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  • from his office asked me for it. And no one in the State Department asked me for it. M: When this was disclosed, did you get any flack from above about this? D: No, I got a query from the Washington Post and they asked me why and I told them
  • demonstration and dissent in prior commitments of our troops? For instance, now we have some of these coffee house organizations outside of our Army posts. R: I think the coffee houses are something I am not aware of the Army having had before. But from
  • /show/loh/oh FISHER -- I -- 10 Mc: Did you have any occasion to sori of deal with Mr. Johnson or his staff in relation to what was happening back with your constituencies-post offices and things like that? F: On occasions I did. Usually my dealings
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • immediately assumed that somebody had duplicated the key. Now in the case of Vietnam, I've always had the feeling that we reasoned from the analogy of our experience in post-World War II Europe. We looked at Communist China as though it were Russia; we looked
  • : You practiced in Chicago? W: Yes. I first became an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago and served there for four years, and then became a Special Assistant Attorney General to prosecute a large mail robbery case in which a post office
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • then was--I'm not sure whether it was late 1963 or early 1964, but anyhow in that time span, post-Diem coup. G: Did you receive any special instructions in the wake of the [Charlie] Mohr departure? M: No, only that the problem with Charlie had existed
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • by_ evaluated this situation. I'd Senator Russell called me and said, "I've I need somebody to fill my press secretary's post right away, and the job is yours if you want it." I said, "Well, I definitely want it, but I think it would
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • this--in order to get to MAAG, we had to go by this big Binh Xuyen post that's right in back of what was then MAAG headquarters, which was down in the middle of Cholon. Xuyen were, manning the ramparts there. Here all the Binh We went in and we started
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • from transfusions or from the use of contaminated needles, went up. I think there's just a normal corollary to the increased sticking of needles in arms. G: Right. What about this phenomenon that's called post-traumatic stress disorder? How do you
  • Agent Orange; health requirements for returning to the U.S. from Vietnam; self-inflicted wounds; drug use among soldiers in Vietnam; post-traumatic stress disorder and related problems; the psychological development of people before they join
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . You hit him in the head with a cedar post . G: B: G: Let me ask you some more about the--we could go in any direction . We're not getting down to any bases here . I know that . Okay . Let me ask you one more thing about that staff meeting which you
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • L I N E . PAGE 2. mo RF3 W IL L CO^JDUCT AR.'IED RECCE SOUTH ALONG C0NI3UCT POST S T R IK E RECOMNAISANCE. R'JMGZK 2 45 T 0 P J E C H E- f ------- 6 F S 'S and 1 RFB W ILL 3E LAUNCHED 0 4 25 - 043 3Z AND DEPART IMMEDIATELY FOR QUANG KHE
  • , ----------------------- Vietnam------------------------------------- memo, 13 morale evaluation 12 -- Aide Memoire, policies S to Westmoreland--------------------- post-TET msg, 12 -- Wheeler Vietnam questions 11 12 -- State Khe Sanh
  • y d e s k ,/a n d talk in g w ith L iz about ■V ■ ■■ in ' V^ going to P a lm B each. A nd/our long m id dle-of-the-night c o n v e rsa tio n , I ^ h ad to ld L y n d o n ,,/^ a t M rs . Post,.^w as thinking the F e d e ra l g o v e rn m e n t
  • LBJ's sleep habits; troubles facing LBJ; possible trip to Palm Beach; Marjorie Post & possible donation of Mar-a-Lago estate to Federal government; arrival ceremony for Liberia President Tubman; Lady Bird to luncheon at Lorraine Cooper's; phone call
  • Vietnam time (about 0100 EST, 7 February) . Because 0£ cloud cover in the target areas , only the strike against the Dong Hoi target was completed. The other missions aborted before reaching their targets. 3. Initial post-strike photography
  • in advance about our bombing · pauses', it !:\as not worked in the. past. I Coi:Ycel'lif.i:Ig-the"".'tY6ubTes at.non1~'1"adtey-:said~ur :nieamn3f coffimtirucatioii~ ·are· largely-res·p-difsible7• "For example, the Washington Post used three pages
  • that if one were sitting in Washington and reading the newspaper every day, the Washington Post, the New York Times and so on, I think the conclusion would have been inescapable that the Vietnam problem as seen by the LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . They worked on the domestic part of the book, although she didn't do that much. Bob Hardesty and Harry Middleton did most of the work on the domestic side. G: How was LBJ to work for, "post-pres"? You said he was imperious and impatient. J: I enjoyed
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , the welcome back, what was happening out there; getting the Cabinet plane out over Japan back; alerting the bases, the posts overseas. So that really not; I can't say that I could focus on that [Johnson and the Kennedy programs]. As you move along
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • it on the front page of New York Times and the Post the next morning. But not a line. But the interesting thing was that the wire services did summarize it and send it out. So that the small papers throughout the country got the news that Senator Ernest
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . That was Keynesian, but under the pressure Then in the post-war period, already in the 1945-1950 period, you can find statements of economists, and one joint statement about stabilization and full employment policy in which leading * Revisions since then have
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the Washington Post? H: No. I have no inside information about what's going on there. I know only what I've read in the daily press, daily newspapers. Obviously, I'm keenly aware of the boat people, because after all, one gets constant letters from
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was very mellow, and he was appreciative of all that took place and grateful to us for our support. He didn't have a post mortem. as I recall, that "\'Vell, we tried. He merely said, We did the best we could. We just go on now and support
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • breakthough. Prior to that a freshman senator would get District of Columbia and Post Office and Civil Service, something of that sort. I've heard Humphrey say that's what he got LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • it through . His record kind of amazed everyone . In retrospect, did that 1964 tax reform perform as you predicted? Did it perform adequately? 0: Yes . Great success . I Wrote it up in September '65, trying to make some post-mortem estimates
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • extensive development. W: Yes, I think that they have been doing some planning ahead in Vietnam. Our government has worked with the government of South Viet- nam to lay a few plans for future development in the post-war era, and many of these are natural
  • on some air fields, then you have to have some guys in there to guard the air fields. Then it's simply not a question of posting MP's at the gate of the air field, you're putting combat troops around the perimeter of the air field; and then if somebody
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ? Just after his election. And meanwhile, having made this mistake and feeling very strongly about the matter, I concentrated my attention post-election on the Vietnamese problem, which was obviously the biggest problem facing the President. well
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ministers--on crises and they all exchange information back and forth between each other and get to be very good friends. They all poured into Germany--into Bonn. We set up a command post over in the White House. were here, and Fowler and Deming were over
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • STATES:MIGHT BE MADE'. •-:°'.'-'. .. , .... ' ,,r 1 1I~' • •· . IT WAS LEVISON'S SUGGESTION THAT.':.PEOPLE LIKE-:JQHN KENNETH GALBRAITH,,' . ,_..:;·;-· :: ' KING, JAMES WECHSLER, ·THE EDITOR ·or THE' "NEW ·YORK POST~, DR.,'.JOHN .. BENNETT, PRESI DENT OF UNION
  • , philosophical, and it would give me also personal satisfaction, of course, to go back as ambassadorto the post at which I first started in the Foreign Service. Thus I expect to return homeshortly to resume my previous job as Deputy Under Secretary
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Lady Bird has photos taken with Mrs. Post & her staff; Lady Bird back to White House; newspaper stories; LBJ to Hawaii for Vietnam talks; LBJ, Luci & Lyn to New York for installation of Archbishop; upcoming Austrian dinner; upcoming Texas trip
  • Lady Bird reads the newspapers; Lady Bird to Johnson City for meeting about new Post Office; Johnsons & Krims helicopter to & drive around Green Mountain Ranch; helicopter to Davis Ranch; Lady Bird & Mathilda Krim walk through fields of wildflowers
  • ""ietnam, not only for the value of ~ss i s t an c e, but a l so because of its jmport::m ce to Victnarnese rno r ale. Sf.RVlCE _7 : .. .. _..,_ -. _ _ ,,::~~ . .. .. . • i;. I - l ­ (3) The Vietname s e ncc
  • to 100, 000 votes. The President gave Mrs. Zaiman an Asian medallion and a deck of cards. ~~-6.;_ George Christian I ! ' October 17, 1967 NOTES OF THE PRESIDENT 1S CONVERSATION WITH HOBART ROWEN, WASHINGTON POST October 14, 1967 Rowen: You don 1t
  • of superi or; ty. I thought lithe acti on" was with China and Japan, and this post-colonial appendage was of no interest to us. It had been badly mauled by the French and indescribably badly managed by the French, and the last thing in the world 'tIe
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • be able to find someone better qualified than I for this post." difference. He said, ''Well, that doesn't make any Anybody with any intelligence can pick up the pieces, and maybe it's better not to have a Manpower expert, per se." Well, I still LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • as open as they might otherwise have been. But I did campaign in western Massachusetts with Humphrey for the ticket, and I was present in Post Office Square when President Johnson came in in the late part of the campaign. I guess it was the last week
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)