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Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

/show/loh/oh (Interruption) G: You hinted at a rather interesting point earlier. If I read you right, you said that the question of press relations was in some ways a reflection of what can be called a generation gap back in the states. Z: Well, I

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, Bill Manchester wrote in his book--he got carried away and wrote that it was a Bible that Kennedy often read at night while he was making trips. He would read this Bible at night before he would turn out his lights, Manchester said. I later tracked

Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, because that was about when the really strong dissent was beginning here in this country and was getting in the papers. The troops were reading this. They were hearing about it back home; and they were just wondering how much support they had back here

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

There's nothing as confusing as to try to unravel a descrip- tion of a night action at sea. There you can see things in-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

by the estimates section, a group of singularly incompetent lieutenant colonels. After I read the briefing I called them all in, and I said, "You're all fired. Out." I real- ized either I was going to have to do it myself or I was going to have to get some

Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

around the fact that there was misreporting by CIA or the armed services, intelligence services, whichever was doing it. Now, in your position, which I think is a rather unique position, reading the enemy documents and so forth, did you ever have any

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the things I found out when I got out there is that as usual, nobody had read any of the stuff that the Vietnamese were putting out themselves on what they wanted to achieve with the strategic hamlet program. Well, one of the things they had

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

running infrared missions at night, indicating great usage of these particular roads. also being used. Certain nighttime photography was But all of it sort of fitted together into a mosaic. This movement, as I recall, was what convinced myself

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of that in Saigon, but nevertheless, as a practical matter it wasn't a matter of affecting our operations out there beyond that confirmation that U.S. public support was collapsing. G: Did the Vietnamese read it that way? Z: Oh, I think they were very concerned

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of an overview or summary- 0: November 20, 1966? G: On Yes . reading these I feel you made some rather uncannily accurate--I won't say predictions but something along that now, how do you feel line . Looking back about some of the things that you

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

ceiling 549,500. Then, I flew out to Clark .L\ir Force Base in the Phi 11 i ppi nes on the bJenty;;.fourth of f\1a rch, and I met with General Westmoreland and discussed this whole thing with him most of one night. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to say, "vJell, now, I called" so and so, and so and so, and so and so last night. These would be people all around the country. [He was] just taking their pulse, you see, to find out what their reaction was to this situation or that situation. He

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the people he checked it out with didn't know any more about it than he did, and they all read it, and they all arrived at the same conclusion. ''Well, it's okay." F: I know that the State Department and the White House go to great lengths to see

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in early 1965 but neither side really knew it? D: Well, I don't know. He may have said that. The ironic thing is that in Stanley Karnow's book [Vietnam: A History?], which I'm sure you've read, a fellow named Bui Tin came into--and incidentally, he's

Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of their own choice and rule themselves as they please to do, without any interference from outside sources, including the United States. That hasn't yet been achieved, but I believe it is still the present administration's policy, from what I read. haven't

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

thing about the Vietnamese communists is that if there is an easy way to get up a mountain and a hard way, they'll always go the hard way and they always expect to go twice as fast as anybody else. hopes and expectations are enormous. Their We read

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to Washington each day. In a certain sense of the word, they were messages to the President--not that he read them all, nor should he read them all. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 A: Oh, he got very, very, very angry with me. M: With you? A: Oh, furious! M: You couldn't have· supported him more closely, just from reading your Absolutely furious

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in Mexico at the time and looking at this election campaign very much from a distance. I did, however, receive a letter from him while I was still in Mexico saying he had read The Uncertain LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY