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Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about the press he'd say, "I have this report here from the best people we have in the U.S. government showing we're making progress in the pacification and so on, and here is this New York Times article. Now they can't both be accurate. people
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVI EWEE: THOMAS G. HICKER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Wickerls office, Washington Bureau, New York Times Tape 1 of 1 F: First of all, I know you came out of Hamlet, North Carolina, which I think is a very happy place to have been born
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was another. M: Did any of them ever do it? N: No. The only successful effort came in connection with our Johnson book. It was rather widely syndicated in newspapers in installments. The [New York] World Journal Tribune, short-lived, was started in 1966
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it straight. I remember that Kennedy was very bitter at reporters like David Halberstam with the New York Ti mes, who \'lere tell i ng another versi on of what was goi ng on in Saigon. And I think that this is where this credibility gap gained momentum
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • never really told him what I thought about it, which is very simple. The trouble with Johnson and Viet Nam was that he was too clever by half. He had 150,000 troops on the ground before the New York Times admitted we were in a major war, literally
Folder, "Meetings With the President -- 6 January 1964 - 1 April 1964," McCone Memoranda, Box 1 (Item)
  • to whether all things po•aible were being don·~ in South Vietnam. McNamara anawered affirmatively and then advocated the Propoaed North Vietnam Operations which are to be reviewed oa Tu9Clay. McCone raiaed the que8tion of omiaalon ol any reference to New
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • World War II convinced me to join a new outfit called the Central Intelligence Group. F: This is a piece of friendly exchange, when were you in Harvard Business School? K: After I got out of Harvard College. [I] started in '42 and finished my degree
Folder, "3 A (2) Gulf of Tonkin, 1964 - 68, 1 of 3," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 77 (Item)
  • o rg a n iza tio n s (R ep t. No. 132 7 ). A ugust 4, 1964. H on. E v e r e t t D i r k s e n , W a sh in g to n , D.C.: T h e m em b ers o f t h e N ew York S ta te As ­ sem b ly R ep u b lican co n feren ce tod ay u n a n i ­ m o u sly voted th e
Folder, "JCS -- SIGMA I‑66, Game Documentation, 9/66," Agency Files, NSF, Box 33 (Item)
  • Assembly. That body went deliberately to work fra.ming a new constitution for the war-ravaged country. ~T ' - NOFORN A-2 (BLUE) Page 2 of 9 Pages SEC~ ;,;;,- - NOFORN Prior to the US elections, a prominent opposition spokesman stated, "The recent
Folder, "National Security Council - 1961 [1 of 3]," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 4 (Item)
  • was not available from others, before proceeding with assistance deemed to be in the United States interest. The Department is now reviewing the whole of United States policy toward Africa, and we will be developing new proposals for fu­ ture guidance. /S/ Dean