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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… very bad on dates. Young Well, ’64 would have been when LBJ was running for a full term. Hyman Yes. Young And Ted was … we went upstairs to my study and I started to talk about Vietnam, suggesting that this is what was compelling him to …
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| Bill Clinton Project… them rose to the level of me questioning those things. The Vietnam stuff was probably a little more—I could see the case … as to whether or not he was ready to go off and fight in Vietnam. The things these other guys have done, in which the … Texas. I assume you are probably familiar, but where the LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson] School is, there's that big fountain …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… affection for. Later, in 1970, I got involved in the anti-Vietnam War movement and worked politically for an anti-war … the healthcare issues. The 1960s was of course, until the Vietnam War dragged the Democrats down, a very progressive …
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| George W. Bush Project… in my work. Riley Sure. Yoo He has a book about LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson] and European policy. Then Brian, on … stronger. Walt Rostow was very much a part of that. Before Vietnam, this was the thing Rostow was working on. He was … Brahmin world and he was kind of run out of academia after Vietnam. He shows up in Texas and he said, “We appeared and …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… people behave. In the 1960s, with respect to the war in Vietnam—the protests over it—the leaking of national security … program, although it has come back a little bit with the Vietnam veterans. We have a new age of veterans coming in—but …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… had upset him in the primary in 1970 when the whole anti-Vietnam and counterculture thing was at white heat, … the Republicans—they were running a young, totally unknown Vietnam veteran as a sacrificial lamb, I guess, and with … still there after all these years. We campaigned for a Vietnam war veteran in South Dakota. He didn’t win. I can’t …
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| Bill Clinton Project… you come. [BREAK] Berkowitz There is a whole series of LBJ recorded conversations about the Goldberg UN appointment. … basically one of continuity, just about total continuity. LBJ left Bobby alone, Bobby left the department alone. He … transition. Edelman: Kennedy to Johnson said to me JFK to LBJ, that’s the way I heard that question. In terms of when …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in any event, there is this analogy of Jack Kennedy and LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson], and what about Ted Kennedy and … ways of trying to do this won’t work. After you bomb Vietnam long enough, you come to the conclusion that more …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the reason why you're allowed to or not allowed to like LBJ. It had to be about policy, not his accent. Both of them, … John when he came in, in his fatigues, as head of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He bivouacked in our … back and forth and using our extra phone when all of the Vietnam veterans were here. I helped him Xerox the speech …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… the detail is simply that we had worked on versions of the Vietnam plank that would allow us to avoid a confrontation on … October 1967 article in Foreign Affairs called Asia After Vietnam, which carried in it the strongest hint of what he … who was interfering with [Ngo Dinh] Diem in South Vietnam, urging the South Vietnamese not to go to the peace …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… once concerning the Soviet Union and China as related to Vietnam and the invasion of Afghanistan and so forth. But in … For one thing, there is the suspicion of Presidents after Vietnam and Watergate. The other half of the question is … and some of the things he did, unleashing Chiang Kai-Shek, LBJ and Vietnam—foreign policy never seems to be a plus in …
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| George W. Bush Project… my parents were from Brooklyn. He was between Korea and Vietnam. When he left the Marines he joined the FBI [Federal … Club boring everyone with your stories about the Vietnam War or something." So I was ready to come home. John … the people of Iraq the way we abandoned the people of Vietnam, from the rooftop of an Embassy." I loved him for …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… Watergate having been the last act of it all, of the whole Vietnam division and acrimony and so forth. It’s hard to … the buzz words. You weren’t here. You were in Georgia when Vietnam was going on, and you were somewhere else when … think your explanation of it in the context of Vietnam and Watergate is highly persuasive. The thing I …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… working on electronic warfare matters during the Vietnam War. My area was surface warfare. I was a surface … months. It was the largest naval activity since the Vietnam War when guys were working on Yankee Station with two … to the way Lyndon Johnson looked at photography during the Vietnam war, the classic picture of LBJ [Lyndon Baines …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… of the high water mark of the U.S. public reaction against Vietnam, against American involvements overseas, and the … in. I remember when I told Ford that it was all over in Vietnam, there was no point in investing any more resources … But not because of that. He became a pariah because of the Vietnam War. Young But was a master of process. Schlesinger …
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| George W. Bush Project… '67 to '71, and then in college from '71 to '75, was the Vietnam War. My general views on the Vietnam War were basically straight out of the editorial page … the very harsh rhetoric against the President: "Hey, hey, LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson]! How many boys did you kill today?" …
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| George W. Bush Project… is introverted, but they hit it off. I listened to the LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson] tapes. The guy I walked away most … you on this, but I think you’re making a mistake on this Vietnam War thing.” Or, “You need to know I’m going to oppose … to be strong against Bush, it was because he had fought in Vietnam. He had an exemplary military record. That’s fine, …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… a sense of what had happened to the country through Vietnam and Watergate. If you go back and look at those … of the government. Lyndon Johnson was the exact opposite. LBJ was much more the efficient implementer of programs, and … to have in policies that have failed. It’s a product of Vietnam in the sense of my college experience. It became …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… Eisenhower had one really, not very obvious, and certainly LBJ had his. We’re all mystified about what Carter’s style … and the Congress. You’ve got all those things, you have Vietnam and Watergate, and you’ve also got the fact that it … dumping all over Johnson in late 1967. And then Nixon, Vietnam and Watergate and all that. That’s fourteen years …
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| George W. Bush Project… draft deferments. This was at the height of the buildup in Vietnam, the spring of ’66. CIA granted no deferments, but … in terms of Iran-Contra was that it sort of built on LBJ [Lyndon B Johnson] picking targets in the Situation Room. … a major strategic failure; without having another Vietnam on our hands. I wanted to get out with our …