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Oral History Interviews
… 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 …
Oral History Interviews
… them rose to the level of me questioning those things. The Vietnam stuff was probably a little more—I could see the case … Texas. I assume you are probably familiar, but where the LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson] School is, there's that big fountain …
Public Events
… Presidential Recordings Program. “That honor goes to Vietnam.” Straight from the early 1960s barked the voice of … Carolina, believes is the most sincere political moment of LBJ’s life: Johnson had almost quit. He’d prepared a press …
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… their discussion of a possible presidential commission on Vietnam that might head-off an insurgent campaign by Sen. … and Chicago mayor Richard J. "Dick" Daley considered LBJ’s idea of simply inviting RFK to meet with Clark M. …
Listen to President Johnson from March 1968 as he searches for answers before making a surprise announcement
Oral History Interviews
… than any President since—and I'm not sure whom to say. LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson] was probably fairly versatile; [John … naive predictions that democracy will spread naturally. No Vietnam-type false statements of how military means will …
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… Johnson. Hoover, however, was not telling the truth. While LBJ had ordered several kinds of FBI surveillance in 1968 to find out whether Nixon was sabotaging his Vietnam peace negotiations, bugging the nominee’s campaign …
Oral History Interviews
… 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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… in Laos, his resistance to an American combat role in Vietnam, and his rejection of lethal force in resolving the … 30 Jun 1965, with McNamara telling LBJ that they were wrong in the Bay of Pigs not for doing it …
“Who would want to read a book on disasters?” That was the question John F. Kennedy put to an aide in late 1961 upon hearing that journalists were thinking about writing books on the first year of his presidency. It was a loaded question, as Kennedy was quite familiar with the book market, having written two popular volumes of history, including one on a political and military disaster. And there was no denying that his previous 12 months had been filled with foreign policy missteps—the most notable being the failed invasion at Cuba’s Bay of Pigs.
Oral History Interviews
… people behave. In the 1960s, with respect to the war in Vietnam—the protests over it—the leaking of national security … some time—maybe after [John F.] Kennedy, or during LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson], when the neutral competence ceased …
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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 …
The next president must weigh carefully the decision to go to war
Oral History Interviews
… [Department of Defense] budget was starting to shift. In Vietnam, they wanted to build up actual ground troops, but … Jefferson] Clinton’s second term and now dean of the LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson] public policy school in Texas. I …
Oral History Interviews
… had upset him in the primary in 1970 when the whole anti-Vietnam and counterculture thing was at white heat, … ranches as their retreats. One was Reagan, the other was LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson]. Teddy Roosevelt had a ranch out …
Presidential Biographies
… frequently with President Lyndon B. Johnson after LBJ committed combat troops to Vietnam. Eisenhower wrote two volumes of memoirs about his …
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… sought to derail the opening of peace talks to end the Vietnam War—negotiations that the Lyndon B. Johnson White … picture of that extra-governmental diplomacy, and LBJ shared the thrust of his findings in telephone …
The revelations about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ discussions with Russian officials in 2016 signal that the Logan Act may once again be back in the news
Oral History Interviews
… 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 … it, it’s a great book. Why does Kennedy stop talking about Vietnam after February of 1966? He doesn’t say anything about …
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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 …
No president in the 20th or 21st centuries has been denied nomination by his party—which is a good sign for President Trump.
Presidential Recordings
… LBJ ASKS ABOUT OPTIMISTIC PRESS REPORTS ON BATTLE IN VIETNAM; USIA IN VIETNAM; HENRY CABOT LODGE; PRESS CRITICISM …
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 …
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… Milkis and Daniel J. Tichenor President Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam, December 23, 1967 [image courtesy National Archives] … Movement: Views from the Front Line" [image courtesy LBJ Presidential Library] The Democratic National …
The uneasy collaboration between Lyndon Johnson and the civil rights movement marked a development more than fifty years in the making thanks to the advent of the modern presidency during the Progressive Era.
Presidential Recordings
… LBJ REPORTS ON SUCCESS OF MANILA CONFERENCE AND ASIAN TRIP; SITUATION IN VIETNAM; GERALD FORD'S RECENT CRITICAL COMMENTS ON VIETNAM; …