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… LBJ GIVES HHH ADVICE ON BRIEFINGS HHH IS TO GIVE ON ASIA; … TAX CREDIT BILL; HHH'S TRIP TO EUROPE; NATO; CHART OF VIETNAM PEACE EFFORTS …
Presidential Recordings
… ROSTOW SAYS HANOI HAS PROPOSED PARIS AS SITE FOR VIETNAM PEACE TALKS; LBJ SAYS HE PREFERS ALMOST ANY PLACE TO PARIS; QUESTION OF …
Presidential Recordings
… LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT PRESS LEAKS BY HHH ON TONKIN GULF … US MIGHT HAVE PROVOKED ATTACKS, US-USSR COMMUNICATIONS ON VIETNAM; HENRY FORD II'S VIEWS ON HHH AS POSSIBLE VP NOMINEE; …
Presidential Recordings
… HHH'S SALT LAKE CITY SPEECH ON HALTING BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM, ASKS IF US POSITION HAS CHANGED; LBJ READS FROM CREIGHTON ABRAMS' CABLE ON POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF …
Presidential Recordings
… LBJ SAYS HE HAS ASKED ATTORNEY GENERAL TO STUDY PRESS LEAKS OF VIETNAM OPERATIONAL PLANS, ASKS BALL AND MCNAMARA TO ASSEMBLE …
Presidential Recordings
… THAT GEORGE BALL APPEAR ON UK TV PROGRAM TO DISCUSS US VIETNAM POLICY; LBJ RESPONDS HE WILL CONSIDER MATTER AND CALL RUSK BACK WHEN …
Oral History Interviews
| 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, …
Oral History Interviews
| 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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… in the Executive Office Building, at Camp David and at the LBJ Ranch, and during travel. From Franklin D. Roosevelt, … (Virginia, 2014), and Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Re-election (Virginia, …
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Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… Rock to Federal Building Number 6, what’s now known as the LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson] Building. It was an eye-opener. It … President Reagan and [George H. W.] Bush 41. I remember LBJ getting elected in 1964. I remember the yard signs in my …
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… edited many of his most memorable addresses while advising LBJ on strategies to deescalate the war in Vietnam and repair race relations in a time of violent …
If a president gave an Oval Office address and the networks refused to air it, would it make a sound? This is not, most likely, a question that occupies philosophers, but it does cause White House communications staffers to wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat.
Presidential Biographies
… race and class, and the unraveling accelerated during the Vietnam War. The business community and many rank-and-file … election was a reaffirmation of the New Deal and LBJ's "Great Society," but Goldwater carried five states in … by the interlocking traumas of Watergate and the Vietnam War. Reagan's strategists believed that if he scored …
Presidential Biographies
… Soviets, who Goldwater believed were waging a proxy war in Vietnam. Goldwater contended that the Republican Party, … with the Democrats and on October 27, 1964, a week before LBJ's landslide victory, found one in the person of Reagan. …
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… LEFT The Miller Center's Guian McKee writes how LBJ demonstrated what not to do when dealing with a … in the aftermath of his landslide 1964 election victory. LBJ provides a negative model: what Biden should not do in … Yet all was not well. Protests against the war in Vietnam and rebellions against racial injustice in American …
UVA Institute of Democracy experts assess the latest developments as the new president settles into office
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… was kind of a nasty Kissinger editorial harkening back to Vietnam and just beating up on him generally, and then … for doing that? We saw "All the Way" last night, about LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson], and I suspect that while the two had …
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… resignation of Henry Cabot Lodge as ambassador to South Vietnam). Date : June 23, 1964 Time : 8:35 p.m., 8:50 p.m. …
Although many feared the worst, none of them knew for certain that a band of white supremacists associated with the Ku Klux Klan and the Neshoba County Sheriff’s Department had murdered them on a rural roadway.
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… shift is very real and was emphasized in the conflict in Vietnam. People simply won’t hold to the old concept, nor … If the Attorney General said, I am sorry, Mr. President, LBJ would have said, Thank you for your service to your … of elitism that exceeded anything we conceived of in the Vietnam period. So, even when one looks at that period of …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… energy, we did a PRM on youth employment, we did a PRM on Vietnam veterans, we did a PRM on non-fuel minerals, we had a … looks back at Lyndon Johnson in his darkest hours, with Vietnam crashing in around him, he had a whole group of … Just last week I read Joe Califano’s oral history in the LBJ library, and he presents a picture of Johnson empowering …