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- .the full-length speech entitled, "The United States Should Get Out of Vietnam." It was a full-length speech, and it was the first statement made by anybody in public life. Being an old newspaperman, I knew it was news, and I fully expected to see
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- Met LBJ as a delegate when LBJ was Senate Majority Leader; October 1963 attack on JFK for sending helicopter pilots as advisers in Vietnam; deception practiced through; Gruening the first Senator to publicly oppose the War in Vietnam; Tonkin
Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- for cooperative activities, but that wasn't basically changed. I: You mentioned in one of your books how upset the Japanese were, particularly in the early part of our Vietnam escalation in 1965. Was there adequate consultation, or any consultation
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- reaction to crucial U.S. decisions; exchanging his role as Asian scholar for that of ambassador; importance of early action to avoid later crisis; SEATO; attempts to minimize the bad Japanese-American relations; the Vietnam War and why U.S. methods didn’t
- -to-face meeting or not I'm not clear. The circumstances are this way. My recollections were refreshed by him when he was twisting my arm about taking this Vietnam assignment,* which would be about December of 1967. He recalled that he wanted, while he
- for a post-war development plan for South Vietnam; Lilienthal's skepticism on Vietnam quelled; effect of pacification programs; advising JFK on foreign aid; William Fulbright; Walt Rostow; James Rowe; HHH; RFK; Adlai Stevenson; Eleanor Roosevelt; Nguyen Cao
- became chairman of the Governors Conference and would make every statement about Vietnam that Johnson asked him to make. Ranch and so forth. And Johnson used to bring him down to the But this was the first time he'd ever met him. He LBJ Presidential
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- relationship with the press; Hugh Sidey; LBJ’s fondness for neatness and 'experts'; Peter Lisagor; Bill Moyers as press secretary; James Moyers; Merriman Smith; LBJ’s secrecy; LBJ’s first trip to Vietnam and the 1967 around the world trip; LBJ meeting wounded
- , there was beginning to be great disaffection for our Vietnam policy, not just among the liberals, but a lot of politicians were beginning to be concerned about it. Dick Daley was concerned about it, for example; I mean, he wasn't going to publicly say
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- for LBJ; comparison of the White House social life of the Kennedys and the Johnsons; Kappel Commission and reorganization of the Post Office; defection of top level appointees regarding Vietnam policy; Larry O’Brien’s opposition to Vietnam policy
- weapons used by North Hanoi and North Vietnam to prolong the war--between the time we had the first vote and the time it came back to the House and we had the last vote, the tragedy of Dallas had occurred. I remember very well Majority Leader Mansfield
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- ; wheat sales; briefing of Foreign Relations Commission; coolness between Senator Fulbright and LBJ; OAS; Panama; LBJ’s role in Vietnam; Consular Treaty; Atlantic Alliance; DeGaulle; North American Alliance; NATO; Parliamentarian Conference in Brussels
- such a splash on the Vietnam War? I heard some criticism that Hoopes wasn't at the center of the decision-making. Was there a tendency to be more authoritative in your statements when you weren't so close, as against the people who were closer and saw
- suggesting different ideas, and he came in. That was in the early part of 1965 and he was troubled by the Vietnam she talked to us. ~~ar then, so Then he got into the act, as they say, and began to talk about the problems of the big cities and the war
- very concerned about the VietNam situation, which Ild known something about because we were asked in 1950 to put a mission under the Marshall Plan into Indochina. against it. After considering it, we decided We decided at that time in which
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- to the President on international relations; Vietnam; Allende government; conservation; no strong anti-LBJ at the UN
- that will be great. F: Oh, I think the Vietnam War will recede in importance one of these days, taking the long gun-sight. C: But Lyndon was right about the Vietnam War. Two nights ago I had dinner with a fellow named Henry Taylor. Henry Taylor is a conservative
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- in regard to Vietnam; how making college more accessible hurt the military and its academies; the inability of the military to attract well-qualified candidates; Corcoran's work in the 1968 presidential campaign.
- in Vietnam. I went to Fulbright. to say that I had no problems on the Hill. F: Your confirmation was just routine. M: It was routine. It was very affable. Because we I am pleased My confirmation was just--- As a matter of fact, when I was appointed
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
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- felt should be supportive [and] wasn't, that was a personal affront. He dwelled on it. That was his nature, as he dwelled on Vietnam and personalized Vietnam to the last pilot. Did he get back safely? It was similarly the case with the legislative
- became ambassador to South Vietnam; Homer Thornberry's appointment to a judgeship; Carl Rowan as ambassador to Finland; Chester Bowles' and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.'s appointments; White House responses to opposition from civilians as opposed
- to the ESEA 25 The White House exerted power on the Democratic members of Congress 27 "Cre di bi Ii ty gap" 28 White House briefing 29 The Great Society; Vietnam War, Tonkin Resolution 32 Quie interpretation of Johnson as President LBJ Presidential
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- ; 89th Congress; Civil Rights Bill; 1964 convention; OEO; legislation; Quie amendments; Great Society; Vietnam War; LBJ as President
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- ? W: Certainly. He made all these trips to Vietnam, Pakistan and Europe and the Berlin Wall. There isn't any doubt about it. I think it lifted him clear out of his strictly state character and made a national figure out of him. It's hard
- East peace formula; the Jarring mission; the Vietnam issue in the UN; the Czechoslovakian crisis; LBJ assess the prospects for peace in Vietnam, late in his administration; Ne Win suggest suspending the bombing of North Vietnam was a mistake
- written to Chuck Percy and said that President Johnson's son-in-law, Captain Robb, had been in charge of a platoon that staged an even bigger massacre in Vietnam. I was not familiar with this story myself, but Johnson said that Percy, instead of calling
- Pucinski's political career; Pucinski's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ's support for Pucinski in a 1972 Senate race against Charles Percy; allegations of misconduct against Charles Robb in Vietnam; a trip to Chicago with Vice President Johnson
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- critical, and I did not authorize a good many taps that were requested in that area. And he was under very great pressure from Vietnam and all, and the military establishment, and from National Security Administration, the CIA, and the other agencies who
- in the team. J: Well, I was on the National Security Council at the time, as you know, on the staff in charge of Far East affairs, so I had been working on Vietnam for quite a few years, [for] three steadily and before that for a couple of years, in and out
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- Selection of the team to go to Paris to negotiate with North Vietnam; Averell Harriman; Cyrus Vance; Philip Habib; organizing the trip to Paris; failure to make serious progress in Paris; debates regarding “the shape of the table”; portraying news
- . Yesterday or day before I had a meeting with the top brass"--meaning of course the military--"and they urged and insisted if I just give them twenty-five or fifty thousand more men that it would get this Vietnam thing behind us pretty fast. And I just had
- , Humphrey-Nixon, they had a kind of ad hoc arrangement where Johnson was concerned about whether Humphrey was going to keep his feet to the fire on Vietnam, and Nixon was obviously saying we have to persevere and had his own plan and so on. But Johnson's
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- that period of time have been performed by my principal deputy, Mr. P: [Ralph] Earle [II]. Mr. Warnke, how much do you think that our commitment in Vietnam has LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
- have a sense of participating." And you get the basic puritan ethic of the American people where you've got to suffer a little when you're enjoying things, and the idea that people could be dying off in Vietnam and you're sitting at home and watching
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
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- around here and that is nobody who works for me says, publicly or privately, a single word against the General." I thought [that] was more than magnanimous because in 1965 the General had gone to Phnom Penh and stood there on the border of Vietnam
- . Now in the conduct of his office itself, I'm not qualified to say. M: Given your experience, which at least in some ways was parallel to the Vietnam conflict, did he ever ask your advice or solicit your opinions regarding that? P: He did
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- was it mainly agriculture? V: Well, agriculture and military things, as well as anything affecting the oil industry and foreign matters. War. I supported him in the Vietnam I was opposed to getting into it in the first place but I felt that it was something
- the answers, but I've just got to be the best prepared man in the room. M: You also got some publicity for supporting Johnson's Vietnam policy in 1966. B: 1965. M: This may sound like an embarrassing question. I don't mean it that way, but was there any
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- Vietnam policy; post-presidency contacts and work with LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson and LBJ State Park; Hubert Humphrey's 1968 Texas campaign; LBJ's role in politics in post-presidency period
- , because they knew they were safe, and then they'd run them down into Vietnam during the night. Of course, they had marshalling yards up there. We would like to go in there and take pictures of them. As an example, one night--my backseater and I flew thirty
- and waterways in North Vietnam; radar use for night missions; General Jim Cross; events leading up to Stavast's airplane crash and imprisonment; SAMs (Surface-to-Air Missiles) torture and interrogation; Stavast's injuries; soldiers who died in captivity
- , despite the acrimonious and very public differences that came to light on Vietnam and on the foreign policy questions. But they functioned pretty well together. F: It was, I suppose, Senator Johnson as majority leader who pl aced Mr. Fulbright
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- Bird in 1964 campaign; Pacem in Terris convocation in NY; Dominican crisis; Stevenson-Johnson relationship; second Pacem in Terris convocation in Geneva; role of Center for Study of Democratic Institutions in Vietnam conflict; mission to North Vietnam
- to Vietnam after the pull-out from Laos and he wanted somebody to go out and buck up [President Ngo DinhJ Diem. President Kennedy told me that he had a terribly tough time persuading Lyndon Johnson to make LBJ Presidential Library http
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- potential as president; bitterness between Bobby Kennedy and LBJ; Bartlett's relationship with President Johnson and his White House staff; Vietnam War; Robert Kennedy's run for presidency; impressions of Kennedy family role in Johnson's selection of Kennedy
- assignment as chief of staff, MACV [Military Assistance Command, Vietnam]? K: Yes, I knew Westy. The first time I really got to know him pretty well [was] when he came to the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. At that point in time, I
- -- Interview II -- 7 we found up in central Vietnam a vestige of a program that we had supported of Popular Youth--or Popular Force, whatever it was called--which was teams going into villages. G: Is this [Nguyen] Khanh's old program? C: Yes. We set up a new
- by the military. And in Vietnam, whatever happened was on your television screen in living color daily. So President Johnson had to contend with having to fight that kind of a war, where it was very open and you had the public seeing it every day. In any case, I
- for the success of Vietnam plans outlined in the April 7, 1965, speech at Johns Hopkins University; the 1967 trip to Australia, Thailand, Pakistan, and Italy to see the Pope; LBJ's awareness of press frustrations.
- of everything he was doing was in the War on Poverty, Appalachia, and Vietnam. Saying that every kid in America who is educable ought to be able to get an education. If he couldn't afford it, if he could be educated, the government ought to find some way
- regarding Vietnam; LBJ's efforts to keep the budget under $100 billion; LBJ's credibility gap and LBJ's claim that his grandfather fought at the Alamo; LBJ's visits to Australia; Bobby Baker; George Reedy, Bill Moyers, and George Christian as press
- answer them directly. But Vietnam, for example, was not really a major issue. Labor unions, of course, were very pro our winning the war. That's really all I remember about that day, that it was kind of a typical labor, pro audience speech. G: Was he
- parents to a state dinner; negotiating the details of Paris peace talks with the North Vietnamese; Hubert Humphrey's lack of involvement in Vietnam peace talks; leaking information to the press; LBJ's secrecy; the issue of a ten per cent federal income
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- and 1965 he was a very cautious person but he nevertheless was a hawk on Vietnam. I think he may have expected a lot more of Diem, as many people did, than would ever have been possible. What most Americans did not realize and I didn't fully realize--I
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- to come back to that night of that meeting. Well, anyway, against that background, President Johnson, I find again around the world, gets very little credit for these matters. I suppose the Vietnam thing so blackens his reputation in a way around
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- House Conference on Civil Rights; Cliff Alexander; National Science Foundation Board; Jim Webb's acceptance of Administrator of NASA; campus unrest; Vietnam; Perkins Commission; Walt Rostow's Policy Planning Commission; Wise Men; role as Vatican
- 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
- anything in Vietnam. that a lot. I know he used to talk about But all I had to do was mention it to Chiang Ching-kuo and to the old Gimo [Chiang Kai-shek], and, boy, the sky was the limit. They would have deployed their whole army down there, although
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- ; discussions on Vietnam; LBJ and Vietnam; incidents preceding and following Gulf of Tonkin incident; Robert McNamara; use of intelligence support
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- have been--if we can divert for a moment on the Canadians--they have been rather patient and long-suffering and not altogether pleased about our relationships with them in connection with Vietnam. The Ronning mission and our failure to follow up
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- Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964
- was in the Territory--the Vietnam War had heated up, and I think that I would have liked to go on to Vietnam. I wanted to at that time, but this would have meant probably another week or so of travel and, also, I was aware that there were so many people going
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- Biographical information; career; meeting with LBJ; Trust Territory; U.S. relationship with Eastern European countries; NATO; MLF; Vietnam War; Arthur Goldberg; Middle East crisis; Dean Rusk; women as diplomats; trip to VN; 1968 campaign; Johnson