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Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was [Commander Herbert L.] Ogier, I believe that's correct--what did they know about the South Vietnamese operations? Were they told, "Don't go near here on such-and-such a day, you may get mixed up in something," something to that effect? M: No, I don't think

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

order of battle, the official MACV order of battle disappeared. There's nobody left. This is reflected, and I now believe quite accurately, in Herbert Schandler's book called The Unmaking of a President. And I'm now going to paraphrase a quote which

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 4, Tabs N-Z and AA-KK," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 48 (Item)

". -- precinct by precinct, block by block, house by house, and farm by :farm. It should be as hard to move from one precinct to another or from one village to another in South Viet-Nam as it is ) today in North Viet-Nam. All this should mean fewer U

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 5, Tabs A-Z and AA-II," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 48 (Item)

of the combined intelligence staff predicts that this will be abhorrent to the public and will cause a strong reaction against the Viet Cong. Fighting is still going on in Hue as both US and ARVN forces maneuver to block any retreat from the citadel area. The AR

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 3, Tabs RR-ZZ and a-d [2 of 2]," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 47 (Item)

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)

province towns could have been overrun. The second surprise I had was that we came very close to losing Tan Son Nhut Air Base. It was touch and go there. This attack was blocked by battalions coming in and hitting the enemy from the rear. It was closeo

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

felt very strongly we should have mined Haiphong harbor at a time when it was not used very often, and therefore ships that would have entered subsequently would have been coming in at their own risk, rather than having them already in and blocking them

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

-- I -- 26 D: That high stuff ~"as a CIA province. They kept me informed and as a matter of fact on one occasion borrowed some specialized equipment to try to pin this guy within a given block. somewhere. They knew he was in there And I've heard

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol 7, Meeting Notes," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)

Folder, "The President's file for Korea, Vietnam (Briefings)," Files of Walt Rostow, NSF, Box 10 (Item)

at the close of last session), the Administration should anticipate that these maneuvers might be successful. In his opinion, the best chance of blocking the quota bills would be if the Senate loaded on so many amendments that the House conferees would have

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 3, Tabs RR-ZZ and a-d [1 of 2]," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 47 (Item)

an "all out invasion" of South Vietnam, putting sufficient manpower into the effort to try to ensure that allied forces cannot block Communist occupation of at least the far northern provinces. Hanoi might be acting either from a belief that the allies

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 8, Excerpts and Taylor's Memo," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 5, Tabs JJ-TT and CIA Memos," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 48 (Item)

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 2, Tabs aa-vv," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 47 (Item)

~portantly, h~ e.l:10 c-:.m:sidern that its occupation has blocked the route or enemy ativnnee into Qu.!ln~Tri and b:u; k~pt the fl~U.n~ away f~ the populat,ed co.nstal belt of I Corps. Hl'l c~nceda~ tt.at Khe Sanh has n~t had much effect· on in.filtration

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol 7, Meeting Group Papers," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)

of cc~ssion, to· Hanoi. 17. trouble on blocking the Canal case., lightering its is 1,foscow's the risk·of lessen Maritime,which would only prevent question in maintaining this at Haiphong would be armed with AAAin these circuastances

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 4, Tabs C-M," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 48 (Item)

AND TO RE-ESTABLISH GVN PRESENCE IN OUTLYING AREAS. THE FIRST TASK, EOWEVER, IS TO CLEAR ENEMY FORCES FROM AROUND CI TIES; THEN A GENERAL QfitENSIVE ·TO CLEAR OUT VC BASE AREAS A}lD ·BLOCK INFILT?..ATION AND SU??LY ROUTES FROI1 CAt1BODIA

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 4, Tabs LL-ZZ and a-z," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 48 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and the story of how he was prevented from getting off of the plane with the Kennedy casket is known. I was not witness to it because I was in the forward part of the plane at the time, but I do know the aisle was blocked. And, again, this was the Kennedy

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 3, Tabs A-Z and AA-QQ," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 47 (Item)