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- 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.
- there and the Ambassador
had called me and said,
tough one.
F:
"I'm hiding under my desk" I think it was a
Well, we'll have to wait and see how history judges it.
Then you made a famous, noteworthy speech in '67--a so-called hawk to dove
speech on Vietnam.
Did you get
- , 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
- 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