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Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • recall. B: Who was there from the federal government's side? Was Mr. Kennedy? R: President Kennedy was there and President Kennedy's brother, Robert Kennedy, who was then, I think-- B: Attorney General. R: That's right, Justice. And who else--I
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to President Johnson on the day or the day after the death of President Kennedy that either we had to get in there or the South Vietnamese were going to collapse and that this was the fact. And the decision in effect was made at that time subjectively
Folder, "October 29, 1968 - 1 p.m. Tuesday luncheon with Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)
  • . The President: Summarize it. Secretary Rusk: Recommend you wait to hear from Bunker. I take the long view. President Kennedy said we would make a battle there to save South Vietnam. That set us on course. After the Tonkin Gulf, you put in troops to keep South
Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • House back in the early years of the Kennedy Administration to discuss with Mac Bundy and Ralph Dungan, who was then the President's chief ''headhunter'' for finding people to take on major jobs in the Federal administration. I was invited to discuss