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Telephone conversation # 12822, transcript, MARVIN WATSON and RICHARD DALEY, 3/18/1968, 5:15PM (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • WATSON ASKS FOR DALEY'S EVALUATION OF BEN HEINEMAN AS POSSIBLE APPOINTEE TO CABINET OR SUBCABINET POSITION; DALEY RECOMMENDS HEINEMAN; WATSON DISCUSSES PRESS STORIES ABOUT RFK'S CALL FOR COMMISSION TO REAPPRAISE VIETNAM POLICY
Telephone conversation # 13618, transcripts, CONFERENCE CALL (with LBJ), 10/31/1968, 6:05PM (Item)
  • of That position mainly is this: We're anxious to stop the bombing and would be willing to stop the bombing IF they -­ Hanoi -- would sit down with us, with the C . ·r3 rnment of South Vietnam present and have productive discussion:3. We have told them that we
  • Vietnam
  • LBJ REVIEWS RECENT PEACE NEGOTIATIONS, DISCUSSES PROBLEMS CREATED BY SPEECHES AND UNAUTHORIZED CONTACTS WITH SOUTH VIETNAM, SAYS HE WILL ISSUE ORDER TONIGHT TO STOP ALL BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM AND WILL SET DATE FOR PEACE TALKS THAT INCLUDE SOUTH
Telephone conversation # 12514, transcript, LBJ and OFFICE CONVERSATION, 12/6/1967, 2:35 PM (Item)
  • As far as the UN is concerned, you have given me 100% support. I understand that there are other advisers £or other subjects, such as Vietnam. You are the President and you are the one who must make the decisions. p You're not trying to build a case
  • Vietnam
Folder, "[November 11, 1968 - 3:00 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors and President-Elect Nixon]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • of State and Defense would brief him on Vietnam. Secretary Rusk would also touch on problems in other areas. General Wheeler y;as available to deai with the military situation; and Mr. Helms would contribute intelligence data and make arrangements
  • Vietnam
Telephone conversation # 13511, transcript, WALT ROSTOW and DEAN RUSK, 10/2/1968, time unknown (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • ROSTOW SUMMARIZES HIS CONVERSATION WITH DEAN RUSK, WRITES THAT RUSK IS SENDING DETAILED REPORT ON HIS MEETING WITH ANDREI GROMYKO TO WH VIA COURIER; ROSTOW WRITES BRIEF SUMMARY OF RUSK AND GROMYKO'S DISCUSSION OF VIETNAM, MISSILE TALKS, AND MIDDLE
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 1961 shortly after he became vice president, and were on the Policy Planning Council. J: Yes, in August, 1961. M: And you were in that position when you went to Vietnam for the first time. Is that correct, about 1961? J: Yes. M: Mr. Johnson
  • Vietnam
  • Professional background; Jordan’s two trips to Vietnam; report that the North Vietnamese threat was serious; Kennedy’s 1961-1963 decision to escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam; Jorden’s belief that Kennedy would have followed LBJ course in Vietnam
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
Telephone conversation # 13138, transcript, LBJ and EDWIN WEISL, SR., 6/25/1968, 1:05PM (Item)
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • television program and I was just watching, sitting there, he was being pressed pr.etty hard about Vietnam and at that time the Dominican Republic, and it was fairly obvious that he was not in sympathy with the Administration's approach on either
  • Vietnam
  • during early years as president; complaints from LBJ about Abel’s Vietnam War comments; reactions of press representatives to events in Vietnam; concern of Dean Rusk about British government’s role in SEATO; dissent of State and Defense mid-level people
Telephone conversation # 13619, transcripts, CONFERENCE CALL (with LBJ), 10/31/1968, 6:28PM (Item)
  • they might agree to allow Govern­ ment of Vietnam -- which we had demanded -- to come and stay in the meeting. understand that We told them that they would have to tvN would have to be there and we could not have a productive meeting, as I had outlined
  • Vietnam
  • LBJ REVIEWS RECENT VIETNAM PEACE NEGOTIATIONS, SAYS HE WILL MAKE STATEMENT TONIGHT THAT HE IS STOPPING ALL BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM AND THAT PEACE TALKS THAT INCLUDE SOUTH VIETNAM WILL BEGIN PROMPTLY, DISCUSSES UNAUTHORIZED CONTACTS WITH SOUTH
Telephone conversation # 12816, transcript, LBJ and RICHARD DALEY, 3/14/1968, 5:57PM (Item)
  • for a complete re- evaluation of what we have done in Vietnam and it amounted to an admission that we were changing our course and we were in error out there.' We told them we couldn't do..that because it would be a repudiation of all of our men, the President
  • Vietnam
  • MONETARY CRISIS; CLARK CLIFFORD'S MEETING WITH RFK TODAY; RFK'S DEMAND FOR REAPPRAISAL OF VIETNAM POLICY; DEAN ACHESON'S ADVICE TO LBJ; DALEY SUGGESTS LBJ APPOINT HIS OWN COMMITTEE TO STUDY POLICY; RFK'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY; NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • not covered all your meetings with Mr. Johnson. I didn't want to overlook these because I think that they have had some important bearing on your relationship with him and a trip to Vietnam was included in this area. bit about these? Could you tell me
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; career; meeting with LBJ; Trust Territory; U.S. relationship with Eastern European countries; NATO; MLF; Vietnam War; Arthur Goldberg; Middle East crisis; Dean Rusk; women as diplomats; trip to VN; 1968 campaign; Johnson
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; career; meeting with LBJ; Trust Territory; U.S. relationship with Eastern European countries; NATO; MLF; Vietnam War; Arthur Goldberg; Middle East crisis; Dean Rusk; women as diplomats; trip to VN; 1968 campaign; Johnson
Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 21-24]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • in Vietnam. I said it seemedto me that the North Vietnamesewere nowmakfngan all-out effort and I expected this effort to be continued up to the maximum of their capabilities. If in their estimate, their reading of the situation, the South Vietnamesehad
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was in the Territory--the Vietnam War had heated up, and I think that I would have liked to go on to Vietnam. I wanted to at that time, but this would have meant probably another week or so of travel and, also, I was aware that there were so many people going
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; career; meeting with LBJ; Trust Territory; U.S. relationship with Eastern European countries; NATO; MLF; Vietnam War; Arthur Goldberg; Middle East crisis; Dean Rusk; women as diplomats; trip to VN; 1968 campaign; Johnson
Telephone conversation # 12104, transcript, LBJ and RAY BLISS, 8/23/1967, 10:30AM (Item)
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , "I'm going to make you my man on the other war in Vietnam." But in the period before [this] I guess my service with President Johnson falls very easily into these two groups: my service in the Bundy office and then gratefully as Bundy's acting
  • Vietnam
  • opinions to negotiate better politically; summarizing State Department briefings on foreign visitors for LBJ; problems between India and Pakistan; getting involved with Vietnam; the December1965 37-day bombing halt; George Ball and the Cyprus situation; LBJ
Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , including the question of security in the Far East. I remember Rusk used to ask them, "the question is not whether you support the United States in Vietnam, the question support~the is what kind of world out there would be in your own security interest
  • Vietnam
  • ; feeling of NATO countries; European Allies and Vietnam War; McNamara’s speech regarding the ABM system; Czechoslovakia crisis; German problem; LBJ’s relationship with Kissinger; LBJ as a personal diplomat; Most-Favored Nation treatment; East-West Trade
Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Obviously, he was, in the sense that the countryls capabilities were concentrated to so large a degree on Vietnam, but he saw a great number of official visitors from Europe. He was very intimately involved in NATO questions when they came up, even during
Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 11-20]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • Asia or this little of territory sliver of Vietnam, but the costs of losing in tenns of our world-wide position are such that, as an Americanwhose interest is and must be to protect the interests of the United States, I cannot cometo any other con­
  • Vietnam
Folder, "NSAM # 341: The Direction, Coordination and Supervision of Interdepartmental Activities Overseas, 3/2/1966, [1 of 2]" National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 7 (Item)
  • is responsible when things go wrong. In that sense, I think it would tend to relieve the burden. [Q.] General, could we be a little more specific about how it will work out by using Vietnam as an example, and accepting the paren­ thetical note that this exempts
Telephone conversation # 12106, transcript, LBJ and WILLIAM GUY, 8/25/1967, 12:50PM (Item)
  • Vietnam
Folder, "C.F.- CO 151 Korea - 1964, 1965, 1966," WHCF Confidential Files, Box 10 (Item)
Folder, "NSAM # 341: The Direction, Coordination and Supervision of Interdepartmental Activities Overseas, 3/2/1966, [2 of 2]" National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 7 (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] him, they felt confident with him. anybody's judgment. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh There was no Vietnam to cloud Johnson was showing himself
Folder, "C.F.- CO 151 Korea - 1967, 1968," WHCF Confidential Files, Box 10 (Item)
  • attachments o~ titi - BE a 3) re Vietnam- (SECRET) FIL E LOCA TI ON C.F. CO 151 Korea (1967-68) RESTRICT ION CODES (A) C l osed by Executive Order I 1 652 gove rn ing access to na tional securi ty i nfor ma t ion. (B) Closed by sta t ute or by the agency
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • Simbel; Cyprus issue; CENTO; Eisenhower Doctrine; Vietnam; India-Pakistan War; LBJ's speech for advice on foreign policy matters and his diplomatic performances; Richard Rovere; John Leocacos; The Establishment; personal and private papers
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • Simbel; Cyprus issue; CENTO; Eisenhower Doctrine; Vietnam; India-Pakistan War; LBJ's speech for advice on foreign policy matters and his diplomatic performances; Richard Rovere; John Leocacos; The Establishment; personal and private papers
Folder, "NSAM # 281: National Policy Paper Series, 2/11/1964," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 2 (Item)
  • of the ,failure o1 our np1austt; e.s., suppose we don't get MLF? Suppose there ·1 s a complete breakdow.n in our attempts to --- ---isolate Cuba? ~uppose we are confronted with a c0tnplete collapse of the will-to-f iiiit in south Vietnam? Some •-worst . case 0
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/1/1968 (Monday) (Item)
  • Vietnam
Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 1-10]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • Johnson. This is March 19, 1965. I am sitting here in my residence in Saigon, Vietnam this evening after dinner and am undertaki.ng an experiment which I hope will be of interest and use to my grandchildren. I am not quite sure how far I will get
  • Vietnam
Folder, "A Report and Related Paper re: VP Johnson's Trip to Germany," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 2 (Item)
Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 25-30]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • Vietnam
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/25/1967 (Sunday) (Item)
  • Vietnam
Folder, "Travel – Foreign – Berlin (Pro) [August] [2 of 2]," 1961 Subject Files, VP Papers, Box 109 (Item)