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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

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, 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

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, 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, 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, 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

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, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

quiet. Then about that time the Soviets went into Czechoslovakia. And just as my comment about East Germany, that was pretty close to home. And it ahppened that Kosygin was in Sweden on an official visit, and the troops were in there the day after he

Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

going. I know there And of course I know, as everybody does, about the Kosygin business and the Wilson business in London, which I thought fitted the whole pattern of this thing. Actually, Baggs and Ashmore had much the same kind of information as I

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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