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- blurred in my mind. F: Authority sources are much better sources than I am for that. There were also in '63 rumors of a policy rift in Vietnam between Ambassador Lodge and the CIA chief in Vietnam. Can you lend credence to that, or is this again
- Vietnam
- ; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- 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
- was one of those newsmen that never did take a hard-and-fast dovish stand and I still support him in great measure on the Vietnam War issue. I never faulted him completely on that and I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
- Vietnam
- ; reputation as a hawk in Vietnam erroneous; Robert Kintner; rivalry between RFK and LBJ; Presidential press secretaries; LBJ seeking professional advice on TV style; conscious of Texas twang; Barry Goldwater; George Wallace; 3/31 speech; evaluation of LBJ
- to come back to that night of that meeting. Well, anyway, against that background, President Johnson, I find again around the world, gets very little credit for these matters. I suppose the Vietnam thing so blackens his reputation in a way around
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- House Conference on Civil Rights; Cliff Alexander; National Science Foundation Board; Jim Webb's acceptance of Administrator of NASA; campus unrest; Vietnam; Perkins Commission; Walt Rostow's Policy Planning Commission; Wise Men; role as Vatican
- helped a good deal, too. About that time, too, the escalation began in Vietnam. Obviously, that had a serious iQpact on the budgeting, but could you see in the budgeting process more and more involvement in Vietnam? 5: Oh, yes. [Yes, yes.] We saw
- Vietnam
- ; LBJ and the space program; Office of Economic Opportunity; the PPBS system; budgetary effects of Vietnam War; Defense Dept. and the budget; the power of the Budget Bureau; relationship between Budget Bureau directors and presidents; testifying before
- Vietnam
- ; relationship of LBJ and JFK; LBJ’s idea of his role as VP; effects of JFK assassination; consideration of dropping LBJ in 1964; LBJ’s VP selection; Vietnam War; assessments of LBJ; 3/31 announcement; LBJ’s training by professionals in public speaking and image
- , if he had something of a general nature he would call me; and if he had something that affected one union, he would call the head of that union. Mu: The Vietnam War, for example, became quite an issue within labor apparently. Mr. Johnson didn't get
- Vietnam
- labor on Capitol Hill; LBJ’s appointments; sale of wheat to Russia; 1964 railroad strike; Labor Department; proposed merger of Labor and Commerce Departments; collective bargaining guidelines; 14-B; Vietnam War; served on JFK’s Clay Commission on Foreign
- http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 in Vietnam--but overall in backing him up, and being people
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- Biographical information; General Harold K. Johnson; Lieutenant General Fred Dean; William C. Foster; Vietnam; Spurgeon Keeney; ACDA; critical decisions in weapons evaluations; ABM's; MIRVS; Space Treaty; Non-Proliferation Treaty; Arms Transfer
- with the Johnson critics who say that one reason he got himself somewhat boxed up in Vietnam was because he didn't understand foreign affairs. G: I don't think any president would ever feel that he understands foreign affairs enough to be the exclusive judge
- Vietnam
- understanding of foreign affairs; Melasky's efforts to educate the public regarding Vietnam; LBJ's vice-presidency; LBJ's familiarity with military operations; John Tower; Ralph Yarborough; 1964 election and campaign; comparing the economy of 1960's to 1971
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- about the decision to send two hundred thousand troops to Vietnam . It is clear that he saw what he might get into at that point and how this might very well cost him popularity . made . I think the decision had, in effect, already been But he asked
- taken more than its share of the cuts in light of the situation in Vietnam and in the cities and poverty and social programs. I think he agreed with this--that we had indeed, when it was necessary to reassess national priorities and redirect the money
- presidents get is Vietnam, Cuba, Berlin, all of these things. F: Middle East. H: The Middle East. They have got to have somebody to talk to, and the one that they can feel easiest with regardless of party is the man who was in there before. F: Former
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- ; NASA; 49th and 50th states settled under Ike; JFK-LBJ ticket; JFK’s death; LBJ as President; Vietnam.
- , the other thing you have to remember at that time was that it seemed very likely that President Johnson would be re-elected easily in the forthcoming election. This was before the McCarthy binge. It was before the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. At the time I
- independently of me, that one of the reasons we blundered so much in Vietnam was that the people that Johnson inherited from Kennedy were afraid of Johnson and never levelled with him, and vice versa, that Johnson was afraid of them. Neither of them ever
- Vietnam
- Convention; Minow’s prediction that LBJ would not run for President in 1968; 1968 Convention and LBJ’s control; Hubert Humphrey’s campaign for President, feelings for LBJ, and refusal to oppose Vietnam War.
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
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- TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 18 President until the situation in Vietnam had deteriorated like it did in March of 1968 . F: You were
- downfall. That is to say, when things got rough in the country over the Vietnam War there were no friends to stand by him in his hour of need. If there had been a strong and united party, which he could have built, LBJ Presidential Library http
- , as I see it, in the 1950 l s the trouble in Vietnam was not anticipated much. I just mention in passing, I made several floor speeches as early as 154, as I opposed to us going in there, alone especially. I think all of us, and I put myself first
- that most people probably didn't attach much importance to--it is only important in retrospect--you visited Vietnam and Cambodia, which were not on most senators' lists at that time. time. Tell me something about what you found out there at that Because
- : They were pretty good friends up until then, up until the Vietnam LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- stayed to see the end of that Vietnam War. something he wanted to see--the end of the War. think. G: He I certainly thank you, Colonel Reynolds. [End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview I] That was That's about it, I LBJ Presidential Library http
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- ; Estes Kefauver; Paul Douglass; Federal Reserve Board under LBJ; 1960 convention; JFK at Texarkana; assassination; Andrew Brimmer; Rayburn Building; Federal Services Finance Company; CIA involvement with foundations; 1968 election; Vietnam War; civil
- of support of Vietnam, or a problem of an icebreaker not being allowed by the Russians to go somewhere. M: Well, now, what about this urban mass transit situation? 0: This is again a long story. Most of us who worked on the DOT act felt that the urban
- , and it turned out that our conventional forces were then, seemingly at least, inadequate to handle the kind of brushfire wars that were then anticipated to occur. Vietnam indicates that they may not be adequate to this day--I don't know. F: Was there any real
- to Vietnam. C: Yes, I found that to be a strange paradox, and I think his position in the earlier years was a better one than his position in the later years. S: You mean that you believe that the criticism applies in both cases? LBJ Presidential