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Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • talking to his command. He's talking to the South Vietnamese people. He's talking to Hanoi, to Communist nations, to Allies, to neutrals. Finally, he's talking to the U.S. There are conflicting interests, certainly, and what is appropriate for one audience
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , got there a little ahead of the presidential p~ane, as did Vice President Johnson. So we saw Kennedy and Jackie get off of Air Force One; Johnson and Connally and, I guess, Yarborough were there in line--the people who greeted them as they LBJ
  • had to LBJ; 1964 campaign; LBJ’s inability to announce travel plans in advance; LBJ choosing a running mate; LBJ lying to the press; comparison of LBJ’s press secretaries; the Walter Jenkins incident; off-the-record interviews; naming Nicholas
Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • level and enmesh villagers and people in rural areas in this struggle against the GVN. required was a counterorganizational effort. What was You had to counter the workers liberation association with the trade union; you had to counter the farmers
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • participated in any other oral history project. T: Yes, I participated in the recordings for the benefit of the Kennedy Library covering essentially the period of time during which I was associated with President Kennedy. As you have indicated, that was from
  • [For interviews 1a and 1b] Biographical information; first association with LBJ; foreign policy problems of the 1960s; investigation of the Bay of Pigs; military representative to President; contacts with LBJ; role of Joint Chiefs; relationship
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that coverage by a group of younger reporters, good journalists, but young mavericks, rebels, young Turks, whatever label you want to put on them. David Halberstam of the New York Times, Malcolm Browne of the Associated Press, Neil Sheehan of UPI, Nick Turner
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the idea of a partial bombing halt as an effort to get negotiations started. I know that other people have advanced the idea that they were the heroes who thought of this. anybody who wants to have the credit for it. I'll let I did not suggest
Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Johnson at that pOint? McC: Oh, he was a great host. went all over the Ranch. dozen more times. He was very keen. We went out and Since then, I've been over it half a It improves all the time. able association during that time. We had a very enjoy
  • Meeting LBJ; McConnell’s appointment as vice chief, and then chief, of staff of Air Force; Joint Chiefs of Staff budget conferences with LBJ; making recommendations to the President through JCS; National Security Council and Tuesday Luncheons; U.S
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • --and that, in fact, the Paks were interested in aid from us for only one reason: to advance Pak interests vis-a-vis India. M: Which was not in our interest. K: Which was not to our interest, even though many people were quite sympathetic with the Pakistani
  • ; the reputation of the National Security Council; being promoted to Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs; Francis Bator; filling in after McGeorge Bundy left his position in February/March of 1966; why McGeorge Bundy left his position as Special
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • just get enough money and enough buildings and enough people. To some extent, it's probably true. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , police forces, and so we wanted to have a concept that people could understand, and different kinds of forces would be associated with different kind of functions. And search and destroy meant searching for and destroying main-force VC and later NVA units
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of confidence in the Vietnamese people. I think a lot of their potential. I think they've got great potential, and given an opportunity they're going to show the world that they can be a strong nation--a viable nation, and a wealthy nation, because they've got
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • correct. M: Before we go into your association with Lyndon Johnson, 1 would like to ask if you have participated in any other oral history project? W: I participated in an oral history project that was conducted after the assassination of President
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and required pre-audit up at the national level before a province chief could do anything. You couldn't go out and buy a load of charcoal without getting bids from three people, sending it to Saigon, and getting it approved before you made the award. G
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , there was no disagreement at all up until I would say about June 1967 as to who to count. The MACV command, then under the command, as far as intelligence went, of Major General Joseph McChristian, counted the people live just talked about. And there was no serious
  • Adams' work for the CIA in Vietnam in 1965; identifying the enemy in Vietnam; self-defense and secret self-defense militiamen in Vietnam; Adams' involvement in Special National Intelligence Estimate 14.3-67: altered statistics reporting troop
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that there was some unusual activity going on at this time, but to the best of my knowledge we never put any number on it. We didn't say twenty thousand, twenty-five thousand. G: What kind of activity was this, what form? D: Actually it was people, divisions moving
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • statements--one made in 1961 to Congress--where he points out that "the hopes of the people of the emerging nations are going to be resolved in Asia, and, for that reason, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • [For interviews 1a and 1b] Biographical information; first association with LBJ; foreign policy problems of the 1960s; investigation of the Bay of Pigs; military representative to President; contacts with LBJ; role of Joint Chiefs; relationship
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • about a meeting of that kind. M: Did all of this correspond with another--in time, that is--with another trouble which seemed to occupy a lot of time in the White House of suspicion that Johnson apparently had of people who had been associated
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • across? Not from Washington, certainly . the press, From Washington and from reading talking to officials here, there was no sense of some impending big turn in the war . Once I got to Saigon and began talking to people, a few of the people
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • operate, and it's through these sources that one can develop countermeasures. G: I understand. I believe Secretary [Robert] McNamara testified later before one of the Senate committees that he regarded this as a routine patrol. Some people think
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that Admiral McDonald was reaching the end of his four year period, and Mr. Johnson naturally would turn to the Secretary of Defense, who in turn would request advice from the Secretary of the Navy and other people in Washington, and so I am sure that I
  • Harbor after Nixon became President effects of Tet offensive as a public relations defeat; LBJ’s harassment by both the media and Kennedy people in the administration; further results of military restraints from Washington.
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Vietnam, it seemed unwise to get into any debate publicly on the subject of policy toward China. In 1967 I was asked to speak at the National War College in a classified talk on the subject of policy toward Communist China, and did address the problems