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- , and Wesley United Methodist Church Choir.
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Vietnam Redux: McNamara Recants
Echoes from Vietnam-the
war that
will not end-sounded
again.
Robert McNamara, who as Secretary
of Defense in the Kennedy and
Johnson administrations was one of
the principal
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presidency and the audio tapes The
Humor of LB.I. Also remaining is the
wealth-filled display of sculpture,
swords and other gifrs given lo the
president by foreign leaders.
,Wall Honors Vietnam Veterans
The one uncompleted section of the
Library's
- , 0eft) who
spent time as a lecturer at the LBJ School of
Public Affairs. He was escorted through the
museum by volunteer Susan Dimmick.
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Early Decisions on Vietnam Discussed
A scholarly conference to explore the
early decisions made by the Kennedy
- to 1968, mostly with
advisers and Congressional leaders.
Three-quarters of the meetings deal
mainly with the Vietnam War. In
addition, there are notes for 37 meet
ings at which LBJ discussed foreign
affairs with correspondents and a 52page transcript
- , the riots in the cities
and the divisiveness of the Vietnam
war were balanced by ·•a period of ide
alism ... We believed that we could
end racism ... We believed that we
could end poverty." Turning to condi
tions in the country today. Clark said:
"If we
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Emeritus of Texas A & M, discussed
the underlying reason for his recent
book, Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon
Johnson's War. ''I was after the man
who made the decisions, agonized
over the Americans and Vietnamese
who were being killed every day.
The man who
- vious Lhre conferenc s
focu, d on hm
.S. policy toward
Vietnam evol ed in Wash·ngton and
was applied in the Field. This time,
twenty prominent scholar, met to con
sider ho, the Johnson Admini tration
search d for peace in Vietnam.
Pr . ident Johnson's
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Service Commission and as LBJ's "talent
scout;' sets new guidelines for opening the
voluminous Macy files in the Library's
collections.
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War Art RecordsImpressionsof Those Who
"Profile of a Vietnam Veteran: Old Soldiers Never Die,
They Just Fade Away
- ."
"In the Johnson years ... over 200 bills that ou would
consider to be bmdmark legislation in education, In civil rights,
and the conomy and tall reform, and conservation and medical
care and education."
"(Vietnam] took a terrible toll on him and it was visible
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performance.
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Symposium Probes Vietnam and Diplomacy
by Ted Gittinger
"The Vietnam War: International
Perspectives," a scholarly symposium
held over an October week-end, gath
ered historians from Russia, Japan,
Korea, China and the United States
- joined the
staff of National Security Adviser
Walt Rostow. Later that year he
became President Johnson's press
secretary. Ir was not an easy job: the
civil rights struggle, riots in the
cities, the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War,
and the Vietnam conflict saw
- the mid-point of
the war in Vietnam," Gallagher
described its battletiekls as '·places
where veterans and civilians from both
sides could gather" Lo reflect on the
experience that "had heen a crucible
out of which emerged a great nation.
"The ground
- to important federal posts,
and hear him tackling his first foreign
policy crises-the Panama Crisis, the
Cuban Guantanamo Water Crisis
while warily confronting the growing
turmoil in Vietnam, all as he surveys
an election-year
political scene
nationally
- a tour through a vibrant lifetime of experiences.
May 18:
Admiral Bobby Inman, former deputy chief of the CIA, will peer into ,the post
cold war world.
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Vietnam Paintings on Exhibit
A dramatic-and
somewhat un
usual-exhibition is now mounted in
lhe
- is calls to mind previous anxiou days.
April 18, 1968: Aboard Air Force One, a somber Former President Ei enhm\er li ten
President Johnson' summary of the ituation in Vietnam.]
On October 14, 1968, in the Cabinet Room, Senator Richard RusseU of Georgia
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on the verge of falling apart. How
could this have happened'?"
Liberals blame the struggle for
civil rights at home and the Vietnam
War. Conservatives blame a pennis
sive society which turned away from
traditional values.
But beware of parochial explana
tions
- , and a total Iy
unexpected document turns up on the
Library's front step, knocking for
admittance, as it were. This is a brief
review of one such case.
During the Vietnam War, Lyndon
Johnson drew the fire of some critics
for not more actively seeking a nego
- Kenneth Galbraith Takes A Fresh Look at LBJ and Vietnam
"The Vietnam Wm· i fading now
in imponanee in terms of evaluating
the ... Johnson pre idency. And as a
consequence, his stock has been ri ing. There is more of an inclination to
see him
- presenta
tion both to members of the LBJ
Library and to a packed audito
rium of school children.
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AdministrativeOfficialsReview
Veterans of the Johnson Administra
tion who had been in or near the deci
sion making process on the Vietnam
War gathered
- of his
harrowing, yet uplifting experiences as
a pilot in wartime Vietnam. The fol
lowing is excerpted from his web site.
http: //www.c ware-associates.
com/
about.html.
tary as an Army pilot. Flying helicop
ters in Vietnam, Ware traded the hard
ship
- that he had inherited a
commitment t South Vietnam
from John Kennedy and Dwight
Eisenhmver. He would not betray
it. Not only that: it ,vas a matt r
of practical politics. The congres
sional coalition that supported the
Great Society was the same one
- Calcutta. And the re ·ult
fwas) Vietnam ... Lyndon Johnson inherited it and was su,pi
cmus of it. but he couldn't pcrsuaJc hims If that he 1-..new
more
about the suhje t than the people whos good fortune it was to
know more about such things than the likes
- . involvement in Vietnam; that
the Warren Commission report was a
massive cover-up; and that Vice
President Lyndon Johnson was at
least an accessory after the fact who
immediately accommodated the con
spirators by reversing a Kennedy
peace move.
Luckinbill
- was
the incubus of Vietnam. Decades
might pass before historians could
pronounce balanced judgments on
this turbulent period. But what an
advantage scholars would have if the
testimony of the actors in that drama
was theirs to consult.
By May 15, 1973 FranLLand
- . Aust-in was the fiftieth ~top on
the document's national tour, which has
included visit to the Bush, Carter, Ger
ald Ford, and Truman libraries.
A Traveling Vietnam Memorial
All who served in the Vi tnam War
will never forget th sound: "Whop.
Whop
- that
Califano join his staff. and in fact cre
ated a position for him as chief domestic
adviser. Johnson was careful to insulate
Califano from his Vietnam policy, be
cause he knew that mixing up the war
with domestic policy would endanger
Johnson's most
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Portrait of Woodr w Wilson
by John Singer Sargent
Wood engraving print, "Martin Luther King"
by Ben Shahn
Bronze relief of Theodore Roosevelt
by James E. Fraser
Paintings relating to Vietnam: "Bobby" (left) and "Landscape" (right) by Ned Broderick
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- receiving grants-in-aid and the titles of their proposed
projects are· Philip Av1l10"Winning Hearts and Minds: The U.S.
Senate & Vietnam, 1964-1972," Muhammad Azmi •·u.s.As A
Factor in Pakistan-Soviet Relations 1947-1966," Mitchell Bard
''The Balance
- ...
the great pain and selfdoubt. ... "
Williams leaves the controversy
over Vietnam to the judgment of his
tory. But, he said, "I have heard the
anguish .... land] the advice lhe was
getting]: ·Go in; keep going; once
you're in, build up!"'even as other
voices
- of a man oing off to Vietnam, I never
presented a medal to a man's mother or widow without dy
ing a little inside myself. It's always the worst kind f 1>ain
to have to do something that you know will cause surfering
and sacrifice for many even If vou're
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in Vietnam·> The irony is, he thought he
was. "Well, boys, J've gone the second,
third, and fourth mile tonight,'· he said,
after his famous Johns Hopkins speech
in 1965. He had proposed a multi-billion
dollar rehabilitation program for Indo
china
- Policymaking: The Interface
between Domestic and Foreign Economic
Policies", Michael Lawson "LBJ and the
Native American Quest for Self-Determi
nation"; Ardith Maney "Influencing Food
As.sistancePolicy": Stephen Pelz ··America
Goes to War: Korea and Vietnam
- . and finally a freelancer, for the
past sixty years
uncan 's images or
the world's great events and people
have been etched into the popular
consciousness.
Highlights
of his
career include award-winning cover
age of the Korean and Vietnam Wars;
a close
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Americans-the
black the
Hispanic, the elderly, the poor.
More than once, he said he
would not let Vietnam shatter
bis Great S ciety, as President
Truman's Fair Deal had been
killed by charges that he had
lost China to the Communists
and the Korean War.
Th
- do the writing. The prnj
ccl took nearly four years.
Markman recounted one striking sto
ry from his research. It involved LBJ and
G org Ball, who was the leading dove on
Vietnam in the days when basic decisions
were being made that Jed to the great
- Conflict: The American
Experience in I.ndochina"; Deborah
Gershenowitz, "The Other Side of
Protest: Opposition
to the Anti
Vietnam War Movement"; Robert
Herzstein, "Henry R. Luce and the
American
Experience
in Asia,
1948-1967":
Robert
Johnson,
"Ernest
- in the cover photo.
The Exhibition (continued)
The Vietnam War is traced in sev
eral panels. The first, featuring a
scale reproduction of the U.S.S.
Maddox (above) recalls the Tonkin
Gulf incident in 1964 which led to
congressional
passage of the
Tonkin
- went wrong, and
he has not been credited with what
went right. .. The literature on the
Johnson Presidency is badly
skewed. There are an enormous
number of studies of Vietnam... On
domestic policies there is only a
respectable literature on civil
rights
- ol Tc,as at Austin. He wa~
particularly interested in the Six-D,1y-War Middle East
exhibit and the Vietnam exhibit located in the Foreign
Affairs area on thL fir~t tloor of the Library.
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A Centennial Exhibition:
Treasuresof the University's
First
- the escalation of the American military effort in Vietnam
in 1965 and policy toward Latin America, important files were
opened in the 1970s, but on other topics, such as arms control and
relations with the Soviet Union. the vital papers remain classified
