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

because it's a point--well, it's a little off and I'll let it go right now. Go ahead. G: You talked about the threat of the Communists from the mainland invading Taiwan and being unable to take the island. Was there also a threat that Chiang Kai-shek
of Chiang Kai-shek; Judd giving medical treatment to Major General Shozo Motogawa; how Judd left China; the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; Judd's prediction of war with Japan and the role of the United States in relations with Japan; how Judd came

to establish some kind of a position on the mainland. And in the election of 1952, this was an election issue. As I remember it, Mr. Dulles' phrase was "unleash Chiang Kai-shek." As it turned out, the moment Mr. Dulles became Secretary of State, he

of the visit to the Philippines. G: He went from there to Taiwan and met with Chiang Kai-Shek. Do you have any recollections of that visit? T: Briefly. So much of this kind of trip ;s pro forma, it's protocol, protocolese. I had been there when Nixon had

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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

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

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Phillips -- II -- 3 P: That's a whole story in and of itself. It was AID-supported, but if you'll remember, the Gimo [Chiang Kai-shek] had literally

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

there. They've got every right to defend themselves and attack the enemy in their home bases" and so on. So Zorthian unleashed the Vietnamese navy one day. G: It was sort of reminiscent of Chiang Kai-shek being unleashed. (Laughter) Did you get a lot

--was that we had an opportunity to learn from our experience dealing with Chiang Kai-shek in the war and post-war years; that the one thing we should have learned is to call the bluff of our clients. Chiang had led us around by the nose; had lost his own

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

for that function. When I mentioned earlier the émigrés--as you may know, on the Taiwan scene, which was recent history, there was the whole third-force phenomenon. Somebody has to talk to the third force, which was neither Chiang Kai-shek nor Mao Tse-tung

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

coming across the straits to take the islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Humphrey was very skeptical about the commitment of American forces in that area and raised questions about the corruption of the Chiang Kai-shek regime in Taiwan. He also was a very

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

tragedy for this country that he had the nervous flaw that destroyed him. At any rate, going back to what we were talking about, President Johnson was well aware of this episode. More or less in memory of it, he asked Kay Graham and my wife and me

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

; the Kennedy staff that stayed to work for LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with the press compared to that of previous presidents; (dis)advantages of getting close to the president; LBJ’s relationship with Phil and Kay Graham; Great Society speech; type of access press

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