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Folder, "3 A (2) Gulf of Tonkin, 1964 - 68, 1 of 3," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 77 (Item)
  • , th ey are now w ate r over th e dam . F reedom of th e seas m u st be m a in ­ tained. Aggression m u st be repulsed. I n this, A m ericans — an d I hope th e free w orld —will be united. L et us hope an d pray th a t th e neces ­ sary action
Folder, "Hilsman, Roger (Vietnam - Diem) (1963) [1 of 2]," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 263 (Item)
  • - THE Ji NEWS NEW YO .. K'9 ~tCTU,_11!: NEW ■ ~A~ER 1272 NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. 20004 NATIONAL 8-5058 J°UllP JO, 1971 J>1ar Bill, tl~rff~S that IillibJh Hilsman dooum.~nt. B~st, \ TO . FR011 SUBJECT .... l._ Diem-Nhu Move
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the world. So it clearly was a useful thing, certainly useful for the 001 people, and the brighter, the more imaginative operators soon discovered that in effect they were getting a free hand who had a good bit of academic training that was relevant
Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at the time you left Vietnam and came back here, there was discussion in the press about an alleged disagreement between you and, particularly, Army commanders regarding the necessity of concentrating on destroying the Viet Cong infrastructure
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , particularly political, having to do with South Vietnam. Also, quite frequently George Christian, the press secretary, would be there, and also Tom Johnson or somebody like that to take notes. Occasionally Vice President Humphrey would attend
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a speech in Japan that seemed to be contrary to what Johnson was saying in his campaign speeches. The press made it a big thing. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 21-24]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • as executive agreements, before the Senate Foreign Relations Corrmittee, which was insistent that they should be entered into as treaties. Also during this period,continued efforts I was making to keep Radio I Free Europe, RFE,and Radio Liberty, Radio RL
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • . We used to use We used it like from Washington to Detroit when he had just an out-and-back without too many people involved. We used it a good deal. I suspect that the President flew on that Jetstar, during the course of his Presidency, fifty
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Candidates ," and it was so difficult to get speakers even to debate Republican speakers on a national hookup of free time, that I had to fill in some of those myself. I enjoyed terrifically debating people like Sherman Adams, who was the campaign manager
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • something like the Korean settlement, with a genuine demilitarized zone and the Communists on the North and the free Vietnamese on the South, with some guarantees of our troops remaining there. This, I think, was what he was hoping for, praying for, up
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was obviously becoming closer and closer, I was the laughing stock to begin with of both the national press and the local sentiment in Wyoming, as a hopeless case-F: Yes, I remember your campaigning even penetrated into Texas. M: In fact, its penetration
Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the press about s orne action that we are thinking of taking with reference to some country, making a loan, something of this sort, or we are going to make a loan or we aren't going to make a loan- -this kind of thing. Often enough, as far as we could
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • McGill represented the press; and one of the Menninger brothers. [Karl] One of the elderly Menningers represented something, but he didn't believe in cities (I'm not sure whether they got the right Menninger). Anyway, he kept coming in appropriately
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 8, Draft Memo for the President," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)
  • '. ,-Et-;G:'fl!Ri.+E~T~s~iJ.:;;~~ ... ,:~F... J,tJ-ir.:L-w~~z-;:-en4J: ~ ~ Based on these assessments Approve a NSAMstating 1. will our recommendations are: that our political leave the people of South Vietnam free institutions. forces The NSAMshould
Folder, "Deployment of Major U.S. Forces to Vietnam, July 1965, Volume 5, Tabs 281-292," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 42 (Item)
Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • President liked it and then asked me to work on several other speeches when he was Vice President . M: How did Mr . Johnson go about assigning a speech of that type? Does he give you pretty full free reign, or does he give you pretty clear guidelines? 0
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on there . on there . And we asked Kennedy--and we had some Humphrey people Of course, Humphrey was defeated in Wisconsin and West Virginia and had pulled out of it, so the Humphrey were footloose and fancy free . I felt that as Governor that I could persuade a majority
Folder, "NSAM # 328: Presidential Decisions with Respect to Vietnam, 4/6/1965," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 6 (Item)
  • to insure that incentives for service in Vietnam are included in the Foreign Assistance Act. They are also pressing the Department of Labor to have Bureau of Employment Compensation legislation liberalized with respect to death benefits. I have asked 0 1
Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Now I know Ken Galbraith played it quite differently giving advice on all subjects, domestic as well as foreign policy, you know. He was a free- wheeling person doing it an entirely different way, and it has its advantages but also its disadvantages
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the campaign you handled his electronic media, I thi:n.k. M: His radio and television, yes. G: I kn6w of the one occasion in New York when there was a joint appearance. What did you do there to set that up? Well, let me give you the background. The press
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the press which finally killed it. before we had consulted the Germans. M: And this hurt him politically? Mc: Yes, it hurt him politically. M: What about Erhard? It was done It caught Schroeder by surprise. There were two meetings with Mr. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • area . Obviously, tbat'left the Chairman free to freelance on whatever happened to be the biggest flap of the moment and also left him for what was'.ihis major distinguishing job, which is that of being the real liaison of the Council with the White
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Narch 30, the Presice.nt ?r::::ss conference out on the la,vn in the Rose; Carden. I ve:ry '.;1211 because I \"ont to my daughter's school and fIe" a kit e with her that morning, and he had called my office, apparently just t, ~)2 at th. press co
Folder, "3 A (2) Gulf of Tonkin, 1964 - 68, 2 of 3," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 77 (Item)
  • . 1964, OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY THE WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT THE FISH ROOM (AS ACTUALLY DELIVERED) My fe llo w Americans: As P resid en t and Commander-in-Chief, i t i s my duty to the American people to report
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . But when this unpleasantness began·happening after May 8, the press began to attack Diem. A great many·American officials began to think he was getting worse and worse. Some people~ including mYself, began to be worried lest he collapse, and then we
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of planning in a free society, which is the question that John Kennedy raised even if he didn't respond to it, and which is the question increasingly raised by some people who are thinking thoughtfully about our economic and social problems. G: Do you think
  • Employment Act of 1946, its intended and eventual uses; tax reductions of 1964; regulating the federal budget; the war against poverty and its failures; local control of education; planning in a free society; President John F. Kennedy; rising
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • which, in normal protocol, "After you, Alphonse" terms, would have been hours and hours and hours . point . Well, time was absolutely pressing at this We wanted to bet the communique out, and this called for it to be redone, because obviously you
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • back further, or whether to go ahead with something on the order of a hundred and one, to two billion dollar range. It was President Johnson's view that if we pressed ahead, and particularly what he thought might be the political reaction to a budget
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --Senator Johnson go? M: In the fall of 1955, I was playing golf one day, on a Sunday. Governor Stevenson called me off the golf course [and] said that President Eisenhower had had a heart attack, and the press was LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • will sound very simple, but people thirty or forty years from now might not consider then quite as simple as they now are. Don't let them limit you. If you want to ramble around and talk about something else, by all means do so. You were with United Press
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at the airport and arranged a press conference for hUn. That was my only contact with him. M: What did these big city northern mayors think about Johnson being the vice presidential candidate in 1960? C: I personally thought it was a very good choice, I
  • legislation; Senate vote on Medicare testifying on the hill; civil rights bill; duties as Secretary; expansion of Office of Aging; women in government; appointment by Secretary; birth control report; surgeon general's report on smoking; LBJ and the press
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Johnson a couple of times on specific requests froT:l President Johnson to speak to him about this or that bit of legislation, rr.ainly in my field. And he _vas ahlays very professional about it. The press at one point thought--and had it in the paper
Folder, "National Security Council - 1961 [2 of 3]," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 4 (Item)
  • As published IL s 1 1-t>nthl.y IL u 2 As published International (Selective Politics Bibliography) Press Releases ~ino-Soviet /5oviet Affairs Affairs Notes (SAN) • 1-IL Routes 1-IL - eOffll'Im!lft':Etdi CE:tf.l'RAL INI'ELLIGENCE AGENCY TITIE
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • manner or means. G: She became rather famous for making certain statements to the press later on, and the one that sticks in my mind at this time for some reason is that after 1963, she went on record as saying that the Americans were to blame for it all
  • Agrovilles; insurgency; Madame Nhu; Green Berets; Lionel McGarr; coup d’etat; Father Raymond DeJeagher; Buddhists; press; James A. Van Fleet; troop numbers; other U.S. and Vietnamese officials; country teams in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of fact, what we did was, when I flew down to the ranch for the January 1st press briefing so that the President would sign off on it--it was January 1st and no work was done that day--when I flew back the first place I went was the Archives, and I
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • political mechanism is closely associated with the dairy industry. And Mr. Mills, there- fore, pressed for certain types of adjustment to the pricing and support activity of that industry, which, again, was my responsibility. LBJ Presidential Library
Folder, "[July 21-27, 1965 Meetings on Vietnam] [ADDED TO FILE, 6/28/85]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • in the press? We are trying to do so many oth~r things with our economic and health projects. ConstR.ntly remind the people that we are doing other things besides bombing. .­ UtM€R: Took this question up with Zorthian end I pres~ p~ople. { ' CJc
Folder, "Hilsman, Roger (Vietnam - Diem) (1963) [2 of 2]," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 263 (Item)
  • to.be dopa stories in the press that he was going out to clean up the sitmtion anc;ldo somethfag about Diem. I cannot say who \Vas responsible for thqse 'stories, but my • , I -: •DECLASSIFIED i Authority,lC\'"IIt- fOQOl-1 o't'25 I. [ Rv-&L
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • parts of the government seem to be in excellent order. M: That's good to hear. I'm afraid the 6 W D W H Department doesn't have a very good press sometimes. B: 2 K well, the 6 W D W H Department never does. You just find out one thing. The 6 W D
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • should He'd clear it and then I'd tell them off record, hush hush, come in the back door, don't talk to tne press, and we'd have a meeting. Or a bill signing. When the bills that we were involved in [were passed], you would have a signing ceremony