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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… a—there was a big story in Paris about a peace feeler on Vietnam to Bobby. Bobby said he never heard of it, didn’t … at all. He’s done everything right. But I do fault him on Vietnam. But I never got any peace offer. Then the phone rang … him often, and never in flattering terms. Germany On the LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson] recordings, when they talk, it’s …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… at that time—and then came back and was a real hawk on the Vietnam War, very strong pro-war. He had had a very good … eight minutes I think it was. I talked generally about Vietnam—I was critical. We hadn’t gotten to the point of the … in the Senate or out in the country for opposition to LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson]—as distinct from his …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy discusses the Vietnam War and the lessons he learned from it. … with Senator Kennedy, and our broad subject today is the Vietnam conflict, refugees, and the collateral problems of … lottery. Young You said he was nervous at the beginning, LBJ was—he didn’t know what he would be hearing. I think most …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… there was this reputed tension between Bobby Kennedy and LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson]. I’m just wondering about Edward … the war. He hadn’t been as polarizing. So in relation to LBJ. I remember the first time I met LBJ. I went with Ted to … first year, and it was just at the time of the buildup in Vietnam. The bombing had been February and the troop buildup …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… up almost by coincidence. It was partly a product of the Vietnam War. For years there had been some support in the … the issue. In 1969, and certainly in 1970 and 1971, as the Vietnam War dragged on, there was much concern about what was … Assistant Secretary with Treasury for Tax Policy in the LBJ Administration and in JFK’s [John Fitzgerald Kennedy] …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… law was very important. It was important the day of the Vietnam evacuation. The law is still on the books in one form … it in a foreign policy context. So, when he talked about Vietnam, it wasn't just about these refugees; he ended up … I'm sure we'll go into much greater detail on the ones to Vietnam and elsewhere, but I'm curious. How autonomous were …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… political careers. There is extensive discussion of the Vietnam War. The 1972 presidential campaign is discussed in … the strong anti-war movement that developed around the Vietnam issue that the more traditional Senators did not pick … and because I knew that he was struggling with that issue, LBJ, how many kids have you killed today? and all those …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… years when Nixon had to leave. It was also the time of the Vietnam War, and also, of course, this was right after the … up until that time. As you know, this was the end of the LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson] Presidency. I want to say Stuart … had been killed; Dr. King had been killed; the war in Vietnam was raging, and so you had all these demonstrations …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of the speeches, especially if they had, for example, any Vietnam aspect to them—and in 1967, a speech to a group of young people would have had a couple of lines on Vietnam— Had there been a prepared text, it probably would … the person who was writing, was involved with, most of the Vietnam stuff. Had it been in the regular order, there would …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and a lot of good friends were supporting it. Young Did LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson] and Dirksen lead you down the garden … back, I went to Dulles airport and got on the plane to Vietnam, and the person seated next to me was Joe Tydings—all the way to L.A., all the way to Vietnam. Young He was going to Vietnam? Kennedy He was going …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… a nuclear attack by China or the Soviet Union. As the LBJ administration was ending in 1968 and [Richard] Nixon was … the mantle of Robert Kennedy in terms of opposition to the Vietnam War. Young He had started out supporting the Vietnam War. Parker He wasn’t opposed to it in the early …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and met him, and he said, My son has just been killed in Vietnam, and I’d like to go back to the United States, but … had probably as high a percentage of people who died in Vietnam—I think it was 32 or 33 from Woburn, a blue-collar … or five votes shy. Then I left that afternoon and went to Vietnam. It was the first time I went to Vietnam, probably …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… would do it. Ted says in this memo of his meeting with LBJ, Lyndon says, ‘Do you really want this?’ and Ted says, I … Bobby’s going to run, we’re never going to win with LBJ because of Vietnam, but it was very discreet because of the sensitivity …
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| Gerald Ford Project… Johnson or someone else. Whereas [Lyndon Baines Johnson] LBJ was perfectly free when he took over, and indeed all of … in the cabinet and so forth, the kinds of pressures that LBJ, for example, never had to face. And I think it was a … address these questions of destabilizers, which was a post-Vietnam environment, the tinderbox situation in the Middle …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… because of the nominees coming up and because of the Vietnam War—which continued to be a major conflict—and a lot … did it with regard to the discussion of going into South Vietnam. He has [Richard] Russell’s and [J. William] Fulbright’s voices discussing Vietnam. He had it for macro events. Nixon must have heard …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… moving with the things his brother had started and that LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson] was carrying forward. He has …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… [Department of Defense] budget was starting to shift. In Vietnam, they wanted to build up actual ground troops, but … much, and started running for President and trying to get Vietnam stopped. Knott Do you have any take on why you think …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… to the experience of the ’60s with [John F.] Kennedy and LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson], the world was a much more difficult … pass. You’ve got to worry about it, but as in the case of LBJ, you turn it over to Joe Califano and a task force and … that was not a problem in a number of areas. Hargrove LBJ and FDR would keep their options, so is it unique? …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… for almost his entire career, except possibly for Vietnam. Parker Yes, those were the two. We started out with …
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| Bill Clinton Project… than any President since—and I'm not sure whom to say. LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson] was probably fairly versatile; [John … in the community—you would know better than I—that the LBJ Library is really a great Presidential library and not as …