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Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • enabling a crate of hand grenades to come down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, one of those grenades hypothetically having blown off the head of the young soldier who was being posthumously honored in this 'Medal of Honor ceremony. By the nature of things
Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • into Southeast Asia. G: What kind of missions were involved when you did start flying them? R: The first one that comes to mind was cutting a road called the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It came through Laos. We cut the road by destroying a bridge
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or contain the President. So at those early stages of the Ninetieth Congress, the President was still in good shape with the Congress regarding Vietnam. G: LBJ wrote secretly to Ho Chi Minh proposing direct talks, and this offer was rejected. Do you recall
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with these 2,000,000 tons of wheat . The next day Mrs . Gandhi sent birthday greeting to Ho Chi Minh . were connected . The two incidents LBJ, of course, went right through the roof and so did Rusk . I received a bunch of cablegrams in the middle of the night
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • be private communications with Ho Chi Minh, whether it was these Warsaw intermediaries, whether it was somebody in Rumania, as I recall, that was supposed to be mixed up in something . a very low boiling point on some occasions . George has I think he felt
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • guess the Ho Chi Minh Trail was pretty much an improved-- L: Road, by that time. G: --system, by that time. Yes. I think we talked a little bit about how you came back and retired and eventually went into the State Department, but I don't think we
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Vietnam in terms of World War II, realizing that we don't have popular support for the war in this country partially because we don't have a feeling of hate toward the enemy. In other words, Ho Chi Minh was never considered a Hitler or a Hirohito
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the Tay Do Battalion?" But anyway, that battalion was formed, and fought under the Viet Minh. When the Japanese were driven out of Vietnam in World War II, some Japanese noncoms and officers stayed, and organized and trained the Tay Do Battalion
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 4 (IV), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of that above the DMZ--we've played this almost antiseptic, surgical operation. And in addition to the inability of people to accept a war in which they did not become emotionally involved in hating He Chi Minh, I don't think there's anybody in the United
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in between where both would run it for a time and gradually disengage the military side of it. We had two big operations of areas that were the last places where the communist Viet Minh were. so on. That was down in the South and down to Ca Mau
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jacobson -- I -- 3 G: In that connection, do you know anything about his dealings with Trinh Minh Thé? He was one of the sect generals down in the Delta. J: Yes, I think the Hoa Hao. I'm not sure of that. I don't know
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had been in Vietnam with Nixon in 1953 when he made his global trip, two and a half months around the world, but most of which was spent in the Far East. We were up in Hanoi and the Red River Delta. fighting the Viet Minh. a losing cause
Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on the elect ion has to be meas ured again st the backg round that some men were not perm itted to run by the South Vietn ames e--Au Tr uong Thanh , Duon g, Van Minh , had been barre d from runn ing-- popu lar cand idate s." And I said, "Now, again st
Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • have any trouble with the Buddhists or Catholics? Not the slightest. My best friend, I guess, over there was Big Minh [Duong Van Minh], and he was a powerful Buddhist, a very strong one. I certainly revered him--I'm using the wrong word. I mean I had
  • personnel carriers (APCs) in the pacification program; the Buddhist crisis of 1963; Duong Van Minh, also known as "Big Minh;" the coup lead by Nguyen Khanh; Timmes' relationship with Big Minh through 1985; John Paul Vann and his relationship with Huynh Van
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • later on. G: Did you know the men who put on the coup of 1963, Tran Van Don, Big [Duong Van] Minh, and so on? D: Oh, yes. I knew them very well. I knew Don very well because his brother-in-law, General Le Van Kim--Don's sister was married to Kim
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • many political organizations, many secret organizations. One of them, of course, was the Viet Minh, the Communist Party, under the guise of the larger associations of Vietnamese patriotic organizations. We knew by then that the Communists were
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about how well they do their job, and at the outset the impression was positive. Big Minh [Duong Van Minh] was perhaps a bit phlegmatic, but he commanded a lot of loyalties, and our impressions were positive. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Timmes' communication with Duong Van Minh; McArthur leaving Vietnam; protection of the U.S. Embassy building until the last helicopter left Saigon
Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . knows how many other contacts there were. G: Phillips was close to Big Minh. God LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • staff; Edward Lansdale; General Taylor; Robert McNamara; David Nes; Rufus Phillips; Charles Bohannon; Lucien Conein; Dunn's eyewitness to the Diem coup; Pham Ngoc Thao; PLF (VC); Article 32 investigation of Dunn; Father DeJaeger; Tran Van Don; Big Minh
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on a remarkable defense, but there was dissatisfaction here at the slowness of General [Tran Van "Little"] Minh in his relief operations and pressure to replace him. Minh was an able general but apt to be cautious, and we felt too cautious. I think he was finally
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : Was that the time I went out with him and we took [Nguyen] Khanh around the provinces raising his arms in the air? G: No, I think this was before Khanh. the Khanh coup. T: I think this was just before I think [Duong Van "Big"] Minh was still in. The Khanh coup
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • messages to the Vietnamese, to [Nguyen] Khanh, who had just overthrown Big [Duong Van] Minh, "no more coups." G: I've heard it quoted slightly-- Z: Taylor was with them, perhaps one of the greatest scenes of all history. They were the two most unlikely
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Be's model. After all, he came out of the Viet Minh during his opposition to the French up until 1951. So I really can't say that the CAP teams were better than the RD teams. I think you needed both. But I think they were doing a much better job than
Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a commitment there to whoever that person was. I'd like to know who that was. [Duong Van Minh] G: Okay. C: Mansfield also pointed out that even if we won, even if the South Vietnamese won, we still were going to have enormous problems and they were going
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)