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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… for almost his entire career, except possibly for Vietnam. Parker Yes, those were the two. We started out with …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
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… York Times the Top Secret Defense Department history of Vietnam that became known as the Pentagon Papers. Both … Bombings Laos and Cambodia, the two nations on South Vietnam’s western border, unwillingly provided the “Ho Chi … strategy from Vietnam. Nixon’s announced strategy was “Vietnamization and negotiation,” his slogan for training the …
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… by painting his GOP rival as a warmonger. Yet, ironically, LBJ’s own piecemeal approach to Vietnam destroyed his presidency. He began the war without … Nixon campaigned in 1968 on a promise to end the war in Vietnam. Yet his end-game meant doubling down on Johnson’s …
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… Kennedy (D-N.Y.) to enter the race. Two weeks later, LBJ made a stunning speech from the Oval Office, declaring: … of McCarthy and Kennedy had pushed the president—mired in Vietnam War controversy and running at a 36 percent approval …
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Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Presidential Recordings
… LBJ ASKS ABOUT OPTIMISTIC PRESS REPORTS ON BATTLE IN VIETNAM; USIA IN VIETNAM; HENRY CABOT LODGE; PRESS CRITICISM OF LBJ; UPCOMING TRIP BY MCNAMARA, EARLE WHEELER TO VIETNAM; LBJ …
Presidential Recordings
… LBJ AND MANSFIELD DISCUSS LANGUAGE OF MANSFIELD'S UPCOMING SPEECH ON PEACE IN VIETNAM; LBJ'S VIEWS ON VIETNAM AS OUTLINED IN HIS JOHNS HOPKINS' …
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… Grounds. Frederick E. Nolting Jr., ambassador to South Vietnam from 1961 to 1963 under President John F. Kennedy, … Johnson Presidential Library and Foundation to create the LBJ Telephone Tapes website, lbjtapes.org . Anticipating a …
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Presidential Recordings
… LBJ REPORTS ON SUCCESS OF MANILA CONFERENCE AND ASIAN TRIP; SITUATION IN VIETNAM; GERALD FORD'S RECENT CRITICAL COMMENTS ON VIETNAM; LBJ'S UPCOMING SURGERY; LBJ OFFERS TO SEND MCCORMACK …
Presidential Recordings
… LBJ DISCUSSES NEED TO CONTINUE BOMBING NORTH VIETNAM, POSSIBLE NEW ENEMY OFFENSIVE, CANDIDATE HHH'S VIEWS ON VIETNAM; LBJ'S CONCERNS ABOUT EFFECT OF PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ON …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Presidential Recordings
… LBJ'S, RFK'S VIEWS ON VIETNAM; MILITARY, POLITICAL, … SOLUTIONS; HENRY CABOT LODGE; CONGRESSIONAL OPPOSITION TO VIETNAM POLICY; RFK RECOMMENDS MEETING ON VIETNAM SIMILAR TO …
Presidential Recordings
… LBJ REPORTS ON HIS MEETING WITH MAXWELL TAYLOR WHO ACCEPTED AMBASSADORSHIP TO VIETNAM; U. ALEXIS JOHNSON; POSSIBLE PRESS CONFERENCE BY LBJ ON VIETNAM; PRESS STORY ON MARINE DIVISION GOING TO …
Presidential Recordings
… LBJ REPORTS ON HIS MEETING WITH MAXWELL TAYLOR WHO ACCEPTED AMBASSADORSHIP TO VIETNAM; U. ALEXIS JOHNSON; POSSIBLE PRESS CONFERENCE BY LBJ ON VIETNAM; PRESS STORY ON MARINE DIVISION GOING TO …
Presidential Recordings
… LBJ CONTINUES TO REPORT ON EISENHOWER'S VIEWS ON VIETNAM; CONGRESSIONAL STATEMENTS IN SUPPORT OF VIETNAM … POLICY; AGREEMENT AMONG US OFFICIALS ON VIETNAM POLICY; LBJ ASKS ABOUT LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION FOR UNIDENTIFIED …