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Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of short term, but a very powerful stimulus in terms of public opinion. It was a much applauded meeting. The mood was what the American people wanted it to be, and [Alexsei] Kosygin played along with that. It was in that sense a very successful meeting
  • to the MLF; LBJ's relationship with Charles de Gaulle; U.S.-European relations 1964-1966; Bundy's involvement in the 1967 Middle East crisis; the effect of the 1967 Glassboro meeting between LBJ and Aleksei Kosygin; Bundy's government contractor work during
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Krim -- IV -- 16 G: How did he feel about that? K: Well, I think he had anticipated it. You know, his popularity shot up tremendously the day after his meeting with [Alexsei] Kosygin, and this was even more of a popular reaction
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • started about your second trip at the time that Kosygin was supposed to arrive in London. Had you seen, when you went back over there, any kind of draft of what became president Johnson's letter to Ho Chi Minh? C: Yes, I did. letter. I saw, as well
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the President on the steps, greeting [Soviet Union Premier Aleksei] Kosygin, and I jumped up there to interpret. And we went right into a meeting, just the President, and Kosygin, and the Soviet interpreter, Victor [Sukhodrev?], and myself. No chance to stop
  • for LBJ in 1967 following Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's death; Krimer's involvement in the 1967 Glassboro Summit as an interpreter; basic interpretation protocol; LBJ's relationship with Aleksei Kosygin; Kosygin's discussion with Robert McNamara regarding
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it except as I read about it in the newspapers . Ba : If I may postpone it, I was going to ask you about the one thing you would have been involved in, the Wilson and Kosygin meeting, but if I may postpone that for a moment . B : Ba : Yes . You
  • incident; Glassboro meeting; Harriman; Wilson-Kosygin interview; Great Britain peace demonstrations; 3/31 speech; US-British relations during Johnson years; Dean Rusk; George Ball; National Security Advisory in White House
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the Russian leaders. I had talked about the war in Vietnam with Mr. Kosygin the year before. I had seen him in July--not the year before, some months before--July of 1965, six months earlier. And he had indicated that they wanted to see the war finished
Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , or in Soviet leadership, with [Nikita S.] Khrushchev being forced out of office and [Alexei N.] Kosygin replacing him. And it basically had been the hope for several years prior to that that the United States would be able to draw some benefit from the Sino
  • countries; the role of the reporter in a war; the issue of infiltration; putting information together when no source knew or would tell the whole story; the role of the Soviet Union in the Vietnam War when Nikita Khrushchev was succeeded by Alexei Kosygin
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • started that way; it wasn't a matter of any moment. M: It wasn't a new draft of a previously drafted letter? Chester Cooper was in London apparently giving some kind of initiative to Wilson to give to Kosygin at the time. 12 LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by coming forward with negotiations. When the bombing was actually taken down for Tet in February of that year [1967], and it happened to coincide with Kosygin's visit to Wilson in England, the President was engaged on two tracks with correspondence to Ho
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was the occasion for Mr. Kosygin's coming to the United States for a special meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations, so that the answer is yes in the sense that the Middle East was the reason for his being here. And of course if Mr. Kosygin
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; Rather’s comments on LBJ’s choice of advisors; evaluation of LBJ’s press secretaries: Reedy, Moyers and Christian; LBJ’s role pertaining to Kosygin and Middle East; LBJ as a role model to rather in gathering all information available and representing hard
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , or the Glassboro meeting when Mr. Kosygin of Russia came over and brought his daughter. BH: Right. F: Would you like to tell us how that got underway? BH: Yes. It was really fascinating. We were down at the beach house with a flock of children; of course
  • Meeting LBJ in 1959; Governor of New Jersey, 1961; LBJ and Kosygin held a meeting at Glassboro State College; Kosygin’s daughter, Dr. Gvishiana, joined Lady Bird, Lynda and Mrs. Hughes for lunch at Island Beach; Ramsey Clark; candidates, 1966-1968
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that the most personally meaningful thing that I did in the White House was the ghetto work. Plus--and we'll get to this later I suppose--I was given responsibility for putting together. running, a summit meeting with Kosygin. Those two, I would say. would
  • relationship with Congreess during LBJ’s presidency; shepherding bills through Congress; meat inspection act, War on Poverty and OEO; LBJ’s meeting with Kosygin at Glassboro, N.J.; work towards LBJ’s nomination before his March 1968 withdrawal; Markman’s
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 3 (III), 3/9/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was thinking of Pleiku. The Pleiku situation--Kosygin was then in Hanoi. So that there was some dissent at that time. But at the time of Tonkin, there was no dissent. M: Was there any consideration given to whether or not this was going to be a regular policy
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • their jobs. 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bonanno -- IV -- 7 G: Okay. The latter part of June, [Aleksei] Kosygin and LBJ
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • there, Kosygin happened to be in Hanoi, and-G: This was February, I believe, wasn't it? Z: February, that's right. February of 1965? I'm sure the VC figured with Kosygin there we wouldn't challenge them again. Each of these, their timing--VC, one
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • was prepared to reach an agreement with Kosygin on arms talks, which surprised Kosygin--surprised the Russians. They didn't know anything. This was a letter that the Russians had sent about two months before that, which the President then trotted out
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • diplomacy through Wilson to Kosygin . Now, the first was infinitely-­ M: That's the most confusing two-three weeks of the entire period . B: Oh, it's utterly, utterly confusing, but if you keep your eye on dates it gets clearer . Also, it included Baggs
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be possibly useful here to say that during the visit to Moscow it was arranged for our little delegation to meet with Mr. Kosygin. Kosygin then was, together with Mr. Mikoyan, a deputy minister of the Council of Ministers. We spent about two hours with him
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of supply. The Chinese were their closest ally in the surge of 1964-65. Now, [in] 1965 two things happened. One is that we began bombing and they began to have to get more sophisticated equipment, and that is why in early 1965 Kosygin went to Hanoi
  • ; the Quayle Report; North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese nationalism; the domino theory in Southeast Asia; Thailand's importance; the likelihood of China expanding into Southeast Asia in the early 1960's; Alexei Kosygin's 1965 trip to Hanoi; the major split
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was constantly groping to try to understand a man like Kosygin, or a woman like the Prime Minister of India. He was trying to find out where our own policy came into conflict with the policy of others, and one of the ways to do that is to try to figure out just
Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Kosygin. At no time did I ever hear him suggest either specifically or indirectly that we should be prepared to send American troops to the Middle East, and I might tell you it was a great comfort to me that he never did. F: There was also some pullback
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ; not involved in policy making; Fulbright letter and the ruckus McCarthy made; February 1967, the National Student Association problem; Pueblo Mission; Tuesday lunches in 1967; halt of bombing in Vietnam; 3/31 speech; Six Day War; Kosygin on hot line; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • v i e t structure is built that way, there's not much point in trying to do business, say, with [Andrei] Gromyko, whereas you can occasionally with Kosygin. This was truer in the days of S t a l i n than I think it is now when you really have
  • Biographical information; Vietnam War; Clark Clifford; Paul Nitze; Dick Helms; DeGaulle; Phil Farley; Henry Kuss; morale problems; Wriston Report; McGeorge Bundy; Christian Herter; Walt Rostow; Dean Rusk; McCarthyism; Yalta; Andrei Gomyko; Kosygin
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • --in February, I believe it was, right after the Pleiku incident--took place while [Soviet Union Premier Alexey] Kosygin was in Hanoi. Seems to me that might have generated some kind of change in the situation. K: Right. Yes. G: Do you think the North
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , then know it was going to be surface-to-air missiles and all that it turned out to be . And we associated Kosygin's visit in early February, with sort of refo rmalizing good relations, good Communist-bloc relations, between Moscow and Hanoi . So
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • do it succeeded. the message indicated they were The hotfrom Kosygin, the situation seemed to have played message, to tell in that the truth. it. I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org K: And he wasn't get M: really
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • other countries; LBJ speaking Spanish; Glassboro, New Jersey, meeting with Kosygin; trip around the US to visit military troops; communication problems aboard the USS Enterprise; LBJ’s response to a Williamsburg, Virginia, minister’s anti-war statements.
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • conventional war, or a nuclear war. spokesmen of all three capitals, Khrushchev, Kosygin, Lin Pi Mao, all of them have proclaimed openly: do it." 0, The Giap, IIThis is the way we're going to So this is the real test of whether or not this technique
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was on this business when Wilson, having had Kosygin down at his country house in Chequers over the weekend and apparently having talked Vietnam to him all night, then drove him home to Claridge's Hotel at eleven o'clock at night, or midnight maybe, and then at two
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of all the oppo rtuni ties that reall y strik e me, the one relati ng to the Chet Cooper mission to London. M: That was in 1967. S: The one where Kosygin was visit ing London, I think perhaps that was an opportunity that offered some good prospect
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be accompanying Premier Kosygin, Therefore Mrs. Johnson would be part of this, and we had to do something with and for the lady. talked to Dick Hughes. The President meantime had He and Betty had thought that a day at a beach with a normal family might
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the frustrations that security imposes. But you sure can't get over a shot in the dark and the guy jumping on you. We were so lucky with Kosygin in Canada. I had Kosygin in Canada, but he hadn't planned . . . It was such a quickly arranged visit, that all he
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was interested in going to the Soviet Union and was probing that, [Robert] McNamara made sort of a surprise visit to the Kremlin and met with Kosygin at 15 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)