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

for yourself . Because you it as a journalist ; you go through the daily routine of reporting this story and reporting that story, and sort of face it and say, "All at the end of each of my visits and you rarely right, what does to Vietnam, sit down

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

. But we were looking for signs of hostility Of course, there was the Dallas Morning News of that morning, with a very unfriendly ad. IIYankee. Go Home" and so forth. mostly friendly. We saw signs like, But the crowd at the airport was Kennedy

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

/oh or maybe it was Bowdoin [College] up in New England, and had had one summer as a copy boy at the New York Times and so on. He was a very active, very energetic Vietnamese whose family or wife ran a big English school. He understood the press

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

Adams -- I -- 9 thirtieth of January 1968, I sort of went back to my hole with my captured documents and POW reports and continued working on Viet Cong and NVA strength and found, incidentally, that there was an enormous number of new units popping up

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

crisis was of course involved in that era. T: I might say that my first involvement with President Kennedy was as a result of the Bay of Pigs. I was in private life in New York at the time and was called down two days after the Cuban Brigade

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

, but one of particular relevance here, which was a conference in New York sponsored by an organization called Peace Without War. November I believe. It was last And there then that was all on the record. I gave a talk on the issues of press relations

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

, but that was a pro forma exercise in all likelihood. So, as long as Idris was in charge in a very conservative monarchial government in Libya, it was really a separate account. That has all changed, of course, since the ouster of Idris and the advent of this new

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

, represent a new development since last May. I personally think we made a mistake in showing overeagerness for LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

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

against us here in the United States. Unfortunately, many of our news media--some of them unwittingly, some of them to make headlines--have picked up this propaganda and promulgated it all over the country--all over the world! And people have believed

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

forces commander, oh, engineer detachments and some psyops people, and medics. They were called Special Action Forces, and that's when counterinsurgency was brand new. We were all very naive. We did all the things that Americans know how to do, like build

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

out and seeing what was actually happening in the countryside. And my report recommended a very radical overhaul of AID, with the creation of a new rural affairs division, but at the level of assistant to the director so that it took its authority

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

to this day. It continued in These are largely cosmetic changes, and OCB was abolished. I was unhappy over the fact that here I not only had won my spurs with the New Frontier, hut that I was clearly not only known to, but favorably regarded by President

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

the infiltration thing. And I have no doubt that in the subsequent programs a new phase will pop up, or in his book a new phase will pop up. He spins off of this central core of the guerrilla strength and whether these odds and sods, as the British would call

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

never really told him what I thought about it, which is very simple. The trouble with Johnson and Viet Nam was that he was too clever by half. He had 150,000 troops on the ground before the New York Times admitted we were in a major war, literally

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

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

B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pike I -~ 7 up in New York City you are probably going to be a somewhat different kind of a person than if you

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

time to all the Vietnamese, North and South. It is a sort of a combination of Christmas, New Year, and Easter. I've been told by Vietnamese or Southeast Asian experts that this period of family reunification or celebration hadn't been violated

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

kind of a guy have we got to work with here? They knew McChristian, they knew his good points and his bad points, but here's a new fellow. And I didn't know any of them. Joe and I would have very informal conferences. We lived together in a house

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

that there was some time ago an article in I believe it was the New York Times which indicated that he asked for a lot more troops than he was given. He had plans as to how he would use those troops, in the event they were made available to him, but he said he