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Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Administration was as minister-counselor for public information in the American ·' Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam. But prior to that, you had been I believe deputy public affairs officer in India for several years and had spent some time with the Voice
  • Vietnam
  • Assignment to Saigon; Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge acts as his own press officer; Vietnam press relations an issue at the Honolulu conference of 1964; unifying press relations functions in JUSPAO; the maximum candor policy; origin of the "Five
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • minor things, that got him into credibility problems. He created some credibility problems for himself. It wasn't the war in Vietnam or--was to a certain degree, but it was mostly little stuff where he would in consternation, or angry [anger
  • Vietnam
  • ; John Kenneth Galbraith writing a speech for LBJ; LBJ's displeasure with a speech Middleton wrote about Vietnam; trying to find LBJ's personality reflected in the Library's documents; how LBJ being a great legislator lost support for Vietnam; how
Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • was deciding what to do about Vietnam, changing his . views on Vietnam. lesson I ever le~rned from him, the thing he probably else . • . when he had a meeti~g and it would be over More often the greatest ~aid ~nd more than anything we would be staying