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- 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
- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- , 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
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- 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
- 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
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- /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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
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- ; 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
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- , 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
- 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
- , 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
- ] 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
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
- 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, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- ; 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
- 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
- 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
- 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