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- Vietnam mail and things. I work with Will Sparks writing messages, mostly kind of the secondary chores of the speechwriter. Many speech writers write letters and a few of them work on messages. B: Whose payroll were you on then? c: I went back
- to go over and have a casual luncheon with him. I was over there after the Vietnam thing. with General [Bruce] Clark. I went over to Vietnam And Ted Connell, who sort of acted as a self-appointed sergeant major to Johnson all the time, in any event
- in Vietnam; the 1968 convention in Chicago.
- Vietnam
- Biographical information; 1960 “rump session;” Henry Cabot Lodge; campaign trips; Democratic ticket; Catholic issue; McCarthy censure; Watkins Committee; Vice Presidency; assassination; Connally-Yarborough feud; Dallas; funeral; Vietnam; press
- 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 15 a result, while I was in New Delhi there was almost no public reaction to Vietnam in India at all . Mrs . Gandhi said things that nobody in our government
- , that this was a meeting of people like Rusk and Acheson and others who were attending--and obviously on Vietnam. And he said he was sorry, after he had been there for about three-quarters of an hour, that he had to go back to this meeting upstairs. M: But your meeting
- Vietnam
- ; Samuelson Task Force; dinner for all Task Force chairmen; HHH; Vietnam; JFK assassination; LBJ kept informed on economic matters as VP; Arthur Okun; Gardner Ackley
- talked about the Vietnam situation; his wish to bring it to an end; his feeling that if he were in a political campaign his options would be limited in trying to get peace talks going. Secondly, he talked about the internal crisis and his--he didn't
- already talking about post-Vietnam back in those days. And things like that. But generally we stayed clear of getting involved in specific legislation. F: As long as you've brought the name up, what did you think of Wright Patman's grasp of economics
- ] Betancourt had been the big figure after Gallegos and he may be coming back as the next candidate. F: Did Vietnam become a real problem to you? B: Yes, yes. I think the governmental reaction was that although they understood our problem
- Vietnam
- ) with Ecuador; oil exploration in Ecuador; Peace Corps volunteers in Ecuador; Santa Domingo; Punra del Este Conference; Canadian vs. Venezuelan oil; effect of Vietnam War on Alliance for Progress; Inter-American Bank; U.S. business community in Venezuela
- histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh SHAPIRO -- I -- 19 S: Well, I think that there was a feeling that the Vietnam issue was hurting. I don't recall, when we had our meeting in Cincinnati at the Governors I Conference, whether
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- in disagreement with the Kennedy Administration's sale of wheat to the Soviet Union. Did he ever talk about that? N: No. I don't [recall it]. G: HO\'J about on Vietnam at the time he was vice president? He went to Vietnam once. N: Yes, he did. the staff
- Vietnam
- and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter
- monetary decisions were to be coordinated with fiscal decisions. M: Is the basic problem here the increased expenditure in the Vietnam War? G: Oh yes. This was the basic problem. This was the main source of the increased government spending which
- Vietnam
- Lady Bird has photos taken with Mrs. Post & her staff; Lady Bird back to White House; newspaper stories; LBJ to Hawaii for Vietnam talks; LBJ, Luci & Lyn to New York for installation of Archbishop; upcoming Austrian dinner; upcoming Texas trip
- Vietnam
- government positions; reaction to Kerner Commission report; MLK; Vietnam War criticized by black people; innate compassionate nature of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
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- as vice president. F: What were your duties primarily? A: At that time I worked most specifically with Mike Forrestal on then a little-discussed part of the world known as Southeast Asia. We did a good deal relating to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
- required. For instance, wnen Kennedy sent him out to Vietnam and he came back with that very belligerent recommendation. Now that was an example of it. Kennedy didn't have to send him to Vietnam, but that was becoming a problem, and it would
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- Vietnam
- ; assassination; 1964 Vice Presidential contest; HHH; LBJ's legislative ability; Walter Jenkins; Vietnam; O'Donnell's resignation; decision not to run again; 1968 Democratic convention; Czechoslovakia invasion; peace plank
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- this--that he did make a contribution to the nation that the people approved and appreciated. I think certainly he was frustrated that he did not get to accomplish all, and the Vietnam War was a tragedy that if it hadn't happened, he certainly would have been
- Vietnam
- Observations of the Majority Leadership period and White House years; civil rights legislation of 1957 and 1960; LBJ’s religious views; LBJ’s generosity; The Elms; Vietnam; JFK’s assassination; Bobby Baker
- . ferent kind of thing . But that was a dif Now, if we had had a different set of circum stances, if Vietnam and other things hadn't done what they did, I might have been talking to him last fall . But that isn't the way the ball bounces, and you
- seldon far as did h e ) ::;:3.t. , I else, T: ", effect and I, like almost everybody the view that it was just going to relate to Vietn am--and ,c, only to Vietnam. held a that speech to,} S['"~'7 ",(~ ""-'''. I rerr,(?nber that on Sat 'r-day
- Vietnam
- help bring an end to the war in Vietnam; LBJ’s interest in reactions; Governor Rockefeller; MLK assassination and the subsequent Washington riots; the process by which a President can get the help of federal troops; D.C. Mayor Water Washington; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- years he was President. The confidence he has reposed in the key people he has appointed has been justified. Then on the other hand, we've had the Vietnam situation which detracted from these needed domestic programs, which focused attention and minds
- was running a little surplus, and he had lots of money for the Great Needless to say, the economic program, the Society programs. Great Society programs and the reputation of Lyndon Johnson all went to hell in a hand basket as a result of Vietnam. a great
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- . They were all there together many times at various things like this, as well as taking on missions for him. I remember Whitney Young went to Vietnam and did a very significant kind of report. You see, in the offshoots of these continuing kinds
- Vietnam
- Pat Nugent leaving for Vietnam; Lady Bird to San Antonio & Corpus Christi; poverty bills up for vote; Lady Bird is interviewed by Isabel Shelton; buses to Padre Island with foreign press & Park Service staff; Lady Bird gives speech; fish fry
- Vietnam
- halt in Vietnam; everyone, including LBJ return to White House for drinks and light dinner; Lady Bird talks with McGeorge Bundy about LBJ
- ~ because of the Vietnam situation. I think that Johnson did just exactly the right thing to help Humphrey. He did everything Humphrey asked him to do. no more, nor any less. He did He wanted to help Hubert Humphrey be elected president of the United
- . He apparently had unlimited time to try to solve these problems. B: Would he also talk to you about things beyond the problems of the cities, Vietnam and his other activities? A: Well, [in] one of our first visits to the White House after he came
- on Sirhan. It highlighted the fact that Kennedy opposed the war in Vietnam but was for full assistance to Israel. Two hotel employees were the first to reach the assailant and subdue him, They were assisted by athletes Roosevelt Grier and Raf er Johnson
- /oh Reynolds -- II -- 6 and Ohio and the Santa Fe, and that did affect military shipments to Vietnam. R: Yes. But again, we were able to minimize the impact of that fairly promptly, as I recall it. It was a so-called selective strike of a few
- : They were pretty good friends up until then, up until the Vietnam LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
- , then reads Louis Auchinclass book, Brownstone Front; LBJ meets with foreign policy advisers about Vietnam; Poverty Bill passes; Adlai Stevenson; Arthur Schlesinger book
- Vietnam
- ; Estes Kefauver; Paul Douglass; Federal Reserve Board under LBJ; 1960 convention; JFK at Texarkana; assassination; Andrew Brimmer; Rayburn Building; Federal Services Finance Company; CIA involvement with foundations; 1968 election; Vietnam War; civil
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
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- to take. LBJ insisted it was Rusk who said first to stop the Vietnam bombing. I think I've never seen Johnson more moved or really a more lovely, gentler send-off than the two nights before Johnson left town at the party for Dean Rusk. Johnson gave