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Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , but I think I worked with seven different directors of information or ministers of information, depending on the title of the department in that particular government. A couple of those had been educated in the United States. Nguyen Ngoc Linh had been
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • been on Taiwan and who had been largely responsible for the success of the veterans' program in Taiwan. G: Was that part of AID? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • Vann; Wilfred Burchett; LBJ and advice on foreign affairs; 1966 elections in Vietnam; poor organization in American military in Vietnam; Francis 'Ted' Serong; the Tet offensive; 3/31/68 speech; El Salvador in 1982.
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a moment on one thing. Veteran newsmen have seen it all and presumably don't stampede easily. Was there a feeling among the White House press corps, widely expressed, that this may be the beginning of some sort of coup d'état or an attempted nationwide
  • Katzenbach as attorney general; presidents’ interaction with the State Department; May 1966 trip to Chicago; LBJ’s opinions of the U.S. role in Vietnam; LBJ’s assessment of his own staff; Tonkin Gulf resolution; Lindley Rule and press access to LBJ
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol 7, Meeting with the President and Draft Memo," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)
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Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol 7, Meeting Notes," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)
  • : other Committees should be invited. The House Foreign Affairs •Committee certainly should be included. The President: Well, it looks as if all of you have counseled, advised, consulted and then - - as usual - - placed the monkey on my back agairi. I
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 6, Bunker Reports," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 48 (Item)
  • and war:1.ed against a coal:tion gove:i:nrne:"lt. Arr.ong the pa2.·tic!.pants in the us emi!:a=ti were L-riflue~tial Sen2.tors Nguyen Gia Hien ana. Tran Van Lam. The Se~ate Foreigr.. Affairs Committee 0::1.January 24 heard Foreig!'l Mir.:.ister Do's views
Folder, "February 10, 1968 - 3:17 p.m. Senior Foreign Affairs Advisors - Rusk, McNamara, Clifford, Rostow, etc.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • '.1 FEBRUARY 10, 1968 - 3:17 p. m. SENIOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS ADVISORS Secretary Rusk Secretary McNamara Clark Clifford Walt Rostow Gec.rge Christian Tom Johnson X:!!l?O: MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON February 12, 1968 MEMORANDUM
  • Folder, "February 10, 1968 - 3:17 p.m. Senior Foreign Affairs Advisors - Rusk, McNamara, Clifford, Rostow, etc.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 3, Tabs RR-ZZ and a-d [2 of 2]," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 47 (Item)
  • 28 Feb 1968 1 ' Circular from Central Office for South Vietnam Current Affairs Committee and Military Affairs Committee of South Viet~ese Liberation Army H1e°a~as.tl:hrnslrl I DECL SSIFIED Authori'"y C!-11/dl-t-t!t>_ ~• By ~ ,i 1ill::,, Date 7
Folder, "February 28, 1968 - 8:35 a.m. Gen. Wheeler"s trip to Vietnam discussion with Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • missing, or wounded, or killed in action. General Wheeler: I have here a paper which was written on 31 January by the Military Affairs Committee and the Current Affairs Committee of the Liberation Army. We believe this document to be authentic. In ihth'e
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , let's go up and have lunch." The other thing that made it a notable occasion was that we went and had lunch in the second floor family dining room. And Ralph Dungan said to me after the lunch--it was a very friendly affair. He was very close
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was right in playing dumb with Orville Freeman and the State Department and myself. It was very educational. for me at any rate. M: Not just for him. K: Not just for him. shrewder than ours. It turned out that his instincts were much
  • ; the reputation of the National Security Council; being promoted to Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs; Francis Bator; filling in after McGeorge Bundy left his position in February/March of 1966; why McGeorge Bundy left his position as Special
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of policy toward Communist China. It was suggested that that speech be turned into an article for Foreign Affairs which I did do and Foreign Affairs agreed to publish the article, but the State Department decided that this would be a violation of the rule
Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it was not dealing directly with the President? McC: Walt Rostow. McS: Only Mr. Rostow? McC: He was the main one because he was his assistant for military affairs. Naturally, he ~as the one. anyone else, I believe. All of us worked with Walt more than LBJ
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and the ambassador in the public affairs field will be the director of USIS, naming me by name. overall authority had been given. First time that kind of Now that later went through some slight changes, but that combined authority for the press media relations
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • there was anything which I would call undue civilian interference in the conduct of the military affairs. But the bombing of North Vietnam was a different thing. It was moderately risky because we didn't know at the outset just how the Communist world would respond
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 1," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 47 (Item)
  • Compilation of Presidential Documents; - Memoran~a Memoranda VOLUME 9 consists for the President on public affairs. of records from of White General House Taylor; Press and Conferences. On Sunday - evening announced it was officially shortly
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • different names; at that time I think it was called the 303 Committee, and they changed the number sometimes, but it was representatives of the secretary of defense, and the adviser to the president on national security affairs, and a member I think from
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 8, Excerpts and Taylor's Memo," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)
  • Cot. JoHN A. MAY of S.C., Chief, Division of Outdoor Recreation and Wildlife, Wildlife Resources Department, State of South Carolina JOSEPH The Council consists of 10 members appointed by the President, in addition to the Secretary of Interior
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 2, Tabs aa-vv," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 47 (Item)
  • REASONS. INTERVIEWSldITH DEPARTING PE~SONNELARE NOT AUTHORIZED-NORMAL PHOTOGRAPHY PERMITTED- ADDITIONALPUBLIC AFFAIRS GUIDANCE WILL FOLLOWAS SOONAS AVAILABLE- GP-4 . . l . •• ~ l. 0 1.. No. :i Tc.R/Too r PAGE ~No._ oF~ ~~--------ill
Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and was interested in its communication process. I began to collect materials on it, and after about three years [IJ had a great filing cabinet full. So I asked the State Department to send me to MIT to do a book strictly on the NLF communication matrix
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with the Kennedy Administration, who either still worked for him or who were in the process of departing through this six or eight month period? Newspapermen, too, I suppose, who had been Kennedy loyalists? A: I don't know that--no, I don't think
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Department. The Wise Men, some thirteen in number, including ex-Justice Arthur Goldberg, were briefed by three people: Phil Habib, William DePuy, and George Carver. in the evening around a table. It took place And [I'll] skip Habib's and Carver's
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 4, Tabs N-Z and AA-KK," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 48 (Item)
  • = ~ODIS t • t' I ... DEPARTMENT OF STATE Washington, O.C. 20520 March 6, 1968 -----~ . ..... ... .,,.- ,., Dear Walt: .. . '" .. Enclosed is a letter and attachment for the President. W~tll warm regards, As ever yours, ~- I J)I
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • affairs, because the Secretary of State was there. pretty wide ranging conversation. So that it would be a It was from these meetings, I think that he derived the information that gave him the bases for many of the decisions that he took. M: Did
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 3, Tabs RR-ZZ and a-d [1 of 2]," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 47 (Item)
  • , the level _seems designed more to support sustained military operations by the forces now in place in the area. 21. Other evidence within the ORV, including propaganda pitch, covert titudes and activities, on the state of affairs the regime's domestic
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 3, Tabs A-Z and AA-QQ," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 47 (Item)
  • -- • ••-;¢ ..... •• • •w•,,I, - a Specla.l Assistant cc: Secretary McNamara Oeneral Wheeler General DoPuy Secretary R~sk Mr. Habib £01• Vietnam_esc Affairs . ·' • -. -- . . • DECLASSIFIED 7 1A~thority 77.s.c. ,;J - 7.:.. By _,;fl , NARS, Date (,. I I - 7
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , but these occasions were usually when matters of legislative or political nature were being discussed. Now, these luncheons were very interesting affairs because the range of problems discussed was not confined to the military at all, but went right across the full
Folder, "February 9, 1968 - 10:15 p.m. Senior Foreign Policy Advisors meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • to the White House, other Committees should be invited. The House Foreign Affairs Committee certainly should be included. The President: Well, it looks as if all of you have counseled, advised, consulted and then -- as usual -- placed the monkey on my back
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 8, Draft Memo for the President," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)
  • IN VIETNAM 3d Draft, 1 March EXCERPTS FROM OF PRESIDENTIAL GENERAL PUBLIC WEEKLY COMPILATION DOCUMENTS TAYLOR'S AFFAIRS MEMOS PAPERS \ ' rnraft Memorand~ 1for th':_ President_ I • / i i : f .. .. I I .. -- f ___ • __ l INFORMATION
Folder, "March 26, 1968 - 1:15 p.m. Foreign Policy Advisors Luncheon - regulars plus added group - Vietnam," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
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Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 5, Tabs JJ-TT and CIA Memos," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 48 (Item)