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Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh WHEELER -- I -- 3 first time I had ever seen him in action, and I was very much struck by one characteristic which I saw him display thereafter on many occasions. Mainly, he insisted that if we decided

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the Vietnamese would be celebrating, and all the Americans would be sit ting around on leave or doing nothing . So on the eve of Tet, I went over to Laos, went to Vientiane, and I was up around Luang Prabang at an area where they'd had some recent action

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was the Chieu Hoi returns, although Chieu Hoi could be a result of a military action, military pressure, as much as psychological operations. But psychological operations, you would think, were an element in it. You would, I guess, measure it by the degree

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

very amusing incident that might be worthwhile as an insight as to how a new President comes along and worries about the role he's going to have to play. Almost the first major action that I had to take for President Johnson was a letter to King

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

it the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, not North Vietnam or South Vietnam. The fact that this is one country and you shove anybody in who's around. G: Another thing that puzzles me is the Tet attacks which, despite the disclaimers, were largely a surprise

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

or something because I thought he had gone to London before this. At any rate, judging from what's in the file, including a chronology, this was not my action so I can't add anything to it. M: That's a good enough reason not to go into too much detail. Does

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

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ROBERTS -- I -- 6 bus, somebody had taken a shot at the President, but we had no reason to believe he had been hit. F: They had just an evasive action in a sense. R: For all we knew

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

opinion; and [I felt] that--although I am not positive of this and can't document it so to speak--frequently his basic horse sense told him that the best course of action was perhaps not that reco~nended by the majority of his advisors. Mc

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

started recommendations to resume consideration of this course of action, which had been considered and rejected in the past. It was only after three terrorist attacks on American installations--one, the Bien Hoa Air Base just before the election; one

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

is probably too strong a word, but a program of actions designed to warn the North Vietnamese that something forceful might be in store for them if they didn't lay off supporting operations in the South? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a look at that. So you're getting a tele- vision picture, probably, of bits and pieces of about twenty per cent of the war--maybe fifteen per cent of the war. action out of that. And they only pick the dramatic So that's what you're getting on your

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: RUFUS PHILLIPS INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Phillips' office, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 G: What were you doing in Laos? P: I was asked to go up there and start something that was called Civic Action. The Lao government

Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. He obviously did, as indicated by his actions subsequent to that time. McS: I think That was the main theme of the whole two days, actually. Were you surprised at being invited down to the Ranch? Or had you come to know him fairly well just

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

they were thrown into action in a distant country against a very elusive enemy. But fortunately, beginning in 1962 under President Kennedy, our Armed Forces had been directed to prepare themselves for this kind of combat. Hence they entered Vietnam LBJ

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, a Vice President of Time Incorporated and President of Time-Life Broadcast, Inc., served in the Government for 20 years. During his Government service, he served for 13 years with the Voice of America and 7 years overseas with the USIS in India

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

as fast as we could. Added a group or two, expanded the groups that existed, and tried to have an element in the Pacific, an element in Central and Latin America, an element in Europe, the Tenth, an element in general reserve at Fort Bragg. I believe we

Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pike P: ~~ I ~~ 26 Self-immolation is an ancient gesture in the Buddhist religion as a protest against actions by the state seen as against religion. Buddhists did

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

the aircraft? General He said, "Brown, did you let They had to jump out of our own." He said, "Goddamn it, go find out." and leaves the table. Abrams says, Brown said, So he jumps up In the meantime, the action officers and the chickens and whatnot

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

-S-V-N? D: Yes. They said, "We failed," and they went into a long list of why they failed, and then they prescribed, as they usually do, some corrective actions. As I say, I have a copy of it. Nowhere in that document is there any remark

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

out, I went to I told him what my physical condition was and what the prognosis was and so on, and the fact that I was going to be out of action for at least another six weeks, and it could be considerably more than that. I suggested to him

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was as careful as anybody to be sure that the United States maintained sufficient control over actions taken by the Chinese Nationalists with weapons supplied by the United States to be sure that Chiang Kai-shek wouldn't get us into a war with the mainland