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Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in Vietnam over the night, I've forgotten what, and he'd been getting calls and he'd been up all morning . But, as I say, some mornings he'd visit and ask about personal things, and sometimes he'd be busy and there would not be a word exchanged . Generally

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

of dismantling and returning responsibilities to the states and cities. It might have been possible to rationalize and straighten it all out before Johnson left if it hadn't been for Vietnam; the predicament we had was that Vietnam overtook the domestic policy
involvement in task force policy-making; Joe Califano; Wilbur Cohen; Califano and LBJ working at all hours at the White House; Vietnam overshadowing domestic policy; financial problems in domestic programs; morale in the Bureau of the Budget; Maurice Stans

Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the specific things . I think it was something to do with the Vietnam War or the Middle East situation. M: This was the group that press sometimes refers to as the wise men or the elder statesmen or such names as that? B: Yes, but it wasn't official

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

." This was Whitney Young wanting to go to Vietnam. Is this it? B: It's the twenty-first. G: Why did he want to go to Vietnam? C: I can't remember. The other thing here which I think is important, we really were fighting for the guidelines. I note here Wayne

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

have told me on the phone. God, there's a lot of stuff about Vietnam here. God, this is interesting. I don't understand it at all. "Ed Williams up here to represent unions." July 25, which began at six-thirty and ran until ten o'clock, I guess

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

well. F: There wasn't any selling him on the idea? He bought that at the beginning? C: He bought the idea at the beginning. I'm trying to think in relationship--there was one other, when he was going out to Vietnam on one of these trips, but I

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

knowledge and judgment, but I can see how Lodge might quite honestly have had some concern--and of course, this was in July of 1963. I suppose it would be fair to say the State Department had not quite yet put in its first team on Vietnam. It did later
Vietnam
Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Vietnam. And like any mother, father and daughter, there was sadness, efforts at expressing hopefulness and that kind of thing. But in those days Lynda had a very volatile personality, and like many of us one and two-child families, we spoke to our

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Fascinating. Now I I think we were going to talk about when you were USIA director and Vietnam. M: The story that I told Merle Miller that I wanted to report to you was this. You may recall that in the midst of the Vietnam controversy, Senator George
Vietnam
Biographical information; public educational broadcasting legislation; 1960 campaign; liaison with Eastern states; vice presidential nomination; media campaign; LBJ and JFK in New York; LBJ and television; Cuban Missile Crisis; USIA; Vietnam

Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Vietnam
succeed the Presidency; comparison of Truman and LBJ’s preparedness on accession to Presidency; LBJ’s meetings with Congressman; Vietnam; legislation passed under LBJ; Larry O’Brien; 3/31 announcement; LBJ’s motives for withdrawing; LBJ’s weaknesses

Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, or that he felt deeply needed to be done. And in most instances, for those first several, well, first fe\"1 years, he was successful. M: Do you have any opinion about his position on Vietnam versus or in relation to the congressional position on Vietnam

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and talk to Mr. Johnson on into the next spring of 1964? W: The only times that talked with the President were during the times that he invited all the governors to come for briefings on Vietnam. And I've forgotten the dates of those briefings but I
Vietnam
F. Kennedy; the admission of Negroes into the University of Alabama; John F. Kennedy’s death; Wallace’s meetings with President Johnson; governors’ briefings on Vietnam; LBJ’s personality; Lurleen Wallace’s first trip to the White House as a governor

Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, especially presidential election years. But there was always a foreign policy content in it, 'cause there's always some crisis of some kind. that grew more and more. Of course, as Vietnam grew, Those things were organized by--I'm not sure whether Salinger

Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

helped a good deal, too. About that time, too, the escalation began in Vietnam. Obviously, that had a serious iQpact on the budgeting, but could you see in the budgeting process more and more involvement in Vietnam? 5: Oh, yes. [Yes, yes.] We saw
Vietnam
; LBJ and the space program; Office of Economic Opportunity; the PPBS system; budgetary effects of Vietnam War; Defense Dept. and the budget; the power of the Budget Bureau; relationship between Budget Bureau directors and presidents; testifying before

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Vietnam
[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, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there and the Ambassador had called me and said, tough one. F: "I'm hiding under my desk" I think it was a Well, we'll have to wait and see how history judges it. Then you made a famous, noteworthy speech in '67--a so-called hawk to dove speech on Vietnam. Did you get

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the trip, a very important purpose. What Kennedy wanted was a top presence to come down on Diem like a ton of bricks and tell him that he absolutely had to institute some reforms in Vietnam, that he could not get by in the dictatorial manner in which he had
, the East-West Cultural Center in Hawaii, and Vietnam; LBJ's behavior in Vietnam; LBJ's visit to the Philippines; meeting Chiang Kai-shek in Taipei; LBJ drinking too much in Thailand; LBJ's visit with Jawarharlal Nehru and travel in India; LBJ's visit

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

other things on his mind. \
Vietnam
relationship; 1934 congressional race; Task Force on Income Maintenance; Vietnam; task force recommendations

Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)

was deciding what to do about Vietnam, changing his . views on Vietnam. lesson I ever le~rned from him, the thing he probably else . • . when he had a meeti~g and it would be over More often the greatest ~aid ~nd more than anything we would be staying

Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of error to be made? They had the experience of Latin American difficulties in the Kennedy Administration to go by, certainly. Was it just inattention? M: I think it was just absent-mindedness, inattention. know, we were involved in Vietnam by then. You

Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

commitments in Vietnam that were hanging over him, which incidentally I think had been probably the foremost thing in this man's mind for certainly the last year. Near East. Also, the anxiety over what was going to happen in the He knew what it was like

Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/12/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

to be faced with the onus of using nuclear weapons in order to be able to win a nonnuclear combat. P: I'd like to ask you some questions here on what effects the Vietnam conflict has had on research and development, in terms of what is directly attributable
ABM System; space; Functional Orbit Bombardment; Vietnam; F-III program; AMSA; Admiral Rickover

Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

. In addition, we've had the development of the SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft which is being used in Southeast Asia and has turned out to be a very valuable source of photographic intelligence. P: Have some of these developed directly from Vietnam? You've had

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

we agreed to provide some assistance to that rice institute to try to proliferate the fast-growing rice that they had come up with, very prolific rice for Southeast Asia, for Malaysia, for Thailand and for Vietnam. They agreed to move some of that out
; malfunctioning public address systems; foreign trips; Ambassador Ed Clark; Southeast Asian Conference in Manila; Tyler Abell; secret trip to Vietnam; examples of LBJ making last-minute decisions; problem in Seoul with setting up for a public appearance; Jim Adams

Oral history transcript, Sidney Dillon Ripley II, interview 1 (I), undated, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, but on condition that we would understand that we would not proceed with further requests for funding until after the Vietnam War was over. B: Incidentally, sir, this question may be totally off base, but you served in Southeast Asia in World War II. Have you

Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the tenure of his stay there from the time when he began. G: What view of [Ngo Dinh] Diem did he have when he began his tenure? 0: Well, you have to remember that when we went in to Vietnam it was the time of the immolation of the Buddhists, the self

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Vietnam
Department and legislation; White House staff; meeting with LBJ regarding Medicare; infant mortality rate; National Health Insurance; future of PHS; international health; Vietnam; Honolulu Conference; World Health Assembly; U.S. role in international health.

Oral history transcript, Felipe Herrera, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, from an international point of view--particularly the Vietnam crisis. So of course I understand that the pressure on him came more from other areas. But leaving that aside, I would say theoretically he was very pro-Latin America. type of emotional

Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Vietnam
; LBJ’s attitudes about reporters and television networks; LBJ and Rather’s discussion upon Rather’s return from Vietnam; comments about Rostow’s Vietnam briefing; failure of military intelligence; Joint Chiefs of Staff conspiracy and Rostow’s involvement

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

either the relationship with the Soviet Union or the peace process in Vietnam to the results he had hoped to achieve by the end of his presidency. We had many conversations about that. I remember that in November, probably during the Thanksgiving period
LBJ’s frustration at the end of his presidency, especially regarding the Soviet Union and Vietnam; LBJ’s attempt to meet with Nixon and Soviets; Urban League dinner in New York; LBJ’s concern over press coverage of anti-war, anti-LBJ picketing; sale

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

saying you'd go around the table? C: Well, Vietnam came up. Since these were academics, it would come up at every meeting, in greater or lesser degree. They were not happy with it. We were now drafting a lot of people and they were feeling

Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the feeling toward the end of that time in the late 1960s, that as a result of all of the problems of Vietnam that the committee was somewhat less influential than it had been in the earlier part of that period. The 1950s I would characterize as a period
stockpiling; economic aid to the Middle East; the decision to place the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado; deliberations regarding sending military forces to Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam; support for Republic of China's President Chiang Kai-shek

Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 K: Well, I think that the main reason is the fiscal stringency resulting from the war in Vietnam. The second reason is that many
Vietnam
Biographical information; First meeting with LBJ; first impressions of LBJ; establishment of National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities; effects of Vietnam War; not close to LBJ; controversy over Meredith Wilson; no connection with the White

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, it seems to me that Lyndon Johnson has a high place in the history of liberal and progressive government in this country. M: Do you think he has made a mistake, however, in the case of the Vietnam War? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 14 world, including helping in Vietnam through the past several years with some of the pacification activities that have been taking place there. I believe, Dr. Baker
Vietnam
; AID and international program activities; pollution; legislation drafting process; Vietnam; personnel recruitment; racially integrated staff

Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

during your time at all? C: It was slightly. When I made my farewell visit to Rapacki, the Polish Foreign Minister, without instructions I suggested to Rapacki that they were in a very good position to help the cause of peace in Vietnam. I pointed out

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in Hanoi-had a respect of the Vietnamese. But the others. I visited them in the three Associated States over in Laos and Cambodia as well as Vietnam, and in every other command the Vietnamese were--or natives, the Laos, the Khmer, the Cambodians--were

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Oh, yes, that It always interested me and I told him when he was president; I said, "You know, you amaze me because I disagreed on Vietnam. And he would always quote -- in later years, too, liThe Joint Chiefs of Staff said this . . . " And I said

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and ask you a few more questions about that, did the acceleration of the Vietnam War give you increasing difficulties with the budget? Did you have to shift resources? Z: In two phases. First, somewhere in 1967 I guess, when Schultze was budget
Impact of the Vietnam War on the budget; the surcharge issue; the Ways and Means Committee demands a budget cut; Congressman Tom Curtis; Wilbur Mills and George Mahon work out a compromise with LBJ, Fowler, and Zwick; Wilbur Mills evaluated; budget

Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Vietnam
price policy; union democracy; stockpiling; Direct Investment Program; balance of payments; transition; cabinet committee work on post-planning for economic consequences of the end of Vietnam War

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