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Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: All right, sir. Is it accurate to say that your first involvement in intelligence regarding Vietnam was when you were at USARPAC? D: Yes. That's true. You don't watch it with the single focus that the J-2 MACV watches it, because that's the whole
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Summary of army career; involvement in intelligence regarding Vietnam; replacing General McChristian in Saigon; differences in McChristian and Davidson; "the Weekly Intelligence Estimate Update;" Creighton Abrams; counterintelligence; pattern

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 27, May 1-15, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 16 (Item)

· .HEHEW IT if,,aUS . WHEELER'. S RESPONSE . TO :_ QUEST I ON~: AR.IS I NG . FR OM·. MAC.. E m-m ·t• s L_EJTER. MEMO~ANDU~ TO THE PRESIDENT SUBJECT: · THE. TAP.GET ' SYSTEM' Uf HORTH VIETNAM l~ THIS. 'ME!10RANDUM·; RESPONDS. TO A REQUEST.· BY SECRETARY

Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 10, April 15 - May 31, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 3 (Item)

of mllltary · ·" · · ' · y: information on operations ln Vietnam. The Proaldent ...: ·· :"_'~'.. -'· ." . . . · "·- continue a to believe that lt le very unhelpful to have detailed accounts ol the size and etrength of air opera~ona · . .. against North Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of everybody else in intelligence. It turns out that in every case where a National Intelligence Estimate was written on what the strengths were in Vietnam, there was no dispute. There were disputes within the services. I had disputes with people in DIA

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for Political Affairs; as Ambassador at Large; and, for the last year of the Johnson Administration, you were chief negotiator at the Paris peace talks concerning North Vietnam. H: That's right. M: When did your close acquaintance with Lyndon Johnson begin
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Biographical information; Advisory Council to the National Committee; LBJ and foreign affairs; role in peace negotiations; Poland/Yugoslavia visit; India and Pakistan; Soviet Union prevented bombing halt in Vietnam; trip with HHH; Manila Conference

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the youngsters fed up with Vietnam, and they had people from Massachusetts coming in and other states. It was really taken as the opportunity to have a massive show of protest against Vietnam. And there were organizations formed at that time, like by this chap

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

/show/loh/oh McCloskey -- I -- 4 One, of course, thinks about the generic story of Vietnam, and there was egregious treatment of certain aspects of that story from time to time. I like to think that during that period, that long night of Vietnam
McCloskey's career history; McCloskey's philosophy of public relations as the State Department spokesman during the Vietnam War; Vietnam War reporters; the atmosphere within the State Department, Defense Department, and White House; McCloskey's

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 48, October 25-31, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 24 (Item)

the initiative to bring Vietnam before the Security Council for debate .. The text is much less far-reaching than the one which Mansfield circulated to all other members of the Senate and to the President with a covering letter dated October 9, 1967. We recommend

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 59: Feb. 1‑6, 1968 [2 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 28 (Item)

to be flown · during the next 24 hou1·s: & TIMI1 (EST) ON TARGET UNIFORM 78 9:10 PM 5 February- MISSION NR OF ACrT (o B-·szs) TARGET LOCATION ANV. DESCRIPTION In South Vietnam> 17 miles northeast of,..Khe Sanh; colltains elements of the NVA 320th

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 39, August 18-31, 1967 [2 of 5]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 21 (Item)

be substance tc- .SoPle of these charges, we have not yet seen evidence that ,u:.bs¼4,ntiates any of them. Local election campaign committee.s are functioning PRESERVATION COPY S~ T ■ /NODIS -2- witho11t Government of Vietnam harassment and in many cases

Folder, "February 20, 1968 - 1:05 p.m. Tuesday luncheon with Rusk, McNamara, Wheeler, Helms, Rostow, Clifford," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

the weekend in Texas. We first went to Fort Bragg with General Johnson and General Walt. I made a brief speech and stood at an aircraft while the men loaded aboard. I told them that there were 500, 000 of their buddies in Vietnam and that General Westmoreland
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Folder, "September 17, 1968 - Tuesday lunch with Foreign Policy Advisors ," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)

Ambassador Harriman Secretary Rusk Secretary Clifford General Wheeler Walt Rostow CIA Director Helms George Christian Tom Johnson Secretarv Clifford: We met with the Senate Committee this morning. They spent one and a-half hours on Vietnam. CIA Director Helms
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Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

(laughter)-colonel--nice guy, and we established the headquarters in Le Tran [Nha Trang?], which then became the First or the Fifth Special Forces Group and, later, the special forces headquarters in Vietnam. And we took over from CIA these detachments
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the Assistant Chief of Staff for Force Development; DePuy's involvement in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis; how DePuy became Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) and his duties as such; the battles at Binh Gia, Binh

Oral history transcript, James Robinson, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

; this was before things really fell apart in Vietnam, when there was still some hope that he and others would be able to do something [to] salvage the administration and go on to a second term in his own right. G: May I ask if you're a Democrat? R: Yes, you can
University in the 1960s and Robinson's involvement in campus leadership; how Robinson's opinions have changed since the time he wrote the book, especially regarding Vietnam; supporting Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 presidential election.

Folder, "South Vietnam and U.S. Policies [X-File] [2 of 2]," Files of Walt Rostow, NSF, Box 19 (Item)

bert H. (AP) -- Could Humphrey have changed the course of the 1958 presiden tial campaign by dis closing information that a Rich ard M . :\'i xon sup porter tried to sabotage preiil:'l:nary Vietnam peace t c; l ~ ' '? Author 'Theodore H. White
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Folder, "South Vietnam and U.S. Policies [X-File] [2 of 2]," Files of Walt Rostow, NSF, Box 19

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

ability or potential to do the job, and two, that he was loyal to the President. M: Did that loyalty include such things as supporting policies like Vietnam, say, outside the area where the appointment was? C: Not in a specific sense. He didn't ask

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 65: Mar. 1‑6, 1968 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 30 (Item)

, Cottntry Fi:le, lftdm, Voi. 11} C l p ~ 11/11/f? Nl-'Jt/(,,- )S't:J [Duplicate of #95, NSF, Country File, Vietnam, "[3/19/70 Memo to the President--"Decision to Halt the Bombing" with copies of documents, 1967, 1968]" [Sanitized NLl 86-147] FILE LOCAT ION

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 49, November 1-7, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 25 (Item)

-Secretary .! NSC Meeting· Udall Trowbridge Wirtz • :Boyd INFORMATION SEGRE'.f "7 Tuesday. November S:15 p. m. 7, 196·7 Mr. President: Weaty on Gavin and Vietnam. W. W. Rostow MAC 10596 --SECR.ET .. , -LA . I .0. 1 2_~4) , lf.8 ~e

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 49, November 1-7, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 25 (Item)

-Secretary .! NSC Meeting· Udall Trowbridge Wirtz • :Boyd INFORMATION SEGRE'.f "7 Tuesday. November S:15 p. m. 7, 196·7 Mr. President: Weaty on Gavin and Vietnam. W. W. Rostow MAC 10596 --SECR.ET .. , -LA . I .0. 1 2_~4) , lf.8 ~e

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 21, February 12- 28, 1967 [2 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 13 (Item)

' .. .,,r \ l. Military actions aqainst North Vietnam and in Laos A. Present program About 1000 sorties per day are now flown against targets in Southeast Asia, of which about 560 are in South Vietnam, 230 in Laos and 210 in North Vietnam

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 37, August 1-10, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 20 (Item)

4 Frida 3:35 :.'n,_~ugua t , 1967 Mr. president: D.efense This ay.on e action taken by todis W. W. Rostow 98 / WASHINGTON--ADD VIETNAM TROOPS (8) I.f · a~ THE PENTAGON SAID LATER IN A STATEMENT "T~E PUBLISHED REPORT THAT DRAFT CALLS

Folder, "February 11, 1968 - 4:30 p.m. Senior Foreign Policy Advisors - Rusk, McNamara, Wheeler, Clifford, Taylor," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

has a case of the jitters. The President: Reviewed General Westmoreland's wire of February 9. (Attachment B). Secretary McNamara: General Wheeler will discuss Westmoreland's wire and the current situation in Vietnam. General Wheeler
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Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

play any part in the briefings in the 1954 episode connected with Indo-China, which grew later into the Vietnam affair? At the time when the French were about to pullout, a meeting of Congressional leaders? H: Yes, I did, mostly through the Foreign

Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Johnson's Administration . How have you accounted-0: Now which study is this? M: Didn't you do a study on dissent in the academy, the academic critics of the Vietnam policy particularly? � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
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Contact with LBJ; Walt Rostow; Dean Acheson; Policy Planning Council; bureaucratic resistance to new ideas; multilateral force; non-proliferation treaty; Andrew Copkin; MLF; PPC's contacts in academic community; Vietnam policy; Bureau

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Did you ever talk to Johnson on Vietnam? P: Oh, yes. Yes. I talked to him on Vietnam the last time I was in the White House during his administration. F: Did you carryon a good dialogue \
Vietnam
LBJ’s participation in the elections of 1952 and 1956; LBJ turning over election activities to Stewart Udall; Partens work as a consultant to Udall; LBJ’s skills as an administrator; Vietnam; LBJ’s decision ont to run for re-election; Great Society

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 91: Aug. 11‑21, 1968 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 38 (Item)

20, 1968 -- 12:55 p. m. Prealdent: For eome reaaon whlcb aeema aomewbat obecure, Hanoi aeem• aerloua about openlDg up another ~banael of dlacuaalone OD Vietnam Yla Oelo -- wlth the Norwealaa• operatla1 •• an latermedlary. They appear to propoae

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 56: Jan. 1‑15, 1968 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 27 (Item)

,Pr csidcnt ffl PM: W0ly0ake P€i -tJ 13/158- "r" , -l/-9f( 1""1'" #1 6 cable Saigon 15899 S 20 p [Sanitized NLJ/CBS 10] 1/13/68 A #18a cable Saigon 15901 C 3p [Duplicate of # llc, NSF, Country File, Vietnam, "l S Land Reform"] undated

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 72, January 2000," LBJ Library (Item)

Kenneth Galbraith Takes A Fresh Look at LBJ and Vietnam "The Vietnam Wm· i fading now in imponanee in terms of evaluating the ... Johnson pre idency. And as a consequence, his stock has been ri ing. There is more of an inclination to see him

Folder, "Diary: Vol. #8, 6/6/67 – 3/29/68," Papers of Orville Freeman, Box 11 (Item)

then be highl.y obligated to them and his prospects for building a strong friend in the Arab Nations and completely dominating if not destroying Israel would be pretty strong. · The United States in . turn, heavily committed in Vietnam, was hung up, and as Mr

Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to Vietnam in 1965? D: Yes, I came to the army in 1941, like a lot of young people, just before the start of World War II, a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., through the ROTC program. And [I] participated in World War II
Desobry's military career before going to Vietnam in 1965; Vietnam as a learning experience; Desobry's duties as a senior adviser in IV Corps; Robert McNamara's visits to Vietnam; how the military was prevented from defeating the enemy in Vietnam

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 72: Apr. 12‑23, 1968 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 32 (Item)

, Sec. ·3.6 N j '17· ~~'f . • N ~DA. Date 10·-8· ➔ g, By tµ:,,' , .J~ • -~17'-i~~ ...~- - PARl.S J3000 . REF:. STAT£ i49364· SUBJECT:-?ARIS AS.A Sii£ fOR VIETNAM 1iHILE '.vE M~E. IN NO POS!'f!ON TALKS "fO· JUDGE RELATIVE ADVANTAGES

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 48, October 25-31, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 24 (Item)

the initiative to bring Vietnam before the Security Council for debate, _The text is much less far-reaching than the one which Mansfield circulated to all other members of the Senate and to the President with a covering letter dated October 9, 1967. We recommend

President's Daily Diary entry, 7/12/1967 (Item)

:18p Amb S* 1 7:20p 8:27p OFF 8:28p George Cleveland departed the RECORD: John Scali of Christian President returned tp his oval office alone ABC TV John Scali had requested the appointment to discuss a documentary ABC is about to do on VietNam. John

President's Daily Diary entry, 11/14/1967 (Item)

for the party honoring Carol C. Laise (Mrs Bunker) U.S. Amb to Nepal and Hon. Ellsworth Bunker, U. S. Amb to VietNam --second floor, Yellow Oval Room n*t,. 14 ,' The White House Tuesday Nov 1967 Day Activity (inc)ude visited by) Geo Christia n Christian

President's Daily Diary entry, 12/19/1967 (Item)

he was greeted by Chief of Protocol, Hon. James Symington H. E. SaHHt Guillermo -Sevilla-Sacasa, Dean of the Diplomatic Corps & Amb of Ni H. E. Bui Diem, Amb of VietNam and after shaking their hands, the President boarded the waiting plane, greeted

Folder, "[July 18, 1966 - Meeting with Bi-Partisan Leaders of House and Senate]," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

. This would be $450 million, and it would give those boys in Vietnam something to which they could return ior work after Vietnam. 15% to save a little money. I could hold back MffI'NG t>IQTES CSP 1 ~IGH I EO Pwali,atieA Re~·d'e~ 2ermjssjon of Cnp~rigbt

Folder, "April 4, 1968 - 3:47 p.m. President's meeting with U Thant at the United Nations in New York City," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)

speech will generate a process for peace in Vietnam. THE PRESIDENT: That is encouraging. We tried to convince our people some move had to be made. We felt this was a step. I hope conditions will permit it to be a big step. If there is any recognition
Vietnam

Folder, "July 30, 1968 - 1 p.m. Foreign Policy Advisors Luncheon," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)

The President: What effect would a complete bombing halt have? - . . General Wheeler: Ifi:'·would permit 30% more troops and supplies to reach South Vietnam. Secretary Rusk: It would add 50% to what is getting through now. The President: Let's say that. I would
Vietnam

Folder, "[December 1, 1964 Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)

Vietnam
Folder, "[December 1, 1964 Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1

Folder, "[NSC Meeting] Discussion including / Major POL Targets, 6/22/1966, Volume 3, Tab 42," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

facilities . Se cretary Rusk: from the USSR. The President: Llewellyn Thompson does not believe there is a danger Who should we talk to ? Secretary Rusk: The chiefs of governments with troops in Vietnam, - 4 Mr. Wilson and Mr. Pearson
Vietnam

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