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- Vietnam
- Bird mentions Selma, Alabama, and Vietnam; Lady Bird meets with architect about changes to White House; Luci is queen of Azaela Festival; Lynda's birthday party is a Georgetown City Tavern
- 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.
5
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
- in society and that busi
nes!>prospered. Business had confidence in him. by and
large. and labor had confidence in him.
Nowadays. a lot of people who want to forget every
thing except Vietnam. or everything except civil rights. or
whatever their favorite
- Leaders' Criticism
of the Vietnam War"; George Cas
tile, "LBJ, The O.E.O. and the Na
tive Americans"; John Duffield,
'"The U.S. and the Evolution of
NATO's Conventional Force Pos
ture"; John Dumbrell, "Congress,
The Vietnam War and the Anti-War
Movement
- led the
troops in Vietnam, keynoted both
the exhibition and the symposium
with an illustrated lecture setting
forth the history of the Korean War.
2
Images From a Forgotten War
The exhibition tells the story of the
war with documents, photographs
- and Eleanor Clift
blamed "Vietnam and Watergate" for
some of the change. "Reporters were
lied to enough times," Eleanor Clift
said, "that they have absolutely zero
trust in what they are hearing." But
also, she said, "the society has
changed ... The interests
- most everyone thought
impossible."
The "triumph" of the book's title
refers. of course, to Johnson's domes
tic achievements. The "tragedy''
relates to LBJ and Vietnam: "No mat
ter how Lyndon Johnson mustered his
persuasive powers, he could not com
- of the
remote White House, spending
roughly a quarter of his presi
dency plotting his Great Society
legislation and America's i.nvolve
ment in the Vietnam War from an
office there filled with phones
and decorated with paintings of
his favorite dogs.
The office
- Vietnam
- Lynda Robb returns from California seeing Chuck off to Vietnam; LBJ's speech on Vietnam; LBJ goes to church with Luci & Pat Nugent; LBJ visits with Hubert & Muriel Humphrey; Lady Bird's "See America" trip; Horace Busby & Lady Bird work on LBJ's
- to help defray travel and living
expenses for researchers using the
Library's resources.
Those receiving grants-in-aid and
the titles of their proposed subjects
are: David L. Anderson, "Minority
Military Service in the Vietnam War";
John A. Andrew, III
- and
informative.
From left to right: Robert Di ine, Elspeth Rostow, George Christian
3
Perhaps inevitably, much of the
discussion centered around Vietnam.
Dallek 's position is that in the con
text of the times, President Johnson
could not have avoided
- Vietnam
- South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu refuses Paris peace talks; LBJ not sleeping well; Johnsons, staff & guests to St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church and Trinity Lutheran Church services; Harry Middleton interviews candidates for LBJ Library
- Vietnam
- LBJ on phone with McGeorge Bundy about foreign problems; LBJ meets with Dale Malechek about LBJ Ranch; lunch with staff, helicopter to Bergstrom and flight to DC; LBJ talks with press pool about Vietnam; Foreign Aid Bill; stop in Columbia, SC
- Vietnam
- leave Nazi Germany; dinner party at the Arthur Goldberg's; protesters outside hotel on Vietnam and Dominican Republic policy; Lady Bird talks with Cardinal Spellman about LBJ Library
- on the crucial legislation going to Congress.
Twenty years ago this weekend the President took his key
national security advisers to Camp David. and when they
returned he said that he was going to give the men, the
commanders in Vietnam what they needed
- of the
arine
orps from 178,000 active-duty personnel to
nearly 300,000 at the height of th Vietnam
War. A 1930 graduate of the Naval Acad my,
he gained a reputation as a brilliant staff officer
and planner. He became Chief of Staff of the
Marine Corps in 1960
- and the voices of people who
knew and worked with him.
(top) Museum staff m mbcrs
add the finishing t uches to a
display.
(right) The new exhibit on
Vietnam shows the visitor the
documents the president saw when
he made his critical decisions.
It is possible
- Vietnam
- ; meeting with Harry Ransom & Frank Erwin about University of Texas, Wayne Grover & LBJ Library; first time LBJ has been guest at Luci's table; Pat Nugent coming home from Vietnam; Nugents will vacation in Formosa; Johnsons spend night at KTBC
- to combine research satisfac
tory to s holars with a felicity of style which will result in pop
ularity with the general public. One such prize may well be
awarde for a biography or the thirty-sixth president. The
Vietnam war, so complicated Lothose who
- Herring (University of Ken
There was general agreement with this. Said Strauss: "It's
tucky), th Vietnam War; Walter LaFeber (Cornell Univer
ssential that we move toward a national consensus on some sity), Latin American Policy; Steven Lawson (University
- leadership in the handling of the Vietnam War.
It may have resulted from kgislation or executive regulation
going far too far, to excess in the penetration of our daily
lives
Whatever the cause, the political pendulum began to swing
back from the heyday
- development: the
Great Society and the Vietnam War.
The Great Society must be
viewed as part of the larger reform
impulse which began just after the
tum of the century with the pro
gr ssive movement under the leader
ship of Presidents Theodore Roose
velt
- not do it
all.'' Bill Moyers agreed: •'We really
did try to do too much ... We erred also
in not anticipating what the war [in
Vietnam] would do to the energies of
the President and the passions of the
people and to the conflict in the very
soul
- ,
Australia, an Vietnam.
Conferences Slated for Spring
A confer nee jointly sponsored by the Library, the LBJ
School and the Brookings Institution, to be held February
12-13 in the Library, will examine the history of energy policy
in the United States
- . A team composed of
representatives
from the CIA,
Defense Intelligence Agency, Navy,
Air Force and LBJ Library scanned
some 92,000 pages from the
Vietnam Country File and sent 11
compact discs containing computer
ized images of those pages to
Washington
- ;
LBJ's visits to Vietnam, and the
Diary for March 31, l 968, the day
when
President
Johnson
announced he would not seek
another tem1. One of the Library's
h.igh st priorities and most talked
about current projects is the pro
ce. sing and release
- Vietnam
- Lady Bird rests, but LBJ does not; phone call about upcoming social events; Johnsons ride through ranches; lunch with Krims & Jonziers; Johnsons to Moursunds' ranch; Lady Bird gives items to Archives; gift from JFK; LBJ worries about Vietnam
- Vietnam
- Johnsons & guests to San Fernando Church in San Antonio for Latin American Ambassadors service; none of the Ambassadors attended; sermon on Vietnam; Johnsons to Balcones Research Center for meeting about LBJ Library stone; helicopter to Camp Mabry
- Vietnam
- Civil Rights Act of 1968 & gives speech; Lady Bird visits with Pat & Luci; Pat Nugent leaves for Vietnam; LBJ & departing Cabinet members gives speeches at reception; Lady Bird asks Bob McNamara to speak at LBJ Library; small dinner party
- Vietnam
- Valentine's Day; LBJ has medical exam; Luci Johnson and Pat Nugent's plans after wedding; LBJ is locating Jerry Nugent in Vietnam; Lady Bird does office work; Lady Bird attends American Heart Association luncheon and style show; Lady Bird attends
- Vietnam
- takes nap; Lynda Johnson visits New Orleans; guests for dinner; talk at dinner about LBJ School for Public Affairs and Vietnam; to theater to watch films
- : will
dhcovcr how seminal the 1960s re lly were··
And, of course, Vietnam. Already the literature on that amful
and itter ·ar is voluminous. hate\'er historians write about it in
the future, the story cannot 1.J
- . left over from the
Vietnam War and the societal strife of
the sixties. He had no mandate, having
garnered only 43 per cent of the popu
lar vote. Meanwhile. the rest of the
Author Blumenthal defends the Clinton record
Wars, his provocative memoir
- Vietnam
- Office work; recording in Jacqueline Kennedy Garden for Hudson Valley trip; Lady Bird with Lynda Robb to doctor's office; lunch with Lynda; Chuck Robb & Patrick Nugent in Vietnam; meeting about Beautification stamps; office work; Lady Bird works
- Vietnam
- Bombing halt in Vietnam; Mar-a-Lago becoming part of National Park Service; Lady Bird describes china for Preservation & Restoration luncheon; Lady Bird names speakers & guests; press are invited to speeches; Lady Bird gives remarks & introduces
- Vietnam
- Transcript mistakenly says, "Thursday" rather than "Tuesday." Poor sound quality. At 09:28, it should say "diet of Khe Sanh and Hue. [Vietnam]" instead of "tafon and whey"
- Vietnam
- some of the guests, the press, and the entertainment for the night; Lady Bird visits with Erhard about Germany; toasts; LBJ mentions Vietnam & Great Society in toast; visits with houseguests upstairs; Lady Bird introduces entertainers
- Vietnam
- ; Lady Bird to beauty parlor; LBJ meets with advisors about Vietnam; LBJ meets with and gives speech to White House Conference on Education participants; dinners with aides and James Hagerty; Lady Bird's tv show on beautification; Dwight Eisenhower
