Discover Our Collections


  • Tag > Digital item (remove)
  • Collection > LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Tag > new2024-Mar (remove)
  • Type > Text (remove)

3 results

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -- 4 One, of course, thinks about the generic story of Vietnam, and there was egregious treatment of certain aspects of that story from time to time. I like to think that during that period, that long night of Vietnam, that the rather hostile
  • McCloskey’s work in foreign service and as State Department spokesman; reporters; Vietnam; credibility gap; coordinating briefings with the White House and the Pentagon; new mission of the marines in 1965; withholding information from the press
Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to overcome poverty in the U.S.; impressions of Sargent Shriver and Shriver’s work with OEO; LBJ’s attitude toward OEO; how Vietnam affected all programs; the role of loyalty to LBJ in getting confirmation; overview of Perrin’s work with OEO.