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  • Washington informed through his daily report. The President asked that closer attention be paid.to.our efforts in the U. N. SANITIZED Authority 1-)~c.. ,-.J.C-9'~ ,k: A,'W El'-S '/ By ,; ' , NA.i~, Date 'I--16 - gr?) ex Tb!.¢[6..2( C- O•p- y Lyndon
  • period? J: Well, I would say that the best reporting of the Vietnam situation has been by guys 1i.ke Bob Shaplen of the New Yorker; Sol Sanders, U.S. News and World Report; Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News-- M: You did get one newspaper
  • was living in Japan, Dien and I began to hear and read about this place called and so I went down there for the Chicago Daily News what turned out to be the end of to the Viet Minh Dien Bien Phu fell Accords . it . and at the time of the Geneva
  • that--particularly thought of serving at the UN. that I wasn't interested in the UN Not but I was doubtful if I could afford to live in New York at the United Nations, because it's a very expensive post. Probably, if I had realized how expensive I couldn't have
  • STATES:MIGHT BE MADE'. •-:°'.'-'. .. , .... ' ,,r 1 1I~' • •· . IT WAS LEVISON'S SUGGESTION THAT.':.PEOPLE LIKE-:JQHN KENNETH GALBRAITH,,' . ,_..:;·;-· :: ' KING, JAMES WECHSLER, ·THE EDITOR ·or THE' "NEW ·YORK POST~, DR.,'.JOHN .. BENNETT, PRESI DENT OF UNION
  • there was not a strong and yet poorly articulated commitment. During the first many months of his Administration Johnson did nothing either very new or very definitive to try to reduce or indeed to increase our involvement. It was basically, from his point of view I
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 F: A lot of the time, and, therefore, while I saw him when he came to Paris and did occasionally see him here in New York, it wasn't anything like as close as during the time we were both
  • as it was functioning, and consequently we proposed in 1967 that there be a significant change in the law to give it a different kind of a complexion. We had our last meeting in December of '67, which was the same month that we got our new amendments. I took
  • and Teetering 22B: The Pleiku Attack and the Shaping of a New Course 23: Competing Pressures and the Baltimore Speech 24: Negotiations: Word and Deed, Public and Private 25: Shoring Up Proves.Not Enough 26: The June-July Policy Debate: The Framework
  • Council health Council Southern .) year~ Yuntil in the next it almost political triumphal In this Suu himself the admin­ in sel­ This Phan Khac Suu ~-~ to the J . in the Navan­ but stage, somewhat he guided new Charter
  • Daily News, Keyes Beech, who had heard of the thing and wanted to go. In the meantime I think there was also a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- II -- 3 tax but certainly it was some time in the latter part of increase~ 1965. The tax increase discussion was given a new urgency in December, when
  • at Harvard. Then I got caught up in the U. S. Army during World War II and had about four years of that, including a long siege of combat in Europe. When I came back from the army, I went to the Charlotte News as editor and stayed there about a year
  • equi;:,ment Washington substantial number But even at the anot~er ½;ii:c Laos.** and flow of new weapons in and perhaps Hanoi * rifles Chinese) became highland border ;:aobili ty basic (mostlv regiment, in If was Cong
  • . Since returning homeI've been having myoffice, usually Bob Beaudry, who's my principal assistant nowwho replaced John Getz, been having him come out in the morning with the daily summariesand the telegrams to keep me up to date on what's happening
  • for the President's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who has just started this new thing called the Peace Corps." had read about it. do." He said, "Do you want a job?" I said I I said, "I think I So he wrote on a piece of paper in his notebook the name "Bill
  • the new constitution and Dr. Dang Van SU!lS, an eminent civilian, was elected President. Ky stepped down but continued to serve as Although the Govern­ Commander ot South Vietnam's Air Poree. ment included more civilians than ever before, it was quite
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  • have bee1'l struck, and 62 have not been struck, but have been authorized. I 1. l ThP- President said the new Polish Ambassador was quite vehement when he p!-"esented his credentials to the President Tuesday morning. The President said the Polish
  • , some withdrawal from the DMZ and inquiries to the Swiss Govern.­ ment on what it has done to arrange talks. The re have been several hard line editorials in Hanoi and a Polish remark that "This is a L bad time for contact, "~ The Secretary concluded: 7
  • not before Congress as a platform for the Democratic party in '56 and again in '60. Most of the time I was governor of New York--a considerable part of the time I was. Then afterwards I still remained as a member because we were very much concerned
  • prospect; the President reviewed bill by bill. IS said the prospect was not hopeless, was difficult, but that he felt the results would be good. }• Sevareid aske& if the President believed the new South Vietnam @OTern­ ment would seek peace. The President
  • with whatever U. N. facilities, translators and so forth, which could be made available. And that, as I understand it, is the essence of what U Thant told Stevenson. Stevenson apparently did not write any of this down, and subsequently when I went up to New
  • , Kentucky; Representative Hal Boggs, Louisiana; Representative Gerald Ford, Michigan; Honorable Allen Dulles, Washington; Honorable John Day [J.] McCloy, New York. RUSSEL L: Well, now Mr. President, I know I don't have to tell you my devotion to you. But I
  • in information; LBJ's interest in the news; LBJ as a liberal; what LBJ would have thought of 1996 political issues; the relationship between LBJ and Connally; speculations on LBJ's career if he had run for re-election in 1968; how LBJ's presidency will be viewed
  • news organizations, to my recollection, had staff correspondents based in Saigon, I think except for the news agencies. correspondent. The New York Times had a visiting Usually it was a person from Hong Kong who came down just the way I did. LBJ
  • into the South; Abe Fortas; reporters and public opinion on the war; the effect of the news media; evaluation of other reporters in Vietnam; American generals in Vietnam; locations and dates of his field reporting; covering the Communist side of the war; books
  • that ran the paper at that time were not pro-Johnson . I had a friend who was editor, but he died and a new regime came in over there in 1939 or 1940 and they didn't like Johnson's politics very much . G: On the other hand, I guess Mr . [Charles] Marsh
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROGER HILSMAN INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Hilsman's office at Columbia University, New York Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. your last official You're Roger Hilsman, and position with the government
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Sisco -- I -- 7 S: That's the warm-up period. And what happened was this-- this is new, this is not known, and theref ore, would be of intere st: Arthur Goldberg at that time felt very strong ly that the matter should
  • and 20, 1977 INTERVIEWEE: Mrs. Jane Englehard INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Engelhard's home, Cragwood, Far Hills, New Jersey Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your parents, first of all. Your father was a Brazil- ian diplomat. E
  • to the United States and involvement in the microfilm business; New York Governor Alfred Smith; a plane crashing into the Empire State Building; marrying Charles Engelhard; Engelhard’s political career; Engelhard’s involvement in the gold business; race
  • , because of your background, is with the method by which people of your type were recruited into the government. T: You were with Standard Oil--is that correct? That's correct. I was operating in the Caribbean area with Standard Oil Company of New
  • into the Department of Economic Affairs; Labor was 95% against the new Department; Labor-Management Advisory Committee studies merger and proposed that it not be done; personal contact with the President; White House staff; Cabinet meetings were basically
  • . describe even emotio:i board, inc::::-eased. past that away from drawing side, inevitably was bound such t: ..e US role, t..'-1e old addi tio::al one's New Yo::::-k.e=:cartoon Vietna.~ese also for any Back, to see .,., I
  • level of defense spending to finance expensive new projects without evaluating the consequences in relation to our fo'reign and domestic policy goals. The question that should be asked is: Would the security of the nation be measurably improved
  • as a change of policy . That we were doing what was necessary, that was the policy ; that this was just a couple of new things we were doing, but it wasn't a change of policy . effect, to mute the whole thing . him into that . He wanted, in I don't know
  • the Polish thing was about to mature . examination, lots of things . Well, I don't myself This is a matter of a refined Among other things, it is the fact that on the thirteenth and before news of the bombing in the Hanoi area on that date, Rapacki had
  • publications, I did become fascinated with this issue: how close can these two so different countries be? They have the same ideology and then, as you recall, the political belief was very firmly held that there was a new bloc, a new axis, that was tightly
  • , that may have gone up from 5,000 people at the time of the census to 50,000 people five years later, if they can get a capitation arrangement on rebate of money from the state with a new figure, of course they want to take it. I think it's fair to say
  • thing on the question that the office sent on the problems of HEW, I have noticed that's in the news again. I believe even your predecessor Mr. Ribicoff said it should be dismembered when he left the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • 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
  • , the Sheep Meadow, was in the bandstand, the platform from which the speeches were made, and I heard a reporter for a major New York paper, the New York Daily News, call in, and I may not have the figures exactly right, but I think I even have the figures