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  • yacht, which I guess is how New Englanders analyze character. anything. I didn't drive the boat into any rocks or But, more seriously, we talked about the mission and his plans, and I think it was largely just a question of being personally acceptable
  • GOLDSCHMIDT (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Goldschmidt's horne in New York City November 6, 1974 MG: Let's start from the beginning and the first time you met Lyndon Johnson. EG: Well, I met him in a very characteristic way
  • ," I'd talk about "the economic-fiscal-financial group." It got to be such an awkward handle that I one time decided that if we had the Troika, which had already been named, the least I could do was get a new handle for this group of four. So I looked
  • Troika; Quadriad; Council of Economic Advisers; administration differences; details of tax cut; trade-offs with Congress on budget cuts; Wilbur Mills; Harry Byrd; origin of tax cut; Samuelson Task Force; “new economics;” tax increases; Vietnam’s
  • was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on November 28, 1928 . I was brought up most of my life in Passaic, New Jersey ; went to public schools there and met my wife there . Then I did my undergraduate and graduate work both at Columbia in New York City
  • require a formal reappointment with each new administration? W: No, no, the appointment continues with the pleasure of the Secretary of Agriculture. B: All right. May I also as~ this is--again as I told you before the tape was on--so the future
  • there was not a strong and yet poorly articulated commitment. During the first many months of his Administration Johnson did nothing either very new or very definitive to try to reduce or indeed to increase our involvement. It was basically, from his point of view I
  • a little I believe it was three more meetings that you had with Mr. Johnson. A: Yes, I would like to. Last fall, I believe it was--must have been maybe fairly early in November--I had come to the conclusion that I really could not afford to stay in New
  • President Kennedy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] did, very candidly, was to get it a new euphonious name. Alliance for Progress. More on LBJ Library
  • INTERVIEWEE: HARRISON SALISBURY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MUu-iOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Salisbury's office, New York Times, NeVI York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by simply identifying you, sir. You're Harrison Salis- bury, and you've been with the New York Times
  • Working for the New York Times; Salisbury’s trip to the Far East in 1966; getting permission to go to Hanoi; a possible connection between Salisbury’s visit to Hanoi and the Marigold negotiations; trying to convince the Vietnamese
  • of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new board. The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera- tions of the federal government. B: Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in those
  • was sent down there the deal and it was just a possibility at that point, of three or four ministers in a closed TV studio. evolved down there, and of This was an entirely new format as it course~ they weren't on the scene and I was. Woodrow Seals
  • of the news if I'm not mistaken, was an the Buddhist monk so-- in those days . And it's sort of a puzzling story, because I gather he was a puzzling sort of a person . Is that accurate? � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • handle the news press, they would talk to the local politicians, but they actually ran the campaign . Completely innovative ; some- thing like that had never happened in American politics before . It worked tremendously . Well, we got to the convention
  • and he came And Wolf did a very fine job basically in that field and other agricultural developments, helping with the rubber and new plants and that sort of thing. But there was no [disagreement there]. They fought over other things later, because he
  • was living in Japan, Dien and I began to hear and read about this place called and so I went down there for the Chicago Daily News what turned out to be the end of to the Viet Minh Dien Bien Phu fell Accords . it . and at the time of the Geneva
  • for the President's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who has just started this new thing called the Peace Corps." had read about it. do." He said, "Do you want a job?" I said I I said, "I think I So he wrote on a piece of paper in his notebook the name "Bill
  • people who were not giving their best to the new Administration? R: It was not that they were not giving their best for the new Administration, but rather the way the Kennedy Administration had terminated. to be divided. This caused their sympathies
  • . Johnson greeted me at the door. You can imagine how pleased she must have been to have an intruder come in at that time. gracious. But she couldn't have been more And I remember she called me "Mr. Secretary." Well, I was a brand new Assistant
  • Contacts with LBJ; success of Eisenhower relationship with Congress in foreign policy; personal contact between Secretary Dulles and LBJ; AID bill; estimation of LBJ; formidable experience of talking to LBJ; Macomber never brought good news
  • to have a meal with him or to have a talk with him. F: You didn't know him particularly well though before he became President? M: No. F: Relate the circumstances surrounding your receipt of the news of the assassination of President Kennedy. Where
  • the relations were not So when--and I think I've discussed this to some extent earlier--when Ted had corne in we had talked a little about 1968. Ted and John Criswell and I had a lunch discussing the forthcoming New Hampshire primary, and Ted was suggesting
  • , and Lyndon Johnson heard about it, was in town, and personally came over to welcome me in my new job. Secondly, we had several meetings very early, just the two of us, and then with others around his responsibilities heading the President's Commission. I
  • , "I'm working very closely with him on the new civil rights bill," which Acheson--somewhat to my surprise because I hadn't been aware of any particular interest of his in this--he evidenced an interest also. And he said when he came back that Senator
  • , then I got there about the tenth of December. I got there about two weeks after the assassination. G: Okay. F: When I got back to Saigon I obviously had a lot of catching up to do because I was out of touch, you might say, with the members of the new
  • that ran the paper at that time were not pro-Johnson . I had a friend who was editor, but he died and a new regime came in over there in 1939 or 1940 and they didn't like Johnson's politics very much . G: On the other hand, I guess Mr . [Charles] Marsh
  • of the Senate at the commencement of a new session of Congress to proceed with the consideration of new rules and not to be bound by the rules that had been adopted by the previous Senates in the past. This was an effort, of course, to modify Rule 22
  • Rayburn. B: You and he in those days shared interest--the New Deal in general-- H: That's right. B: Franklin Roosevelt's policies, the TVA. Did you ever get together on bills or legislation? H: The truth is by the time he got to the House, we had
  • conservative man. thought probably he was more of a moderate than Dick Kleberg. I think he supported practically all of the Roosevelt New Deal program. I supported a good deal of it. too much. Relief spending got to be inefficient and The CCC camps, a good
  • Biographical information; LBJ; heart attack; LBJ’s capacity for friendship; FDR New Deal program; support for LBJ in 1960; Sam Rayburn; lobbyist; Bobby Baker; JFK’s New Frontier program; civil rights; education; Vietnam; civilian control of military
  • that Lyndon Johnson was more satisfied with what the commission was doing. If Lyndon Johnson hadn't been satisfied with the commission, he would have moved fast to get a new staff director. The fact that he would allow it to move ahead for two years
  • , the Richmond News Leader. To the best of my knowledge, he brought my name to the attention of Aubrey ~li 11 iams. (Interruption) G: --through Aubrey Williams, you were saying. C: Frank Bane, then--in 1935--was the executive director of the American
  • that--particularly thought of serving at the UN. that I wasn't interested in the UN Not but I was doubtful if I could afford to live in New York at the United Nations, because it's a very expensive post. Probably, if I had realized how expensive I couldn't have
  • . McNamara was thinking? LG: No. Because even at the end, he told many different stories about the purpose, when the New York Times started to publish these things. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • ; staff who worked on study; study plan; lack of direction or certainty of what was expected reflections on the need for historians to do the study; role of Robert McNamara; speculation about the purpose of study; reaction to publication in the New York
  • Minh had said, something that some North Vietnamese in Paris. had said, led him to believe that there was an important new element-G: Just for the record, I think it was Mai Van Bo. M: That's right, it was Mai Van Bo, who in Paris? Yes
  • in journals . B: At that time, I was considered one of the candidates . I went back to New York--oh I think in November of 1959,--and did a very poor job . meeting in New York, they had all of the candidates . At that It was the meeting of the National
  • , in the Far Eastern Bureau? T: No. Certainly not, once I moved in with Hilsman in early summer of 1963; the Buddhist crisis with Diem had just taken place in May, as I recall. j~: Yes. T: We were moving to a new and difficult relationship in which we were
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- II -- 3 tax but certainly it was some time in the latter part of increase~ 1965. The tax increase discussion was given a new urgency in December, when
  • at Harvard. Then I got caught up in the U. S. Army during World War II and had about four years of that, including a long siege of combat in Europe. When I came back from the army, I went to the Charlotte News as editor and stayed there about a year
  • . From 1936 through 1963 you were associated with the Chattanooga Times as a reporter, then Washington correspondent, and finally editor of the News Focus service. This last period was from 1958 to 1963. In 1963 you became a columnist for the Chicago
  • days. He had worked for the old New York World and the National Farmers Union. [He was] really an interesting guy and knew a tremendous amount about Congress and the way things were done, not the textbook kind of legislative process, but the way
  • INTERVIEWEE: MARY LASKER (MRS. ALBERT D. LASKER) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Lasker's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's talk about the genesis of that commission, Mrs. Lasker. You were saying that there was a reason
  • special personal relationship with him at that time? Mundt: Yes, we served on committees together. At different times. We served on the Building Commission, for example. It built this new Senate Office Building in which we're transcribing