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Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with him on certain important decision occasions, such as a meeting he held of the service Secretaries and service Chiefs prior to the decision to send United States units to Vietnam; a similar meeting in January of 1967 with respect to the decision
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; relationship with LBJ; Vietnam; basic training programs; army aviation; M-16; Tet; bombing; preparedness level; security gap; profiteering; Selective Service; minorities; reserves; social programs; civil disturbances
Telephone conversation # 11803, transcript, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 5/11/1967, 9:40AM (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • HANDLING ANTIWAR PROTESTERS AT PENTAGON; MCNAMARA'S RECENT TRIP TO NATO DEFENSE COMMITTEE MEETING; UPCOMING WH MEETING ON VIETNAM
Folder, "[July-August 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • asked for the President 1 s . views of comments on the Hill that were critical of the Thieu-Ky attitude toward the South Vietnam elections. The President said some mistakes were being made, but that we might be surprised there were not more. Even in our
  • Vietnam
Telephone conversation # 12306, transcript, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 10/21/1967, 5:43PM (Item)
  • Vietnam criticism
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • for Vietnam casualties or anybody else during a hiatus while the new area was being gotten ready. Now, that new area is still not ready, but when it is ready, it will look right. It won't look vulgar and scarred the way the 1959 expansion area looks. P
  • Vietnam
  • Hershey; reorganization/consolidation of Reserves and National Guard; training of reserve units for Vietnam; lawsuits by reservists; role of reserves; defense budgeting; ROTC; training skills; older equipment in Vietnam; desertions; Vietnam; Armed Forces
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : It was very good, yes, as far as I know. F: By the time '68 comes around, of course, Mr. Johnson has Vietnam on his Everything went fine. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that episode later? By that time, you were already, through you activities in foreign affairs, one of the well-known critics of the policy in Vietnam. Regarding your foreign affairs service and work on that committee, was there some specific episode in regard
  • Vietnam
  • LBJ's commitment to civil rights; 1967 Detroit riots; opposition to Vietnam bombing policy; reorganization of the District of Columbia
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • strain in that relationship didn't come until considerably later. I remember there were a number of issues relating to the war in Vietnam that Senator Russell felt strongly about. One I think is maybe a minor example, but I remember it's a project
  • Vietnam
  • of Senate opposition to Vietnam policy from 1968-1973; 1968 riots; damage caused by the appointment of Alexander Lawrence as federal judge; Abe Fortas nomination to be Chief Justice; Southern strategy in approving 1968 open housing bill; oral history project
Folder, "[June 26, 1968 Meeting with Equity Managers)," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • of the post-Vietnam defense outlook mentioning the $60 billion ,,,, ,.,. ....,..,.,.-.. - 2 ­ benchmark figures, but indicating he regarded it as a lower limit. (He must have had a good memo or briefing on that recently from DOD.) We had to remain first
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , by what was most calculated to keep Robert Kennedy from the presidency. I think most of the major decisions in Vietnam were made with that in mind. But the question of the campaign was really rather remote most of the time, because there was so much
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Vietnam in 1966, 1967, 1968. But he was extremely helpful and most knowledgeable and had a great deal of empathy, coming from where he did and his background, with the mayors of some of the major cities. I think essentially the mayors were looked upon
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/3/1965 (Sunday) (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • leave Nazi Germany; dinner party at the Arthur Goldberg's; protesters outside hotel on Vietnam and Dominican Republic policy; Lady Bird talks with Cardinal Spellman about LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that is the kind of activity that our nation must conduct in the national interest. So, it's the easiest explanation to say Vietnam, but the answer that I would have to give would be that, number one, we went up on the Hill at the worst time possible. First
  • Vietnam
  • Affairs Council; Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Activities; report “Beacon of Hope”; LBJ’s kindness; Budget cuts; international and national crises; Vietnam; International Education Act; appointment to U.S. Customs Court
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/12/1967 (Sunday) (Item)
  • Vietnam criticism
  • Johnsons are at Bassett House, a John D. Rockefeller III home; Johnsons to Bruton Parish Episcopal Church; anti-Vietnam sermon; LBJ, Chuck Robb & Jake Pickle play golf; Lady Bird goes for drive around Williamsburg and has tour of Carter's Grove
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/15/1966 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • Bird for dinner; LBJ discusses problems around U.S. and world; Lady Bird mentions fears about Vietnam
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 9/19/1965 (Sunday) (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • and India; Rostow talks of Taiwan and aid to Pakistan, Communist China, and Vietnam; dinner and movies; Johnsons back to White House; Lady Bird exercises; LBJ talks with Clark Clifford
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • seldon far as did h e ) ::;:3.t. , I else, T: ", effect and I, like almost everybody the view that it was just going to relate to Vietn am--and ,c, only to Vietnam. held a that speech to,} S['"~'7 ",(~ ""-'''. I rerr,(?nber that on Sat 'r-day
  • Vietnam
  • help bring an end to the war in Vietnam; LBJ’s interest in reactions; Governor Rockefeller; MLK assassination and the subsequent Washington riots; the process by which a President can get the help of federal troops; D.C. Mayor Water Washington; LBJ’s
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/8/1968 (Monday) (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • Pat Nugent leaving for Vietnam; Lady Bird to San Antonio & Corpus Christi; poverty bills up for vote; Lady Bird is interviewed by Isabel Shelton; buses to Padre Island with foreign press & Park Service staff; Lady Bird gives speech; fish fry
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/31/1967 (Monday) (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • company; tea for ladies of the Texas delegation; Lyn Nugent makes appearance; LBJ stops in to say hello; Luci leaves for New York; Johnsons visit with the Abe Fortases & Oveta Culp Hobby; Detroit riots; Lady Bird reflections on leaving White House, Vietnam
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 9/13/1967 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • ; official Lady Bird photos by Bob Knudsen; Lady Bird meets wives of Japanese Cabinet Ministers; LBJ greets women; dinner for Governors; discussion about Vietnam, riots & gun control; LBJ makes toast to the Governors
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . He apparently had unlimited time to try to solve these problems. B: Would he also talk to you about things beyond the problems of the cities, Vietnam and his other activities? A: Well, [in] one of our first visits to the White House after he came
Folder, "July 24, 1967 - 11:15 a.m. Detroit Riots - Clark, McNamara, Christopher, Fortas, Wilkins, Doar," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • care of the sniper incidents?" The President said he was "concerned about the charge that we cannot kill enough people in Vietnam, so we go out and shoot civilians in Detroit." General Throckmorton said, 11 Mr. President, we will only shoot under
Folder, "July 24, 1967 - 10 p.m. Detroit crisis - President's activities from 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • into their wea.po:cs ·-.:.mil specificaliy approved by an o!~icer. The President asked, 11 Can the Guard take c:ire of the snip~r inc:dent..> ? !! The President said he was "concerned abc~t the charge that we can.net kill enough people in Vietnam, so \Ve go out
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • [trip]. P: --to get our allies to come in with more support for Vietnam. The President was tied up all day and into the early evening. And Marvin Watson and I had lunch together, with John. F: You had known Marvin previously? P: Yes. So
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/6/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the policy with respect to the Vietnam War--calls it typically an amoral conflict and says that no one should participate in it--that's one thing. If this same man stands up, makes the same statements, asks those present to bring their draft cards up to him
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this was just an impression that I'm speaking of. And a part of this im- pression arises because he had a lot of other things like Vietnam, to take the great example, that obviously were eating on him much more so than they had been in '64 or '65. So his
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/9/1968 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Vietnam
Folder, "THE HARVEST OF AMERICAN RACISM: The Political Meaning of Violence in the Summer of 1967," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Series 7, Box 1 (Item)
  • hours club generally referred to as a b l ind pig. A party sponsored by a neighborhood civic 8 - group was in progress for two soldiers returning from Vietnam and two going away. The police raid was apparently based on faulty intelligence
Folder, "Summary Analysis: December 20, 1967," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Series 7, Box 3 (Item)
  • for manslaughter within t he same month . The first act of direct action was the stopping of deliv~ry trucks by youths tired of seeing jobs i n Negro afeas go to whites . · I n Detroit , the failure of a white newspaper to c arry news of a Negro Vietnam Veteran
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/15/1967 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Vietnam
Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 5, 11/22/63- 8/23/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA]," WHCF HU, Box 25 (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ; description and evaluation of the Corps of Engineers and its operations; future of navigable waterways projects; the RFK funeral; the military as an instrument for social programs; Project 100,000; proportion of black soldiers in Vietnam; functions