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Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos. In those instances, military assistance has been transferred from the Foreign Assistance Act to the Department of Defense budget. I think that's appropriate because I don't think the military LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Vietnam
  • Military Assistance Program; American foreign policy; Vietnam; national security; disarmament; ABM; defense policies
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • overseas trip I took was in the spring of 1967--1 believe it was April--when I went to Japan and the Philippines and Vietnam and Thailand, again strictly on Air Force business. M: Mr. Paul, how do you relate your first two Defense positions in OSD
  • Vietnam
  • Early government positions Paul held before becoming Assistant Secretary of Defense; his views of LBJ’s decisions relating to Vietnam; availability and suitability of various planes and equipment; budgetary items; training of personnel; military
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, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nitze -- I -- 5 P: Have there been times of major events related perhaps to the war, or decisions to be made regarding the war in Vietnam, or other crisis areas that developed in the world that you have been
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that they were matters that were above and beyond anything that's going on in Vietnam at the present time . M: Now, in your job here, you apparently have dealt with a variety of problems . Apparently this office cuts across the whole executive branch; you deal