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Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Abel--I--7 A: He had done it in the beginning. ~~ere he was--I suppose--technically right; blockade is one of a possible range of warlike actions. But to have said that a blockade was necessarily an act of war at that moment

Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 what you might call contingency action. Ordinarily, we only join the Navy on a full-time basis in times of national emergency. Now, we work with them in a good many programs

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Voice of America. Frank Stanton was just a sort of adviser to the President; I don't think he had an official position then. He may have been chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Information. He became that later, in any event, but whether

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

INTERVIEWEE: RUFUS PHILLIPS INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Phillips' office, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 G: What were you doing in Laos? P: I was asked to go up there and start something that was called Civic Action. The Lao government

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 6, Khe Sanh Reports, A-S," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)

our construction capability. Providing the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion yet to be furnished as part of Program 5 would significantly improve our buildup in the· north. With regard to Republic of Korea Forces, action should be taken to oppose any

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

helpful to the government, he should report to Washington. G: Can you recall about when you took this action? T: No, I just remember my action when I discovered it. G: Is this when you were chairman of the Joint Chiefs? T: No. Sometime when army

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

. He obviously did, as indicated by his actions subsequent to that time. McS: I think That was the main theme of the whole two days, actually. Were you surprised at being invited down to the Ranch? Or had you come to know him fairly well just

Folder, "3 A (2) Gulf of Tonkin, 1964 - 68, 1 of 3," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 77 (Item)

during th e re st of th e sessions of th e S en ate th is week. UNITED STATES ACTION AGAINST N O RTH VIETNAM Mr. GORE. Mr. P resident, w hatever doubts one m ay have held regarding th e policy an d actions of th e U nited S tate s in S o u th V ietnam

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

/loh/oh Helms -- II -- 9 Vietnamese and staying behind the scenes, had been advising them on political warfare and covert action and things of this kind. So when he went back again, was sent back again and wrote this report in 1961, obviously

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the signing ceremony, trying to bring in everybody we could think of in the various transportation interests including all of the modes, some of the suppliers, and such organizations as the Transportation Association of America and the National Freight Traffic

Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and '64 and so forth and so on. M: What happens to bureaucrats who push an idea like that so hard and lose? What happened to the theologians? Did the President take some kind of action against them later? L: No, one of the fellows who had been

Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that they've done the wrong thing. I used to be a very timid person and even up until I was sixty years of age very cautious about expressing an opinion. But the one thing that would loosen my indignation and drive me into action was somebody doing

Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the suggestions of Mr. Stevenson that were not taken. But I think he agreed with the final action, so I don't think there was any real decision that way. But during this thing, as it was going along, there were clearly differences of views put forth. I think

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

they were thrown into action in a distant country against a very elusive enemy. But fortunately, beginning in 1962 under President Kennedy, our Armed Forces had been directed to prepare themselves for this kind of combat. Hence they entered Vietnam LBJ

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of action more people than the enemy was capable of recruiting from in-country sources and infiltrating from North Vietnam. G: Do you know what the infiltration rate would have been at about that time? M: Without looking back through the documents, I can

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

we got the Bulgarians' agreement just a couple of weeks after Dorset's departure. And then we signed the agreement itself early, I believe, in July, soon after the fourth of July. P: Did you see evidence of an independence of action in Bulgaria

Folder, "Presidential Decisions-Gulf of Tonkin Attacks of August 1964-Volume II, Tabs 10-13," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 38 (Item)

power from the United States of America. But there can be no peace by aggression and no immunity from reply. That is what is meant by the actions that we took yesterday. Finally, my fellow Americans, I would like to say to ally and adversary alike: let

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, but no action is likely to happen unless somebody pushes it. When we got back, we started to push. And as a result of this, a telegram did go out to Lodge a day or two after we got back which was pretty forthcoming. To be sure it contained an awful lot

Folder, "Deployment of Major U.S. Forces to Vietnam, July 1965, Volume 4, Tabs 221-241," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 41 (Item)

people o f South V iet Nam, who are fig h tin g and who are dying fo r the r ig h t to choose t h e ir own way o f l i f e , t h is r e so lu tio n says: America keeps her prem ises, and we w i l l back up those promises w ith a l l the resources that we

Folder, "Memos, [Cables, memos, reports, and other material, 11/63-5/67] Vol. XV, 8/1964," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 7 (Item)

' ' , P *BT ^ U SIA ACTION P R IO R IT Y D E P lC la J ^ N F O SAIGON 19 V IEN TIA N E LONDON 172 MOSCOW 41 WARSAW N IN E Q I t a WA I t NSG (BANGKOK NINE USUN 50 DOD CINCPAC CINCMEAFSA UNN FRCW D ELH I TNTl AUGUST 13, 8 :0 0 PM ' ' NEA ; T NIC RMR

Folder, "Far East Trip, May, 1961," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 1 (Item)

to find way• and mean• of •haring with the local official ■ in Aaia the knowled1e that America baa 1ained from facing aimilar problem•. Certain type• of machinery already exiat, auch aa the "ai ater citie•" which are ••t up throup the People to People

Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a charter; this was worldwide responsibil ity. M: You were not specializing in Indochina affairs at that time? S: No. As a matter of fact, the day before the assassination we had just come back from Latin America. We'd been down in Latin America. I

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

, a Vice President of Time Incorporated and President of Time-Life Broadcast, Inc., served in the Government for 20 years. During his Government service, he served for 13 years with the Voice of America and 7 years overseas with the USIS in India

Folder, "Deployment of Major U.S. Forces to Vietnam, July 1965, Volume 2, Tabs 120-140," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 41 (Item)

COPY LBJ LIBRARY i (first draft) Si n g l e P a g e PROPOSED COURSE OF ACTION Rg VIETNAM The s i t u a t i o n i n V i e t n a m i s b a d a n d d e t e r i o r a t i n g . Even A s s e s s m e n t and p r o g n o s i s , w i t h g r e a t , i

Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on hotheaded instructions from Washington~ ~- I burned into action by the American press, to get on with it and tell this guy to apologize and eat crow and do things that he couldn't possibly afford to do as president of the country, which also would

Folder, "[July 21-27, 1965 Meetings on Vietnam] [ADDED TO FILE, 6/28/85]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)

you fol low · McNn.mRrn.' f! course. PRl

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

as fast as we could. Added a group or two, expanded the groups that existed, and tried to have an element in the Pacific, an element in Central and Latin America, an element in Europe, the Tenth, an element in general reserve at Fort Bragg. I believe we

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

under house arrest. They could just shove him off to a side and not give him copies of all the telegrams, and he was just as much out of action playing tennis in Saigon as he would have been under house arrest in Dalat. The other four were more active

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on the adoption of the agenda. But there was never any subsequent action taken, not because of any lack of initiative in this regard by President Johnson or the Johnson Administration, but rather because the Russians didn't want to have LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of America, USIA, during the late 1940s and 1950s. Z: That is essentially correct. Is that correct? Let me summarize it very quickly. I was with the Voice of Arneri ca from 1948 through 1961 , and my final position there was as program manager, which

Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

antipersonnel weapons against harmless villagers. R: Where was that dropped, in the North or in the South? G: In the North. R: As I said, if he wanted to believe a North Vietnamese communist over Of course, this was later-- Americans, only in America

Folder, "Deployment of Major U.S. Forces to Vietnam, July 1965, Volume 4, Tabs 258-280," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 41 (Item)

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Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

all." And he [changed]. for anyone. two minutes later, of course, But I mean I don't think he had very much good to say But, on the other hand, his actions belied this, I mean held keep on trusting people. M: Could you tell that he made a~y

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

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pike P: ~~ I ~~ 26 Self-immolation is an ancient gesture in the Buddhist religion as a protest against actions by the state seen as against religion. Buddhists did

Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, you might say, my course of action--which incidentally I think was quite close to the course recommended by the Joint Chiefs, except possibly for stopping the bombing altogether-whether we would have been any farther advanced today, no one can say. I

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

These forces also were useful in civil action programs which we are currently conducting in South America. P: How much did the Tet Offensive set uS back in our progress, and why could we not prevent it? R: The Tet Offensive, I think, set us back

Folder, "Deployment of Major U.S. Forces to Vietnam, July 1965, Volume 7, Tabs 421-438," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 43 (Item)

support and readiness to assist to the best of our capacity. ” Later Bunting told our Ambassador that tlie letter meant that action was intended "as soon as possible" and that the cabinet would be tackling the question of furtiier Australian military

Folder, "Presidential Decisions-Gulf of Tonkin Attacks of August 1964-Volume I, Tabs 1-8, 1 of 2," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 38 (Item)

it y S p e e c h .......................................... 32 C. U . S . A c tio n at the U nited N a t io n s ................................................................. 34 i i . ) VI - JOINT CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION ON U .S . ACTIONS

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, they needed somebody to coordinate the action and honcho the thing along so that there would be a result of some kind in a fairly short time. That's the sort of thing that I was doing. However, you run into some very odd things. For example, Mrs. Cabot Lodge
people out of Vietnam in 1975 and Jacobson's regrets over U.S. actions toward the Vietnamese; lessons learned from the Vietnam War; Jacobson's view of author Frank Snepp; what Jacobson would have done differently in evacuating people from Vietnam

Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a counterinsurgency plan of action, which had never been implemented. And I think he was very skeptical of the ability of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

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