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Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

are friends of mine. G: You also conferred with him on occasions when he had Vietnam very much on his mind. L: Oh, yes. Do you recall his--? But my attitude about Vietnam was that I didn't have the essential facts in hand and that he did, he had access
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facilities bill; Lasker’s and Mrs. Johnson’s involvement with beautification; Highway Beautification Bill; the East-West Center in Hawaii; John J. Roone; Lasker’s support of LBJ on Vietnam; John Gardner; getting funding for medical research; George Mahon

Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

then it has been enlarged to take in the veterans of Korea add now Vietnam. P: Before we begin discussing this area, I'd like to establish on what occasions that you have met Lyndon Johnson. Do you recall when you first met him and what your impressions

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to go over and have a casual luncheon with him. I was over there after the Vietnam thing. with General [Bruce] Clark. I went over to Vietnam And Ted Connell, who sort of acted as a self-appointed sergeant major to Johnson all the time, in any event
in Vietnam; the 1968 convention in Chicago.

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of personalities and of budget problems seem to interfere. In other words, the average President, no matter who he is, loses strength as the term goes along. Of course, the Vietnam War caused a focal point for many of these persons who were disappointed
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[For interview 2 and 3] 1960 election and campaign; JFK administration; LBJ administration’s domestic and foreign policies and programs; Vietnam; postal service; powerful figures in Congress; reasons for LBJ’s decline in popularity.

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

be good or bad, you know. He could, I think, demand loyalty and continuing adherence to a particular course of action when the right thing to do would be to say, "I no longer believe in it." I'm not talking about Vietnam, incidentally. talking
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candidates; Fortas confirmation hearings; LBJ and RFK Commission on Vietnam; speech writing; legal work for President; Trans-Pacific Route Case

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

there was ever warmth there. Then Secretary Wirtz made some statements on Vietnam at the time of the convention LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

over Vietnam and our policy. Did the Senator give you any problem on confirmation? W: No, I didn't have any. Being such a good friend of our own Senator Phil Hart, it was more or less an easy trot, and so we had no problems at all. of friendship

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of paring down but not sufficient to get it below that so-called magic figure. G: Yes. You had a tax increase that passed, I guess to help pay for the Vietnam War and perhaps ward off inflation. O: Actually, there was an emerging indication of inflation
Russell Long's support for LBJ's programs and how Long compared to Harry Byrd, Sr., as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; tax increases to help pay for the Vietnam War; Winston Prouty's and Vance Hartke's proposed amendments to change Social

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't know what war it was, but there were battlefield scenes and that didn't seem very appropriate to discuss the possibility of peace in Vietnam. So I went to see various other suites in the Waldorf Tower that might be available. I was amazed at how
where Laitin kept the press waiting until midnight for information that never materialized; the trip to the Honolulu Conference; Moyers’ opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam; Walt Rostow; advancing a trip to Korea and plans to have LBJ visit

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

opposition to Vietnam figure into his service on the commission? DG: I saw nothing of that sort. That is to say, on Vietnam, Morse was one of the focal points of opposition to the President in the Congress on Vietnam. Outspoken, acerbic, difficult

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, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 2 (II), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

by the Commodity Credit Corporation to Yugoslavia. The Findley Amendment said that no nation which had provided aid to North Vietnam or was the nation of registry of ships carrying aid to North Vietnam should be the recipient of our aid under PL 480. The question
and agencies; resolving conflict between government departments and agencies; Congressman Paul Findley's amendment to Public Law 480 regarding US aid to nations that had provided aid to North Vietnam; OLC's work to help the attorney general and the White House

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with Vietnam; and, of course, you had Gene McCarthy coming forward and then your brother and then Johnson's withdrawal and so on, and then the campaign. I didn't know whether there were other things that we ought to take up or not on that. K: I think

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XIII -- 16 we've got to roll the price back." G: Were there appeals to patriotism, too, in the Vietnam--? C

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to be an expansion of the war in Vietnam, what Congress was going to do on the budget, whether people would be ignoring the guidelines. He talked about the fact that there's ten billion dollars more LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

leak stuff to him on Vietnam. A lot of people used him, and he was very well connected on the Hill. I think these stories undoubtedly came either from Magnuson or from other people on the Hill. You'll have to find out from others whether

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with Ambassador Lodge, when I spent a couple of days with him in Vietnam--South Vietnam. I would like, if I could, [to} have included in the official record my note of apology to him for telling a story without checking l~thout with him, and his response to me

Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

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in Vietnam; work on HHH campaign; impressions of LBJ; guns and butter; LBJ’s record; Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Jose Joaquin Trejos, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

now. In the United States, there is a tendency to blame this on the preoccupation with Vietnam. Do you think that the violence in Costa Rica has anything to do with Vietnam or do you think it's just part of a general student movement at this time

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

cetera, in housing. S: Given this kind of pressure, then you feel that Johnson really was the right man at the right time. H: I don't think there's any doubt about it. I think we would have gone even farther. If Vietnam had not intervened, Now
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of Luxembourg on Vietnam; appointment to Commission on Violence; RFK; divisions within Democratic Party; money withdrawn from social programs to fight in Vietnam; reports of Commission on Violence.

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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Biographical information; 1960 “rump session;” Henry Cabot Lodge; campaign trips; Democratic ticket; Catholic issue; McCarthy censure; Watkins Committee; Vice Presidency; assassination; Connally-Yarborough feud; Dallas; funeral; Vietnam; press

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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to be a congressman; Judd's knowledge of LBJ as a fellow congressman; LBJ's opinion of JFK and reason for agreeing to run for vice president in 1960; Judd's views on Vietnam and his suggestions to LBJ regarding Vietnam; mistakes Judd and the United States made

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

." But he stood his ground. G: How did our allies in South Vietnam respond to the March 31 speech? They didn't have any advance warning of it, did they? K: No, and I'm not--I don't have any knowledge to bring to bear on that. I know that I knew a lot

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Levinson -- IV -- 11 June when we began to prepare this message of 1967, with a section on Vietnam and how this is necessary to support the military operations in Vietnam, on how this was decidedly to be an anti-inflationary

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

voices in there, somebody that at least knew who the state chairmen were; that he had to do something about Vietnam, I didn't know what, but he had to start pulling out somehow. I've never known what happened to that memo. I don't think it's in your files

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 15 a result, while I was in New Delhi there was almost no public reaction to Vietnam in India at all . Mrs . Gandhi said things that nobody in our government

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for Vietnam . I'm sure they appreciate that we understand what their problems are, and we've fought their battles just tooth and toenail . M: And those are the reasons why they're happy . Does the advent of the Coast Guard taking over ice-breaking
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of the Department of Transportation; Urban Mass Transit; Maritime Administration; National Transportation Safety Board; appointment as Secretary and confirmation; reflections on LBJ; domestic legislative achievements; international relations; effects of Vietnam War

Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

such a terrible burden, with really just people harassing him and wanting to see him and wanting to do this, and he had to give this person a little time and give that person a little time. And just the tremendous problems he has, not the Vietnams--of course
admiration for Dwight Eisenhower; LBJ's interest in space; Jim Webb; Jacobsen's opinion of Eric Goldman; LBJ's failure to get the appreciation or cooperation of people in the arts; the 1965 White House Festival of the Arts; Vietnam in 1965; LBJ's view

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, in the President's mind to drama tize what was happening in Asia and the relationship of what we were doing in Vietnam to it . I never knew whether it [a trip] could have done that better at some other time, but it seemed to me it [the idea at the time] had
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Detailed account of U.S. participation in Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on this bill? C: By this time his concerns and his time had shifted so far toward Vietnam that his 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the Republic of Vietnam] or U.S. soldiers, they were to be planted as booby traps. And one of the big things, as I'm sure I've said to you before, and now I can't remember whether I did or not--one of the big things about the Vietnam War that differentiates
Adams' involvement in General William Westmoreland's libel suit against CBS following the airing of The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception; joint chiefs' awareness of order-of-battle inaccuracies; North Vietnamese use of mines and booby traps

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, that this was a meeting of people like Rusk and Acheson and others who were attending--and obviously on Vietnam. And he said he was sorry, after he had been there for about three-quarters of an hour, that he had to go back to this meeting upstairs. M: But your meeting
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; Samuelson Task Force; dinner for all Task Force chairmen; HHH; Vietnam; JFK assassination; LBJ kept informed on economic matters as VP; Arthur Okun; Gardner Ackley

Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, who was to retire in October 1965. Dr. Anderson had been seeing President Johnson for his dermatological complaints. With my arrival in the area in September 1965, the war was heating up in Vietnam, marines were going ashore in large numbers

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Kennedy was assassinated. G: It shows a sense of timing. Was there an effort during this period, though, to keep the civil rights groups on board as much as possible, to keep them, for example, from getting involved in the Vietnam issue as Martin Luther

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 15 [Wayne] Morse, regarding Vietnam. I remember his saying that he just couldn't understand how, if he had the same advisors and the same State Department as John Kennedy did, it was that he was so
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Biographical information; meeting with LBJ; IRS budget; contacts with LBJ; LBJ’s appointment to Tax Court; Justice Department personnel; differences in administrations; Vietnam policy effect on tax policies; prosecution of tax cases; Bobby Baker

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

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; 1965 Voting Rights Act; Democratic party politics; THIS U.S.A.; Vietnam elections; Election Research Center; HHH; assessment of LBJ; polling industry.

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

talked about the Vietnam situation; his wish to bring it to an end; his feeling that if he were in a political campaign his options would be limited in trying to get peace talks going. Secondly, he talked about the internal crisis and his--he didn't

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

it up. I think also this was around Thanksgiving time, which gave it some special relevance in the press. Another category of letters for release would be the Vietnam mail. Some of these cases actually came to our attention through the news media. I

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

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