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Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ]. This was before the war, before it got--the bad war when the war had to go in--when Chiang Kai-shek had to retreat into West China. And this city, Fenyang, is the beginning of a long caravan trail. It's on the great, rich agriculture basin of Shansi [Shanxi
  • to China; General Claire Lee Chennault's personality and suggestions for military action; Judd's relationship with Joseph Stilwell; conflict between Stilwell and Chiang Kai-shek; the work of Stilwell's successor, Albert Wedemeyer; how communists reacted
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, 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
  • States; why Quemoy and Matsu were so important and how difficult it was to militarily defend them; General Douglas MacArthur's trip to Taiwan; MacArthur's character; Chiang Kai-shek's threat to attack mainland China from Taiwan; Judd congratulating Chiang
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
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • expressed when he came back? B: You know, in reading your notes I think that the wisdom of people like Senator George and of what I call the elder statesmen was able to help guide Eisenhower through this period. You got to remember now, Chiang Kai-shek
  • ; drinking among senators; Grace Tully; LBJ’s problems with kidney stones; Chiang Kai-shek; tax bill controversy; foreign policy issues; John Foster Dulles; Clinton Anderson
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Chiang Kai-shek on the brain .. Chiang Kai-shek bought more Republican politicians than any foreign leader in the history of the country. He would take our foreign aid and he'd slip campaign contributions--like, you know, Senator [Styles] Bridges
  • Steve Mitchell; the oil business; drought relief; President Eisenhower; foreign aid; Chiang Kai-Shek; Bricker Amendment; Senator Walter George; Allan Shivers; the 1954 Senate election; Dixon-Yates controversy; Taft-Hartley amendments; Pat McCarran
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXXII -- 17 J: Then Senator Taft, as majority leader, used to usually have a party at the Senate for the visiting chief of state. Madame Chiang Kai-shek came to town. That triggered a series of entertainments
  • ; Allan Shivers' visit to Washington, D.C.; LBJ's relationship with Sam Houston Johnson, Josefa Johnson, and Rebekah Johnson; Oveta Culp Hobby; visits to Washington, D.C. by Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Anthony Eden; Wayne Morse changing parties
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • communists would want it and I didn't know why Chiang Kai-shek wanted to defend it. But you see, what was happening here is rather interesting. You must realize that the whole Lyndon Johnson political strategy during that period was to drive a wedge
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to stop. But there was no real significance to that. G: Okay. R: Then I think--did we go from there to Thailand or from there to Hong Kong? G: Let's see. I have Taipei. R: Taipei? Could be. G: Met with Chiang Kai-shek. R: Could be. Let me take
  • , 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 W. Macy, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 working with the Kuomintang, with the Chiang Kai-Shek government, in the creation of a Ministry of National Defense. This was part of our advisory
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was with Chiang Kai-shek in Chiang Kai-shek's We were on this tour. He was vice president, and Kennedy had sent him to Vietnam and other places on this tour. extremely hard on this thing. Johnson was He had one press conference at one thirty in the morning
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Chinese and Chiang Kai­ shek. And in a peculiar sort of way, the support of Chiang Kai-shek really became an isolationist cause. See, it was obvious nobody was going to break their neck supporting Chiang Kai-shek. was a losing cause
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the position that they ought to be allowed to continue as they had been and was opposed to allowing any erosion of the Taiwan situation. G: He liked Madame Chiang and Chiang [Kai-shek]. How well organized was the China lobby or the people who supported
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kai-shek? D: Just tangentially. I didn't see any direct observation, but just the issues and the discussion and the witnesses and the persons referred to in connection with the MacArthur hearings. There was a lot of that background covered
  • 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, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . matter of fact, this resolution--. unleashing Chiang Kai-Shek--. We always said it wasn't a case of That fleet was there to protect Chang Kai-Shek, to keep the Chinese Communists off of Formosa. M: I think that was fairly clear. Well, as a LBJ
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 5 (V), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh M. Winters -- V -- 6 G: He visited with Chiang Kai-shek, too. Did he say anything about that? W: No, not that I remember. G: This was also the trip when he went to India, and supposedly gave a rebel yell in the Taj Mahal
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, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that was about it. He hadn't been home; he had been very much i.nyolved with foreign policy, and when you get to that exalted position-at that time) you know, they were fussing around a lot about starting the Uni.ted Nations; Chiang Kai-shek; Madame Chiang
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the country, and so he was I think very taken with what social benign, reforms could do for a country and what a strong, in a sense, dictatorship could do, and so was very positive to Chiang and Madame Chiang [Kai-shek] . In that case I was more closely
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you," and made arrangements for this party later that evening. G: He went from Manila to Taipei and met with Chiang Kai-shek. Anything on that aspect? J: There again were crowds of people. I was impressed by the show at the airport and my
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (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
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the Democrats and the Republicans, as I remember. G: Why did the Republicans seem more supportive of the China Lobby than the Democrats? S: They had a very high opinion of Chiang Kai-shek and were supporting him. Well, there was a feeling of communist threat
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that sort of thing. And Diem was engaged in the same program of modernization, in that sense. You really have the three models.Whether you do it with that kind of semi-authoritarianism, which was the Shah, Diem, Ataturk, Meiji. Another one is Chiang Kai-shek
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • --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, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to express it, but he was all in favor of the heaviest all-out war of calling on Chiang Kai-shek's troops. (Interruption) Then came the bombshell. Truman fired MacArthur, dismissed him from command in that field, recalled him. The country was in an uproar