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Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • been on Taiwan and who had been largely responsible for the success of the veterans' program in Taiwan. G: Was that part of AID? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • Vann; Wilfred Burchett; LBJ and advice on foreign affairs; 1966 elections in Vietnam; poor organization in American military in Vietnam; Francis 'Ted' Serong; the Tet offensive; 3/31/68 speech; El Salvador in 1982.
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a moment on one thing. Veteran newsmen have seen it all and presumably don't stampede easily. Was there a feeling among the White House press corps, widely expressed, that this may be the beginning of some sort of coup d'état or an attempted nationwide
  • Katzenbach as attorney general; presidents’ interaction with the State Department; May 1966 trip to Chicago; LBJ’s opinions of the U.S. role in Vietnam; LBJ’s assessment of his own staff; Tonkin Gulf resolution; Lindley Rule and press access to LBJ
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • details were requisite for him to callout the tha,c became a necess2.ry step, as it did. militar:;' area tvitil ,chich I ment of .Tus t~ familiar, but I 1,':'1S F: They morc the book' ::, \'laS not Depart- ::e
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of this whole affair in Vietnam. G: If I interpret you correctly, you're saying we gained eve\~ything we would ,have lost if we didn't fight? H: That's just about right. G: Did CIA help prepare the State Department White Paper on the North's role
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Atomic Energy Commission on this matter. I know that he took some actions which subsequently resulted in the creation of NASA, on the one hand, and a concentration of authority in Department of Defense, on the other. F: You had no personal relationship
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Well, it was a rather difficult reception . . . ? I think, in the State Department, the responsibility for that problem had gone to the Bureau of Economic Affairs, and the attitude of the Assistant Secretary at the time was : we made one mistake
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , let's go up and have lunch." The other thing that made it a notable occasion was that we went and had lunch in the second floor family dining room. And Ralph Dungan said to me after the lunch--it was a very friendly affair. He was very close
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by what he saw in Paul Kattenburg, who was the country director for Vietnamese affairs, who's presently a professor at the University of South Carolina, after early retirement from the department. G: What was he disturbed about? F: It was sort of ad
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • remember on any number of occasions we used to mutually deplore what we felt was the lack of coordination of all of the efforts, first just within the federal government--how each department had its own poverty operation. Labor was doing something
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the United States until 1961, when I returned to Vietnam and stayed until 1964. At that time, I switched over from the military, wearing a soldier suit, to staying in the military but actually working for the State Department. I went back again in 1965
  • Lodge got Jacobson a position in the State Department as mission coordinator; Jacobson's opinion of Graham Martin, Maxwell Taylor, Ellsworth Bunker, Creighton Abrams, and Frederick Weyand; Ed Lansdale's 1965 trip to Vietnam and the work of a group under
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • can't settle for neutralism when your military affairs are going downhill. Lodge mentioned many times, "If the French had had a conference on neutralism with the Germans, who were occupying France in 1943, it wouldn't have been so good
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was due for relief. Mike had already retired once, he was on retired status then, and he had been out there for a couple of years and Department of the Army thought there should be a change. I said there was no particular reason I shouldn't go, except
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • - national Affairs at Princeton on the expropriation of American property in Cuba in 1959. After the election and the inaugural in 1961, Bill and Sarge were very helpful getting me interviews with certain people I needed in the State Department for my
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- I -- 2 occupy, and that must have been 1946 or 1947. By the time I was in college and began to get really interested in public affairs, like a lot of other people, it certainly wasn't
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)