buildup was decided on? D: No, not that time. ever
  • Vietnam
  • of payments; LBJ's relationship with JFK's people; appointment of new Secretary; Vietnam; role of Major General William Dupey
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DUBINSKY -- I -- 16 Vietnam situation that happens, not that he was wrong; he
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thurmond -- I -- 21 capacity. I did not admire the way he handled the Vietnam War. think
  • Vietnam
  • and control over Senate voting; Mrs. Johnson; LBJ’s rapport with Mike Mansfield and Everett Dirksen; National Defense Education Bill; how LBJ dealt with Vietnam.
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • some cooling effect on city problems. G: Earlier in this interview I asked you about the impact of the Vietnam War, particularly in terms of OEO expenditures and the budget. In April of 1967 Martin Luther King in a speech--critical speech in terms
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • governors. I conferred with I went to Vietnam in 1965 with seven or eight But so far as confe·rri n9 with me specifi ca llyabout legislation and about what he should do, the advice and counsel that I offered to Lyndon Johnson \voul d be the same that I
  • Vietnam
  • 1960 Presidential campaign; supporting JFK; hunting with LBJ at the Ranch; the JFK assassination; the Civil Rights movement; Mrs. Johnson’s train trip in the South; Sanders’ political interactions with Richard Russell; Governors’ trip to Vietnam
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , if he had something of a general nature he would call me; and if he had something that affected one union, he would call the head of that union. Mu: The Vietnam War, for example, became quite an issue within labor apparently. Mr. Johnson didn't get
  • Vietnam
  • labor on Capitol Hill; LBJ’s appointments; sale of wheat to Russia; 1964 railroad strike; Labor Department; proposed merger of Labor and Commerce Departments; collective bargaining guidelines; 14-B; Vietnam War; served on JFK’s Clay Commission on Foreign
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to being one of our very great presidents until he stubbed his toe on Vietnam. made that mistake--or if events had not closed in on record would have marked him a great. If he hadn't him~ his domestic If he had been able to avoid Vietnam he would have
  • Vietnam
  • ; whether or not LBJ should’ve accepted the Vice-President position; LBJ’s signature on Great Salt Lake bill; LBJ’s efforts to become ex officio member of Senate Democratic caucus; getting Kennedy’s legislative program through Congress; Vietnam.
Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , for people and I think he always did . I think it's probably one of the tragedies of the Vietnam War, and I'm sure he must have felt that he had done a great deal for people . One thing that I was thinking of this morning is that I remember that last year
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 his public image as a result of the Vietnam War, and this has made it impossible
  • Vietnam
  • of the Department of Transportation; Urban Mass Transit; Maritime Administration; National Transportation Safety Board; appointment as Secretary and confirmation; reflections on LBJ; domestic legislative achievements; international relations; effects of Vietnam War
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Vietnam mail and things. I work with Will Sparks writing messages, mostly kind of the secondary chores of the speechwriter. Many speech writers write letters and a few of them work on messages. B: Whose payroll were you on then? c: I went back
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- VIII -- 2 settlement didn't come within the wage-price guidelines we'd be headed for a round of steel price increases, and we'd be off to the races. The build-up in Vietnam and the underlying commitment, decision, view that that shouldn't withhold any
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • might lose the war in Vietnam as a result. 15 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Abell -- II -- 15 To put this in perspective
  • Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • commitment to Vietnam; ideas on how the war should have been conducted; discussion of apparent consensus in Washington that JFK would drop LBJ from the ticket; LBJ’s fear of escalation during the war; LBJ’s decision to retain the “Kennedy crowd” after his
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • are friends of mine. G: You also conferred with him on occasions when he had Vietnam very much on his mind. L: Oh, yes. Do you recall his--? But my attitude about Vietnam was that I didn't have the essential facts in hand and that he did, he had access
  • Vietnam
  • facilities bill; Lasker’s and Mrs. Johnson’s involvement with beautification; Highway Beautification Bill; the East-West Center in Hawaii; John J. Roone; Lasker’s support of LBJ on Vietnam; John Gardner; getting funding for medical research; George Mahon
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • then it has been enlarged to take in the veterans of Korea add now Vietnam. P: Before we begin discussing this area, I'd like to establish on what occasions that you have met Lyndon Johnson. Do you recall when you first met him and what your impressions
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to go over and have a casual luncheon with him. I was over there after the Vietnam thing. with General [Bruce] Clark. I went over to Vietnam And Ted Connell, who sort of acted as a self-appointed sergeant major to Johnson all the time, in any event
  • in Vietnam; the 1968 convention in Chicago.
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of personalities and of budget problems seem to interfere. In other words, the average President, no matter who he is, loses strength as the term goes along. Of course, the Vietnam War caused a focal point for many of these persons who were disappointed
  • Vietnam
  • [For interview 2 and 3] 1960 election and campaign; JFK administration; LBJ administration’s domestic and foreign policies and programs; Vietnam; postal service; powerful figures in Congress; reasons for LBJ’s decline in popularity.
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • be good or bad, you know. He could, I think, demand loyalty and continuing adherence to a particular course of action when the right thing to do would be to say, "I no longer believe in it." I'm not talking about Vietnam, incidentally. talking
  • Vietnam
  • candidates; Fortas confirmation hearings; LBJ and RFK Commission on Vietnam; speech writing; legal work for President; Trans-Pacific Route Case
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • there was ever warmth there. Then Secretary Wirtz made some statements on Vietnam at the time of the convention LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • over Vietnam and our policy. Did the Senator give you any problem on confirmation? W: No, I didn't have any. Being such a good friend of our own Senator Phil Hart, it was more or less an easy trot, and so we had no problems at all. of friendship
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of paring down but not sufficient to get it below that so-called magic figure. G: Yes. You had a tax increase that passed, I guess to help pay for the Vietnam War and perhaps ward off inflation. O: Actually, there was an emerging indication of inflation
  • Russell Long's support for LBJ's programs and how Long compared to Harry Byrd, Sr., as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; tax increases to help pay for the Vietnam War; Winston Prouty's and Vance Hartke's proposed amendments to change Social
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't know what war it was, but there were battlefield scenes and that didn't seem very appropriate to discuss the possibility of peace in Vietnam. So I went to see various other suites in the Waldorf Tower that might be available. I was amazed at how
  • where Laitin kept the press waiting until midnight for information that never materialized; the trip to the Honolulu Conference; Moyers’ opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam; Walt Rostow; advancing a trip to Korea and plans to have LBJ visit
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • opposition to Vietnam figure into his service on the commission? DG: I saw nothing of that sort. That is to say, on Vietnam, Morse was one of the focal points of opposition to the President in the Congress on Vietnam. Outspoken, acerbic, difficult