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- JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH'S WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE ON CIA IN INDIA; DISCUSSION OF NEWS PROGRAMMING ON EDUCATIONAL TV, POSSIBLE COMPETITION WITH NETWORK TV, USE OF PUBLIC MONEY FOR ALLEGEDLY SLANTED COVERAGE; MILTON EISENHOWER AS HEAD OF PUBLIC TV
- LBJ DISCUSSES HIS MEETING WITH RUSSELL LONG, OTHER DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE ABOUT INVESTMENT TAX CREDIT SUSPENSION BILL, SUGGESTS DIRKSEN TALK WITH JOHN WILLIAMS, ASKS DIRKSEN TO MANAGE BILL, DISCUSSES DWIGHT EISENHOWER'S PHONE
- RUSK SUGGESTS LBJ REMIND RICHARD NIXON OF EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION'S ROLE IN VIETNAM POLICY, SUGGESTS SEPARATE BRIEFINGS FOR CANDIDATES, CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS; USE OF "UNCONDITIONAL" IN AGREEMENT WITH NORTH VIETNAM; NEED FOR BACKGROUND PRESS
- LBJ'S HEALTH; CANCELLATION OF POPE PAUL'S TRIP TO VIETNAM; CLARK CLIFFORD'S STATEMENT ON BOMBING PAUSE; LETTER FROM UNNAMED MALE (MCGEORGE BUNDY?); COMMENTS ON EUGENE MCCARTHY'S PROPOSED VIETNAM PLATFORM PLANK BY NSC, DEAN RUSK; DWIGHT EISENHOWER'S
- DISCUSSION OF LANGUAGE FOR SPEECH BY LBJ ON VIETNAM NEGOTIATIONS, BOMBING HALT; REVIEW OF LBJ'S EFFORTS TO SEEK PEACE; TIMING OF BOMBING HALT AND IMPACT ON PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, CANDIDATES; BRIEFING FOR EISENHOWER; POSITION FOR JUANITA ROBERTS
- SUCCESSOR TO MAXWELL TAYLOR AS AMBASSADOR TO VIETNAM; LODGE'S POLICY ON USE OF TEAR GAS, DEFOLIANTS; IMPORTANCE OF CIVILIAN APPOINTEE; LODGE OFFERS TO RETURN AS AMBASSADOR; FCC VACANCY; LBJ'S RELATIONSHIP WITH EISENHOWER, LODGE; REPUBLICAN
- JCS MEETING ON 2 PLANS FOR MORE US FORCES IN VIETNAM; POSSIBLE EISENHOWER BRIEFING; NUMBERS OF TROOPS IN EACH PLAN; EXTENSION OF TAYLOR'S APPOINTMENT; MIKE MANSFIELD'S, GEORGE AIKEN'S VIEWS; DECISION-MAKING PROCESS; DETERIORATING VIETNAM SITUATION
- SARGENT SHRIVER'S RESIGNATION FROM OEO, POSSIBLE AMBASSADORIAL APPOINTMENT; ILLINOIS POLITICS; RICHARD DALEY; UNPOPULARITY OF OEO; LBJ'S RECENT MEETINGS WITH US TROOPS, PILOTS, DWIGHT EISENHOWER; AVERELL HARRIMAN; ARTHUR DEAN; ARTHUR GOLDBERG'S
- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: MILTON EISENHOWER (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ F: More on LBJ Library oral histories
- See all online interviews with Milton S. Eisenhower
- Biographical information; FDR; LBJ's relationship with Eisenhower; invitation to LBJ to speak at Johns Hopkins; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Chamizal dispute; LBJ as civil rights leader; Latin American affairs; 1960 election; Dominican Crisis; Panama
- Eisenhower, Milton Stover, 1899-1985
- Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz
- Milton S. Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- . Johnson's relationship with General Eisenhower? A: I know something of that, and I think they were relations of mutual respect. Now, when I say I know something about it, on some occasions --and I cannot be more specific than that--on matters relating
- Biographical information; early impressions of LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ and foreign policy in the Eisenhower Administration; LBJ as majority leader; the 1960 election; the JFK legislative program; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh During Mr. Johnson's years in the Senate, particularly during the Eisenhower years, you were, I know, very close to President Eisenhower. What
- First impressions of LBJ; legislative accomplishments as President; opinions on the Vietnam War; similarity between LBJ as a Senate leader and Halleck as a House leader; friendship with LBJ; LBJ and Eisenhower; LBJ and the vice presidency; LBJ
- would do a little arm-twisting, but not so much on the Republican side. If he did it, it was more to get enough Democrats added to the Republican forces to win the day. M: What were his relations with President Eisenhower? Mundt: Pretty good. He
- First meeting LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; 1948 Mundt-Nixon proposal; Joe McCarthy; USIA; Smith-Mundt Act of 1948; Arthur Larson; LBJ’s support of Eisenhower-Nixon-Dulles foreign policy; Quemay-Matsu-Pescadores problem; Russia détente
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- and Senator Russell came in--this was during the Eisenhower days--and asked him, "Bob, how are you going to vote on this Don Paarlberg going to be assistant secretary of agriculture?" The Senator said, "I guess I'm going to vote for him, Dick. Why?" Well, he
- ; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; LBJ and Kerr's dealings with Senator Joseph McCarthy; Reynolds' post-presidential visit to the LBJ Ranch with Bill Kerr; Eisenhower's responsibility for U.S. involvement in Vietnam; LBJ as vice president.
- ~· MEETING OF THE PRESIDENT WITH HUGH SIDEY OF TIME MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 8, 1967 This was a general discussion on American involvement in Vietnam. The President said that President Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson had done everything possible
- people don't know how the other one-third live. (The President cited the health, education, social security budget increases of $19. 3 billion in 1961 to $23 billion in 1964, $42 billion in 1968 and a projected $47 billion in 1969. He said Eisenhower
Folder, "February 6, 1968 - 10:30 a.m. Senior Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2
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- and in their timing. They stretched the Seventh Army out like an accordion. The Germans did much like the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese, even to wearing United States uniforms. I never heard at that time anybody who wanted to fire General Eisenhower because
- The President: General Westmoreland will visit with General Eisenhower. Let's not · make him late. Walt Rostow: at the DMZ. General Westmoreland will discuss future deployment .'' ~ General Westmoreland: We want to move ahead on strong-point obstacle system
Folder, "[November 20, 1968 Meeting with Tuesday Luncheon Group]," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4
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- when you see what happened in Eisenhower's years. We don't have a credible justification for what GVN is doing. Let's try to get Thieu aboard. Secretary Clifford: I would like to see both Hanoi or the NLF present. Secretary Rusk: I would like to see
- ; I was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time of the Bay of Pigs. The election was held in 1960; General Eisenhower was president. President Kennedy took over on 20 January 1961. And three months later, here was a major operation put
- ; views on Eisenhower's methods; CIA and the military; impressions of General Harkins, Bradley and Patton; Laotian settlement negotiated by Harriman; Taylor-Rostwo recommendations; Acre of Diamonds; reflections on Diem; conference during Cuban Missile
- the Geneva Accords, and the ink was hardly dry on Dulles' signature when he and Eisenhower decided that we should try to control South Vietnam where the French had failed. That seemed, to use one of my mother's most used words, LBJ Presidential Library
- , as they call it? B: In 1952 of course we had a new preSident, and in his State of the Union Message he said that Hawaii should have statehood and he didn't mention Alaska. M: President Eisenhower? . B: Yes, President Eisenhower. So this started one
- , Speaker McC.o J:maelc, Boggs. HaUeck, AJ'enda. and one or two others 1. The Preaident opoke at some length on the South Vietnamese policies, reading a letter of l?~es1dettt Eisenhower to preeumably Diem in October. 1954, lndi.cathls pre1ent policy
- effective work done now is Mansfield is so far in the other direction from Johnson. Mansfield is more of a gentlemanly man than Johnson ever thought of being, but Johnson got things done. F: Without getting into the pros and cons of the Eisenhower
- temper and why senators respected it; partisanship in the Senate; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jimmy Hoffa; LBJ's interest in space; foreign aid under Eisenhower; LBJ's Senate work; Robert McNamara; LBJ keeping JFK's staff members; LBJ's
- ; Eisenhower/LBJ relationship.
- " ~ The Preside1.. ,: I appreciate your coming here. can be out of the hospital as quickly a~ possible. rl \ ·I.?c;pe·Sena-Yo~.....H u·s-sell Our people have talked with General Eisenhower. In addition, we have talked with Senator Russ ell, Mc George Bundy
- , former Press Secretary to President Eisenhower, going to Vietnam for a short while to replace Barry Zorthian, joint Information Officer . It was agreed he would be a good man for the job - - but it was unlikely that Hagerty would leave ABC to take
- , even with the best of motivations, the more hostile one gets towards the stay. Our government in Berma is anti-communist, but we try to deal with our problems by our own means. Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Dulles g ave us g enerous aid by way of arm s
- as the work of the United Nations Development Program is concerned, he always displ~ed the greatest interest and sympathy for it, and support of it. F: As you know, when the Eisenhower Administration came in, the JohnsonR~burn line was to do a kind
- prestige to handle the information duties within Saigon. The President and Secretary Rusk agreed with Christian. General Wheeler said he, Ambassador Bunker, General Westmoreland and Bob Komer went to see General Eisenhower at Walter Reed yesterday
- the President anything he wants. "In fact, they are trying to give me an anti- riot bill which I do not want. 11 The President said he talked to General Eisenhower today. 11 1 think you (Eisenhower) would be good for Secretary McNamara, and Mc~amara would
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- the Kennedy Administration as well. In the Eisenhower Administration you served as Ambas sador to France for a number of years and then as Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs and as Undersecretary of State in the late 1950 1 s. During the period
- Appointment as Secretary; relationship with LBJ during Eisenhower administration; State Department Appropriation Bill and Foreign Aid Bill in 1959 and 1960; LBJ's role as VP; Cuban Missile Crisis; differences between LBJ and JFK; budget; balance
- the Eisenhower Administration in 1953 as you suggest, I've served under three Presidents, as you indicate: Johnson. President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and President So from a practical sense it is a non-political or non-partisan appointment. B: Do you
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- of his leadership, he had to be. He was leader in the Senate mostly during the time that President Eisenhower, a Republican, was in the White House. And I think, and I'm sure you'd find many sources more reliable than I in that regard, as I recall
- know, we were running against Eisenhower, and it was pretty much an uphill race. It was quite difficult to even get speakers to represent the Democratic position, particularly to try to educate and elevate the people of this country to accept him
- , practically all of the progressive Bills were supported by the three of us. B: During the Eisenhower years, sir, do you remember any conscious attempt to sort of mute partisanship during the years of a Republican President and a Democratic C ongres s when you
- of partisanship during Eisenhower years; supported JFK-LBJ ticket; JFK’s Catholicism; JFK’s rapport with Congress; personal relationship with JFK; LBJ as VP; JFK-LBJ relationship; JFK assassination; Secret Service protection; arrangements with LBJ should McCormack
- signatures I took the whole list, photostats of it, in a wheelbarrow into the White House and presented them to [Dwight] Eisenhower, changed our name to Committee of a Million against admission of Communist China to the United Nations until she'll qualify
- /show/loh/oh 2 inception in 1957, so that means you served through now four presidents. H: That's right, all four. M: Did Mr. Johnson use the Civil Rights Commission any differently from either President Eisenhower or Kennedy, or for that matter
- to that I've often laughed about since. I told him that not too long before, in 1960, President Eisenhower had come through on a very similar visit; this was his trip which was supposed to take him to Japan when he was cancelled out by the peace
- real recommen dation of the Administration was really when President Eisenhower told Presidc:nt Kennedy he felt the first action we would have to take would be in that area -- Laos, and Viet-Nam -- and that he would have taken it ex.ct!pt th,":lt he
- President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and President Johnson, I'd say the more important variable from the standpoint of the Policy Planning Council is the Secretary of State . Now insofar as the President's personality comes to bear on it's work, I'd