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Oral History Interviews
… Watergate having been the last act of it all, of the whole Vietnam division and acrimony and so forth. It’s hard to … only southern. You saw some of this, I think also, with LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson], some of this kind of derogation …
Oral History Interviews
… '67 to '71, and then in college from '71 to '75, was the Vietnam War. My general views on the Vietnam War were … the very harsh rhetoric against the President: "Hey, hey, LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson]! How many boys did you kill today?" …
Oral History Interviews
… 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 …
Public Events
… East Coast corridor and the West Coast corridor. FACTOID: LBJ was first president to back high speed rail as part of … biography arguing that peace talks between the U.S. and Vietnam were sabotaged in 1968 by presidential candidate …
Oral History Interviews
… 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
… 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. …
Oral History Interviews
… Rock to Federal Building Number 6, what’s now known as the LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson] Building. It was an eye-opener. It … They had been selling Harley Davidsons successfully in Vietnam. We identified a reporter from USA Today who would go …
Oral History Interviews
… 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 …
Oral History Interviews
… During my time in college, I spent one summer as an LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson] intern. This was an intern … difference. None of my brothers or boyfriends had been in Vietnam. Actually I have gone out with someone who can tell …
Oral History Interviews
… 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 …
Oral History Interviews
… political influence to get into the National Guard during Vietnam. This became a big blowup immediately after Quayle’s … I went to Austin to give the commencement address at the LBJ School that I got in an airplane. But that just points …
Oral History Interviews
… 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 …