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  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH ALSOP INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Joseph Alsop
  • ceiling 549,500. Then, I flew out to Clark .L\ir Force Base in the Phi 11 i ppi nes on the bJenty;;.fourth of f\1a rch, and I met with General Westmoreland and discussed this whole thing with him most of one night. LBJ Presidential Library http
  • , from time to time [Clark] Clifford He was then the chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. But he It/as also an advisor to the President on many other things. years. ~r. They have been friends for many From time to time
  • ; the Pueblo incident; Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford; LBJ’s estimation of the enemy’s thinking; Tet offensive; the San Antonio formula; LBJ not running for re-election; LBJ’s lack of involvement in the 1968 convention; General William Westmoreland
  • a consultant. I then succeeded Mr. Clark Clifford as Chairman of that board when he became Secretary of Defense. P:Also, during your career you've authored two books, The Uncertain Trumpet and Responsibility and Response. General Taylor, before we LBJ
  • than Mr. Rusk, Mr. [Clark] Clifford, General [Earle] Wheeler, and to some extent Mr. [William] Bundy at the State Department, and the other chiefs of staff, have access to the traffic going backward and forward between Paris and LBJ Presidential
  • and military involvement in the “other war”; the State Department’s lack of interest in the Other War; management of the Other War; Komer’s Vietnam reports; regrets regarding Komer’s work in Vietnam; Clark Clifford’s goals and plans; Komer’s idea for a war
  • Komer summarizing the contents and saying, "It's mostly a lot of flowery garbage." What he had done is sent it around to his kitchen cabinet. He sent it to Abe Fortas; he sent it to Clark Clifford; he sent it to Dean Acheson; I forget who the others