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- . January31 The President met with Representatives of the National Association of Attorneys General in the Cabinet Room at the White House. • • • Herschel Newsom, Master of the Grange, presented a special award to the President for service to rural America
- , represents the line of argument against increasing our forces in South Vietnam, which was the basis for some of the newspaper stories. r ---- ~L/1--,_ -7.... . rl, I JS:- :- . ::;J ·- '· . ..,,,. • ·r_ ..._,..--- • ---- r J . . . . ...1
- of the others, and particularly when they would put generals in the job, as they did two or three times, the press, and particularly the American press, was very alien to them. There were many of them who regarded newspapers, particularly the Vietnamese
- to follow his activities as Senate leader with great closeness. Indeed it was when he was Senate leader that he and I became fairly close friends--insofar as a newspaper man is ever a close friend to a politician. M: Socially, as well as in the sense
- &re: recruits losses to forcing the issue is evident from of the enterprise. on Commu.i.'1istforces casualties are greatly a.YJ.dimpressed haye been offset has been conside~'"able, inflated civilians. by measures - 2 - by inclu$ion
- and '67 crisis-- F: These were not newspaper bugaboos, then? K: Not at all. The Turks were getting on the ships. intelligence as to what they were doing. didn't need any intelligence. We had good As a matter of fact, we They told us they were
- newspapers at the time--which they did constantly; they read Newsweek, Time, they read everything--would say "You know, I think we did it." And when LBJ's speech came on the thirty-first of March 1968 I bet there were people up in the cabinet room wreathed
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 2, Tabs aa-vv," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 47
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- . " The pacification program ha~ suffered a big setback. underscores the need for making it as realistic This and as effective as possible and also getting the very best men involved in it. The newspaper story reporting that." no one talks about pacification any
- rnaac"' ar.. exce!.!.cn .. p::e:se:n ..atim:. to the President and his colleagues. With no _hes~taticn at all, it v,a:.s agreed. that ,ve shoulci p:::-oceed immediately, the meeting wz.s adjo~rned,. and Ky, ·E~b Kerner and som.c of thei::- associates wcr
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- 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
- . He felt that the goals of the revolution were being sacrificed and would be lost unless he intervened and threw the rascals out, which he proceeded to do--the rascals meaning many of the senior Communist leaders who had been his associates throughout
- [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
- . 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
- not associated with organized armies normally. G: This is what you call the violence programs? P: Yes, that's right. The correct technical name is armed dau tranh. The important thing is to think of it as something broader than just guerrilla war. The first
- 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
- to the President of March 4, final drafts and associated papers; Walt Ro stow' s agenda notes for Presidential meetings; and Papers for the Advisory Group Meeting, March 25-26. VOLUME 8 contains - Clifford - ExceTpts Committee working papers; from the Weekly
- for the beginnings of a theatre reserve. The additional requirement, which he considers necessary as soon as possible, but not later than 1 September 1968, includes the ROK Light Div, the remainder of the 5th Mechanized Division and associated elements. The armored
- to associate with President Johnson on a more-or-less personal basis? W: I had occasion to see him and talk to him once in Vietnam when he carne to Cam Ranh Bay. I talked to him for a few minutes. Then midway in my tour--I think it was February '66--1
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- 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
- . And then it goes on to prescribe corrective measures, but they don't really make much sense. before. They are what they'd been saying For example, instead of, "We're going to win the war in the shortest possible time," which were the buzz words associated
- , 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
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 2, Tabs a-z," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 47
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