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Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh ROBERTS -- I -- 5 had ridden in maybe hundreds of presidential motorcades all over the world, and you hear backfires all the time. Motorcycles get hot when they travel at slow speed and they backfire, sometimes they even catch fire
  • had to LBJ; 1964 campaign; LBJ’s inability to announce travel plans in advance; LBJ choosing a running mate; LBJ lying to the press; comparison of LBJ’s press secretaries; the Walter Jenkins incident; off-the-record interviews; naming Nicholas
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 8, Excerpts and Taylor's Memo," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , interviewing soldiers in a hospital, Laotian . Some crazy American doctor said to me and my traveling companion, Tony Day, then of the Philadelphia Bulletin , "Well, you guys don't have an Embassy anymore in Saigon, said, "What are you talking about?" I He
Folder, "February 20, 1968 - 1:05 p.m. Tuesday luncheon with Rusk, McNamara, Wheeler, Helms, Rostow, Clifford," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • obvious contradictions. For example, if the log they gave out -- for it to be an accurate one -- the ship would have to be able to travel at twice the spee~ it is capable of moving. I believe the men are trying to give us a signal and indicate that they do
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the Seventh Fleet, we had repeatedly traveled, and so I was certainly somewhat amazed that these PT boats would attack a ship on the high seas as they did. Mc: Well, we had of course been effectively scuttling some of their naval ships in North Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , because the Maddox presented a far larger radar target than did the torpedo boats that had been involved in the thing. The Maddox was traveling perhaps one-half or less the speed that these boats always darted around at, so even an inexperienced radar
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • towards the end. McC: No. I didn't see any changes in his attitude towards that except a very, very intense attempt to get the Paris Peace Talks going. McS: Mr. Johnson had several occasions, both in his traveling abroad and here in the United States
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 4, Tabs LL-ZZ and a-z," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 48 (Item)
  • office in Phnom Penh (\vhich now has only one ofiice1·). Personnel of this office should be encouraged to do more travelling to Sihanouk­ ville and the frontier areas. We should be prepared, if necessary, to increase our payments for Australian
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 6, Bunker Reports," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 48 (Item)
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol 7, Meeting Group Papers," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 3, Tabs RR-ZZ and a-d [1 of 2]," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 47 (Item)
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 5, Tabs A-Z and AA-II," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 48 (Item)
  • the situation in hand. Sporadic sniper fire is expected today, with. some mortar fire to cover what police believe will be withdrawal of ;-emaining Viet Cong. The center of Saigon is now considered 80 percent safe for travel. The Cholon area is still unsafe
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol 7, Meeting with the President and Draft Memo," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)