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Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • after I entered the Senate and became a critic on Vietnam-M: Did he play any part in the Senate leadership as Vice President, prior to that time, for President Kennedy? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information; 1960 visit with LBJ; Soviet wheat proposal; critic of U.S. involvement in Vietnam; 1965 meeting with LBJ; Senator Frank Church; cessation of communications between President and Senate critics; efforts to end the war; White
Folder, "NSAM # 273: South Vietnam, 11/26/1963," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 2 (Item)
  • Vietnam RESTRICTION CODES (A) Closed by Executive Order 12356 governing access to national security information . (B) Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document. (C) Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in the donor's
  • Vietnam
  • Folder, "NSAM # 273: South Vietnam, 11/26/1963," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 2
Folder, "The Bertrand Russell 'Trial'," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 191 (Item)
  • NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE I WITHDRAWALSHEET (PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES) FORMOF DOCUMENT DATE CORRESPONDENTSOR TITLE Agency: Justice RESTRICTION Department ' 0 f.e.V'\ FI LE LOCATION NSF Country File Vietnam, The Bertrand Russell
  • See all scanned items from NSF Country Files, Vietnam Box 191
  • Vietnam
  • Folder, "The Bertrand Russell 'Trial'," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 191
  • Country Files, Vietnam
Folder, "NSAM # 288: Implementation of South Vietnam Programs, 3/17/1964," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 3 (Item)
  • for International Developrn ent · Implem~ntation of South Vietnam Programs 1. The !"eport of Secretary McNamara dated March 16, 1964 was considered and appro.v ed by the President in a meeting of the National Security Council on March 17 •. All agencies concerned
  • Vietnam
  • Folder, "NSAM # 288: Implementation of South Vietnam Programs, 3/17/1964," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 3
Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • himself. G: That does sound like a tough one. It's a good thing we didn't have to act on anything in the interim, I suppose. Did you have anything to do with Vietnam in those early years? 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • How Ginsburgh joined the Policy Planning Council at the State Department and his duties under the Policy Planning; Ginsburgh’s work on the Vietnam negotiating group; how Policy Plannine made their recommendations; Walt Rostow; bombing campaigns
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : By 1967 the Vietnam War had grown dramatically since mid-1965. Tell me about your perspective of the Vietnam policy during this period. C: Well, this probably was another reason there wasn't a great deal of other legislative activity, because Vietnam
  • Cronin's view of Vietnam policy in the mid-1960s; public opinion of the Vietnam War in 1967; Senator Tom Dodd's 1967 censure; ethics among senators; the Presidential Campaign Fund Act and the election reform bill; the 1967 expansion
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: ROSWELL GILPATRIC INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Gilpatric's office, Manhattan, New York Tape 1 of 1 TG: Mr. Gilpatric, can you recall the circumstances under which you were named to chair the task force on Vietnam
  • Task Force; Edward Lansdale; August 24 cable; Averell Harriman; Roger Hilsman; Joseph Mendenhall; Ambassador Frederick Nolting (Vietnam); JFK assassination; LBJ; Vietnam; General Paul Harkins; Joint Chiefs of Staff; military reports from Vietnam
Folder, "September 26, 1967 - 1:15 p.m. Weekly luncheon - McNamara, Katzenbach, Helms, Rostow, Christian," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • again how we got into Vietnam, why we are there, and what our purpose is. The luncheon group agreed that more of this needed to be done. Nick, isn't it bad for those newspapers to be closed down in Saigon? Katzenbach: There are many newspapers out
  • Vietnam
Folder, "October 4, 1967 - 7:02 p.m. McNamara, Rusk, Rostow," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • that will make every man proud who has served in the Air Force. The . Congressmen said . they talked with some Air Force personnel in Vietnam who said they would rather build than destroy. Have any of you talked with .Percy about his resolution? Secretary
  • Vietnam
Folder, "May 14, 1968 - 1:10 p.m. Tuesday lunch with Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)
  • Director Helms: It is troublesome until it settles down. Secretary Rusk: Are you meeting with South Vietnam legislators? SERVICEaET - 2 ­ TOP 2527 The President: They are not on the schedule. Secretary Rusk: They are volatile. The President: I
  • Vietnam
Folder, "[April 5, 1966 -1:00 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • , Moyer;;;, and Valer!d. {fl·or:i Valenti notes) Iniorma.tion from Vietnam seems unclear. Taylor thinks situation in Danang is better, but what will Bu:ldhists do? Roatow feels this morning is n1uch better than we anticipated last night. {President
  • Vietnam
Folder, "[October 3, 1967 - Meeting with Rene Maheu of UNESCO and William Benton]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • and health. If you are healthy and educated you can build your own steel mills. The President urged a go-ahead on the UNESCO project to help equip a National Technical Center in Phu-tho, Vietnam. Maheu mentioned literacy projects. The President replied
Folder, "May 28, 1968 - 1:30 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisers Tuesday Lunch," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • to carry out Westmoreland 1 s plan would be construed as the first attack of this kind against Cambodia . Sihounok would blast us, North Vietnam would blast us, and it would create a big problem when everything presently is reasonably comfortable. He
  • Vietnam
Telephone conversation # 12734, transcript, MARVIN WATSON and RICHARD DALEY, 2/28/1968, 10:20AM (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • DALEY'S MEETING YESTERDAY WITH UNNAMED MAN AND THAT PERSON'S SUPPORT FOR LBJ'S VIETNAM POLICY AND FOR UNIFIED DEMOCRATIC TICKET; DALEY ASKS THAT APPOINTMENT OF OTTO KERNER TO JUDGESHIP BE SENT TO SENATE SO SAM SHAPIRO CAN BECOME GOV.
Telephone conversation # 13511, transcript, WALT ROSTOW and DEAN RUSK, 10/2/1968, time unknown (Item)
  • Vietnam
  • ROSTOW SUMMARIZES HIS CONVERSATION WITH DEAN RUSK, WRITES THAT RUSK IS SENDING DETAILED REPORT ON HIS MEETING WITH ANDREI GROMYKO TO WH VIA COURIER; ROSTOW WRITES BRIEF SUMMARY OF RUSK AND GROMYKO'S DISCUSSION OF VIETNAM, MISSILE TALKS, AND MIDDLE
President's Daily Diary entry, 2/5/1966 (Item)
  • ___ Activity (inctudr visited by) -' Katherine ^ The President came down the elevator in the Mansion -- w/ Mrs. Johnson and greeted Miss R'tibhsE^oa (Stevie-nickname) Westmoreland - daughter of General Westmoreland - commander of the USA Forces in Vietnam
Folder, "Demonstration – October 20-21, 1967 [1 of 2]," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Box 64C (Item)
  • • CONFID!!MilAL 'ANTI-VIETNAM WARDEMONSTRATION the 1930's and 1940's. In 1967 Corliss Lamont is the Chairman of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. The Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, established in 1951, is an organization with headquarters
  • Vietnam criticism
Folder, "[Manuscript] Chapters 17-24," Papers of William P. Bundy, Box 1 (Item)
  • other absorbing perhaps because of the ~ activity. 7S L-ntc,:.;,:ft in important ideas policy review Sou th Vietnam, political namese were front, of greatly assumed and within three attack where test the of dents, take out days
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975
President's Daily Diary entry, 3/20/1967 (Item)
  • in discussions — - Joined by Hon. Leonard Unger , Depty Asst Secy of State; Chmn Vietnam Coord. Discussing th e agend a fo r th e afternoo n meeting s wit h th e Vietnames e leader s plans fo r Rober t Kome r i n Vietnam , defense tactic s 12:15p 1:12
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in which he could bring support to bear to help our efforts. The program was originally called Third Country Aid, and it was basically aid from other countries, other than the United States, to help the government of Vietnam. very open-ended. The more
  • Vietnam
  • Job duties for the Free World Assistance (FWA); LBJ’s support of the FWA; requesting the involvement of other countries in aid to Vietnam; 1965 Pleiku incident; public relations speaking engagements about Vietnam in the U.S. and Europe; the use
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 19, January 19 - February 4, 1966 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 6 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • with Michael Stewart and Dennis Healey I attach a briefing memo from Dean Rusk. He has called just this minute .., to say two things: l. He hit Stewart very hard on shipping to North Vietnam and Stewart has agreed to do e ~erything they can do short
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the midst of a trip to Vietnam . when that was? I think it was in More than Can you 1966 . In fact I'm pretty sure likely it was in the fall of 1966 . it was in 1966 . But I did go over to Cambodia, yes . G: You made an interesting
  • Vietnam
  • Time limit in dealing with Vietnamese situation; the Tet Offensive; Weyand's role; press reaction; impact of Tet on South Vietnamese forces; intelligence; Cronkite's visit to Vietnam; the pacification programs; decision to write Tet!; subsequent
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • rapidly at that time; then much connection between Libya and the Arab-Israeli problem. Of course, the Six Day War didn't happen until after I had switched over to Vietnam, so what Libya did in that connection I don't know. They broke relations with us
  • Vietnam
  • ; differences between Walt Rostow and McGeorge Bundy; Komer taking charge of Vietnam issues as Special Assistant to the President; the quasi-military character of “the other war” in Vietnam vs. pacification; unifying the management of the war; using the term
Folder, "February 15, 1968 - 6:06 p.m. Cyrus Vance meeting on his return from Korea - and other foreign advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • .-~ ...:~.P--~:..t:.on l".""r"' cV~ 0~ - 3 ­ if another serious act occurs. There was an understanding that they would keep their troops in South Vietnam. I did not raise the question of the committed troops since General Westmoreland' s cable did
  • Vietnam
Folder, "March 26, 1968 - 10:30 a.m. Meeting with Gen. Wheeler, JCS and Gen. Creighton Abrams," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • : Yes. GENERAL ABRAMS: Westy feels that way. GENERAL WHEELER: General Westmoreland is there in South Vietnam. He has complete authority. He can't go across the DMZ. There are limits on Laos and Cambodia. THE PRESIDENT: Whose strategy is used? GENERAL
  • Vietnam
Folder, "April 6, 1968 - 1:30 p.m. President's meeting with Gen. William Westmoreland - Washington, D.C.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)
  • want General Westmoreland to report on: a. Successor to General Westmoreland b. Deputy Commander c. Military Advisor d. Views on Harriman draft e. Suggestions he has to Harriman £. Report on military position in Vietnam, particularly
  • Vietnam
Folder, "[June 17, 1966 - 6:05 p.m. National Security Council Meeting]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • -~¥ SJ GI~'-./SENSITIVE "-· _·__:~;_;_~~-'-~~~~~- FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY SUM:MARY NOTES OF 559th NSC MEETING June 17, 1966; 6:05 to 8:00 P. M. Vietnam - - POL The President summarized the actions required and the judgments which will have to be made
  • Vietnam
Folder, "[February 21, 1968 - 1:00 p.m. Meeting of Rusk, U Thant, Others on Vietnam (President Did Not Attend)]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • of State Katzenbach Ambassador nt Large Harriman Assistant Secrciary of State - William Bundy Assistant Secre_tary of State - Josc0h J. Sisco U~ITED r The conversation concentrated exclusively on Vietnam. Whilel the details of the give-and-take are given
  • Vietnam
  • Folder, "[February 21, 1968 - 1:00 p.m. Meeting of Rusk, U Thant, Others on Vietnam (President Did Not Attend)]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2
Folder, "[February-April 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • ~· MEETING OF THE PRESIDENT WITH HUGH SIDEY OF TIME MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 8, 1967 This was a general discussion on American involvement in Vietnam. The President said that President Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson had done everything possible
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DANIEL O. GRAHAM INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Graham's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: All right, sir, go ahead. DG: Let me tell you first my connections with the Vietnam affair. It probably started back in about
  • Vietnam
  • Biographical information relating to Vietnam; fall of the Diem regime; Thieu; General McChristian and order of battle techniques; discrepancies in the figures; the crossover point; "The Uncounted Enemy;" actions of General Westmoreland; Giap
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • advantage of the increased defense requirements for structural steel. If my recollection is right, this is the kind of steel that we would use in Vietnam for building, for building airstrips, for--so there was the sense that they were profiteers, and I'm
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 40 (XL), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the build-up in Vietnam announced in July and the President's decision, not announced but certainly transmitted to me, to go full bore on the Great Society programs, to keep producing their programs, to keep getting money into the programs we had, turned
Folder, "October 15, 1968 - 1:20 p.m. Tuesday Luncheon," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)
  • . We have two teams in North Vietnam of 20 men. It will take 24 hours. 2. I have to get a reconnaissance program. 3. We must position forces in the DMZ. 4. We must get the rules of engagement. 5. We must set guidelines for reprisals. I need
  • Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to that, of course, through the JCS channel, we frequently became involved in major questions and would be called to the White House to discuss various aspects of such things as Vietnam operations, or the budget, and main issues of that kind. In addition to that, I
  • Vietnam
  • Patrol of the destroyer Maddox in the Tonkin Gulf to intercept electronic emissions; doctrine of freedom of the seas; incidents involving Maddox; media distrust of U.S. service commanders during Vietnam War; retaliation for Gulf of Tonkin incident
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 90: Aug. 1‑10, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 38 (Item)
  • •day, B realda•t with the Pre Friday, Aupat Aup•t ■ ldent 2, l 968 8:30 A. M. A1end& 1. U.S. Military Re•po11■ • to a North Vietnam••• OUea■lve General Wheeler will brtn1 to th• breakfaat hie ll ■t of ■peclfic mlli•ry action ■. (Th• other
Folder, "Gen BE 5-7 Economic Planning for the End of Hostilities (Post War Planning)," WHCF BE, Box 41 (Item)
  • Studies Enclosure ,, MEMORANDUM June "TO: The Vice FROM: Joe Pechman SUBJECT: Elbow Room for Social Vietnam Economy 14, 1968 President Programs in the Post] It is becoming fashionable to argue that there will be very ·little_ fiscal elbow
  • Vietnam
  • File unit description: The drafting of the Post Vietnam Report to the President by CEA and the coordinating committee for economic and program planning after Vietnam.
Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Monetary Issues, Vietnam, UN, 11/25/1968, Volume 5, Tab 76," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)
  • :>netaey Issues, Vietnam., UN CODES (A} Cloaecl by Executive Order 11652 q0yerninq access to national security 1nfc:rmatlon. (B) Closed by statute or by the aqency which oriqlnated the document. l ::::::::::-.:,:::T::::-=•••O.d m
  • Vietnam
  • Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Monetary Issues, Vietnam, UN, 11/25/1968, Volume 5, Tab 76," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 46, October 16-20, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 24 (Item)
  • WITHDRAWAL SHEET (PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES) FORM OF DOCUMENT DATE CORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE TS RESTRICTION 1 f) S 1 p- 0\.,€., V/,/~~ .,J~ 9'f-~2[Duplicate of #39, NSF, Country File, Vietnam, "3L(l) 3/65-11/67, NVN Leadership Attitudest S 1 f) ~ 1
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 20, February 1- 11, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 13 (Item)
  • . WALT ROSTOW THE WHITE HOUSE Subject: President's Conversation with Ambassador Goldberg Regarding Trip to Vietnam The Secretary recommends that the President, in his talk with Ambassador Goldberg today, should ask the Ambassador to look into ongoing
Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Secretary McNamara's Mission to Vietnam; OAS Action on Venezuelan Arms Cache, 3/5/1964, Volume 1, Tab 4," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • FI LE LOCATION NATIONAL SECURITY FILE, National Security Council File NSC Meetings, vol . l Tab 4, 3/5/64, Secretary M::Namara's Mission to Vietnam OAS Action on Venezuelan Arms Cache RESTRICTIClll CODES (A) C losed by Executive Order 11652 qovemlnq
  • Vietnam
  • Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Secretary McNamara's Mission to Vietnam; OAS Action on Venezuelan Arms Cache, 3/5/1964, Volume 1, Tab 4," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1