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Telephone conversation # 334, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 12/7/1963, 12:55PM (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • RUSSELL COMPLAINS ABOUT SERVING ON WARREN COMMISSION; DISCUSSION OF MOVING MILITARY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FROM SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE TO ARMED SERVICES; RUSSELL'S OPPOSITION TO POLICY ON VIETNAM, LAOS; LBJ INVITES RUSSELL TO WH TO DISCUSS
Telephone conversation # 4314, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 7/23/1964, 10:50AM (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • LBJ DISCUSSES LACK OF PRESS COVERAGE OF YESTERDAY'S CABINET MEETING, WAYS TO IMPROVE COVERAGE, COVERAGE OF PEACE CORPS EVENT TODAY; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT INACCURATE PRESS STORIES ON WARREN COMMISSION REPORT, NORTH VIETNAM, PENTAGON PROJECTS, CUBA, NYC
Telephone conversation # 5802, sound recording, LBJ and HUBERT HUMPHREY, 10/1/1964, 9:46PM (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • HHH REPORTS ON CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES; IOWA, GEORGIA POLITICS; NIXON'S REMARKS ON VIETNAM; PRESIDENTIAL PROTECTION IN CAMPAIGN; CONGRESSIONAL RECESS, NOT ADJOURNMENT, TO SAVE MEDICARE BILL; ETHICS CHARGES AGAINST GOLDWATER, MILLER; BOBBY BAKER
Telephone conversation # 11405, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 1/25/1967, 7:45PM (Item)
  • Vietnam
Telephone conversation # 13409, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD DALEY, 9/7/1968, 10:14AM (Item)
  • Vietnam criticism
  • INVESTIGATION OF CHICAGO RIOTS DURING DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION; BIASED PRESS COVERAGE; BUGGING BY PRESS; COMMUNIST ROLE IN VIETNAM PROTESTS; RAMSEY CLARK'S VIEWS OF RIOTS; ALLEGATIONS OF POLICE BRUTALITY; POSSIBLE USE OF OEO FUNDS
Telephone conversation # 11556, sound recording, LBJ and RAMSEY CLARK, 2/20/1967, 9:40AM (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • JIM GARRISON INVESTIGATION OF JFK ASSASSINATION; HALE BOGGS' COMMENTS; DREW PEARSON'S REPORT OF CIA'S ROLE IN EFFORTS TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO; ALLEGED WIRETAPS OF JIMMY HOFFA'S LAWYERS; CLARK REPORTS ON MIDWEST ATTITUDES ON VIETNAM, CIA, CRIME
Telephone conversation # 11612, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN CONNALLY, 3/2/1967, 9:22PM (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • ON VIETNAM
Memo for Record re South Vietnam Situation, 11/25/63 (Item)
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975
  • Memo for Record re South Vietnam Situation, 11/25/63
Telephone conversation # 11240, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 12/31/1966, 8:23AM (Item)
  • Vietnam criticism
  • US PROSPERITY; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT ABE RIBICOFF HEARINGS, CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET CUTS, SARGENT SHRIVER; EFFECT OF BLACK POWER ON RECENT ELECTIONS; NEED TO INCREASE TAXES; HARRISON SALISBURY ARTICLES ON CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN VIETNAM; WILLIAM
Telephone conversation # 11113, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 12/5/1966, 10:46AM (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • PRESS STORY ON STATE DEPT; LBJ'S ADVICE ON PREPARING FOR WILLIAM FULBRIGHT'S HEARINGS; PURCHASES FOR UK AND TRILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS; NEED FOR MULTILATERAL FOOD AID FOR INDIA; U THANT AND VIETNAM PEACE EFFORTS; WILLIAM MANCHESTER BOOK ON JFK
Telephone conversation # 11160, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT KINTNER, 12/20/1966, 7:57AM (Item)
  • "WASHINGTON"; TV NEWS ABOUT VIETNAM, FEDERAL BUDGET AUDIBLE IN BACKGROUND AT TIMES; CONTINUES FROM 2 PREVIOUS RECORDINGS; PREVIOUSLY OPENED IN PART ON TAPE K66.01, PNO 9
  • Vietnam
Folder, "[June 11, 1968 - Leadership Breakfast]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • and the situation in South Vietnam and pointed out that the effort of the enemy was to overthrow the South Vietnamese Government. The President discussed the Tax Bill Conference Report and the progress of the House count on it. Boggs mentioned seeing the picture
  • Vietnam
Telephone conversation # 11206, sound recording, LBJ and BILL MOYERS, 12/26/1966, 10:17AM (Item)
  • Vietnam criticism
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in Vietnam and Indochina? 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Helms -- II -- 3
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; CIA in Vietnam and Indochina; structure of the CIA; Bay of Pigs; the “secret war” in Laos; disputes on the role of the CIA; Edward Lansdale; Taylor-Rostow mission to Vietnam; “How to Lose a War;” debate over Diem; Diem’s
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • rapidly at that time; then much connection between Libya and the Arab-Israeli problem. Of course, the Six Day War didn't happen until after I had switched over to Vietnam, so what Libya did in that connection I don't know. They broke relations with us
  • Vietnam
  • ; differences between Walt Rostow and McGeorge Bundy; Komer taking charge of Vietnam issues as Special Assistant to the President; the quasi-military character of “the other war” in Vietnam vs. pacification; unifying the management of the war; using the term
Telephone conversation # 5606, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 9/18/1964, 7:54PM (Item)
  • Vietnam
Telephone conversation # 10655, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM (Item)
  • Vietnam criticism
Telephone conversation # 12908, sound recording, LBJ and IVAN ALLEN, 4/4/1968, 11:00PM (Item)
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of the better elements of the experience in the Philippines and in Vietnam--the early experience--and see if civilian-military teams couldn't be recruited, trained, organized, and sent out to work in the villages, to help the villagers. This is basically what I
  • Vietnam
  • Phillips’ work in Laos; getting involved with the AID mission in Vietnam; reorganizing AID in relation to its rural efforts; a strategic hamlet program; organizational problems in the U.S. military approach in Vietnam; working with what
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for, in our phrase, sizing him up. F: You found the two of you could work together. M: Oh, yes. F: At this time the war in Vietnam had not heated up so much, and yet Australia of course has been our chief ally in the war. M: Yes. F: Did you feel any
  • Vietnam
  • Contacts with LBJ; assassination of JFK; relations with U.S. cabinet members; Vietnam War; import curbs on Australian meat; problems of Australian economic development in 1965; relationship with the United States and five U.S. Presidents
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE INTERVIEWER: Ted PLACE: JACOBSON Gittinger Colonel Jacobson's residence, Reston, Virginia Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: All right, sir. Why don't we begin with 1954? How did you get selected for that duty in Vietnam? J: Well
  • Vietnam
  • an overview of Jacobson's military career 1954-1975; Jacobson's opinion of Ed Lansdale, General John W. "Iron Mike" O'Daniel and General Samuel T. Williams; Williams' abilities as a diplomat in Vietnam; comparing Generals O'Daniel, Williams, Lionel
Memo, Smith to Bundy, 12/4/63 (Item)
  • of maintaining their alert status. For example, CINCPAC forces in Vietnam have been and continue to be in DEFCON III. No recent have been requests made. for information on this subject The DEFCON definitions are classified, but reference has been made
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM J. CONNELL INTERVIEWER: Ted Gitt i nger PLACE: Mr. Connell's office, Bethesda, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Connell, were you able to follow the evolution of Mr. [Hubert] Humphrey's thinking on Vietnam as the years passed? C: Yes
  • Vietnam
  • Duties with Humphrey; foreign policy assistants; development of Humphrey's thinking on Vietnam; Humphrey's interest in arms control; Food for Peace; the development of democratic institutions; health research; civil rights; NATP; founding
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Flott -- II -- 7 instinctively resented the American pre-eminence in Vietnam, which had been their turf. In an emotional way they resented it. Now, to carry that to say the French government was planning coups is, I think
  • Vietnam
  • Returning to Saigon following the JFK assassination; Robert McNamara’s December 1963 visit to Vietnam; January 1964 Khanh coup and alleged French involvement; what the French might have wished for Vietnam; Christmas 1964 in Dalat; Tran Van Don; Le
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIWEE: GENERAL SAMUEL T. WILLIAMS INTERVlp·1ER: TED GITTINGER PLACE: General Williams' residence, San Antonio, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: General Williams, what had been your assignments in the four or five years prior to your going to Vietnam
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; history of U.S. activities in South Vietnam; assignment to Vietnam; Korea; Kumsong salient; Mike O’Daniel; MAAG in Vietnam; 1955 relations with the French; Edward Lansdale; early political-military situation; religious
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • blurred in my mind. F: Authority sources are much better sources than I am for that. There were also in '63 rumors of a policy rift in Vietnam between Ambassador Lodge and the CIA chief in Vietnam. Can you lend credence to that, or is this again
  • Vietnam
  • ; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and between me and t;loyers on all this. I said it in diplomatic ways. After the '64 election, before he went off so hard on Vietnam, I was involved for a while trying to talk about the next four years and exactly this problem. Moyers I thought had come
  • Vietnam
  • nomination for LBJ; Vietnam; Laotian compromise; JFK’s assassination; LBJ in the White House; détente; lost opportunity to go down in history as a great man.
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , this was the first general legislation in which those words Col~:bia, were used at the federal level. B: Did you ever try in Congress in '64 and again in '66 when PL-480 was being extended to remove those limitations on aid to countries trading with North Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was one of those newsmen that never did take a hard-and-fast dovish stand and I still support him in great measure on the Vietnam War issue. I never faulted him completely on that and I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • Vietnam
  • ; reputation as a hawk in Vietnam erroneous; Robert Kintner; rivalry between RFK and LBJ; Presidential press secretaries; LBJ seeking professional advice on TV style; conscious of Texas twang; Barry Goldwater; George Wallace; 3/31 speech; evaluation of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • Katzenbach as attorney general; presidents’ interaction with the State Department; May 1966 trip to Chicago; LBJ’s opinions of the U.S. role in Vietnam; LBJ’s assessment of his own staff; Tonkin Gulf resolution; Lindley Rule and press access to LBJ
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • became chairman of the Governors Conference and would make every statement about Vietnam that Johnson asked him to make. Ranch and so forth. And Johnson used to bring him down to the But this was the first time he'd ever met him. He LBJ Presidential
  • Vietnam
  • relationship with the press; Hugh Sidey; LBJ’s fondness for neatness and 'experts'; Peter Lisagor; Bill Moyers as press secretary; James Moyers; Merriman Smith; LBJ’s secrecy; LBJ’s first trip to Vietnam and the 1967 around the world trip; LBJ meeting wounded
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • knowledge and judgment, but I can see how Lodge might quite honestly have had some concern--and of course, this was in July of 1963. I suppose it would be fair to say the State Department had not quite yet put in its first team on Vietnam. It did later
  • Vietnam
  • Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Vietnam. And like any mother, father and daughter, there was sadness, efforts at expressing hopefulness and that kind of thing. But in those days Lynda had a very volatile personality, and like many of us one and two-child families, we spoke to our
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • succeed the Presidency; comparison of Truman and LBJ’s preparedness on accession to Presidency; LBJ’s meetings with Congressman; Vietnam; legislation passed under LBJ; Larry O’Brien; 3/31 announcement; LBJ’s motives for withdrawing; LBJ’s weaknesses
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , or that he felt deeply needed to be done. And in most instances, for those first several, well, first fe\"1 years, he was successful. M: Do you have any opinion about his position on Vietnam versus or in relation to the congressional position on Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • helped a good deal, too. About that time, too, the escalation began in Vietnam. Obviously, that had a serious iQpact on the budgeting, but could you see in the budgeting process more and more involvement in Vietnam? 5: Oh, yes. [Yes, yes.] We saw
  • Vietnam
  • ; LBJ and the space program; Office of Economic Opportunity; the PPBS system; budgetary effects of Vietnam War; Defense Dept. and the budget; the power of the Budget Bureau; relationship between Budget Bureau directors and presidents; testifying before
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • ; LBJ’s attitudes about reporters and television networks; LBJ and Rather’s discussion upon Rather’s return from Vietnam; comments about Rostow’s Vietnam briefing; failure of military intelligence; Joint Chiefs of Staff conspiracy and Rostow’s involvement
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • ; relationship of LBJ and JFK; LBJ’s idea of his role as VP; effects of JFK assassination; consideration of dropping LBJ in 1964; LBJ’s VP selection; Vietnam War; assessments of LBJ; 3/31 announcement; LBJ’s training by professionals in public speaking and image
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • governors. I conferred with I went to Vietnam in 1965 with seven or eight But so far as confe·rri n9 with me specifi ca llyabout legislation and about what he should do, the advice and counsel that I offered to Lyndon Johnson \voul d be the same that I
  • Vietnam
  • 1960 Presidential campaign; supporting JFK; hunting with LBJ at the Ranch; the JFK assassination; the Civil Rights movement; Mrs. Johnson’s train trip in the South; Sanders’ political interactions with Richard Russell; Governors’ trip to Vietnam
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , if he had something of a general nature he would call me; and if he had something that affected one union, he would call the head of that union. Mu: The Vietnam War, for example, became quite an issue within labor apparently. Mr. Johnson didn't get
  • Vietnam
  • labor on Capitol Hill; LBJ’s appointments; sale of wheat to Russia; 1964 railroad strike; Labor Department; proposed merger of Labor and Commerce Departments; collective bargaining guidelines; 14-B; Vietnam War; served on JFK’s Clay Commission on Foreign