Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan

Working for the New York Times; Salisbury's trip to the Far East in 1966; getting permission to go to Hanoi; a possible connection between Salisbury's visit to Hanoi and the Marigold negotiations; trying to convince the Vietnamese that, as a reporter, he had no political agenda; Pham Van Dong's off-the-record comments; private negotiations between the U.S. and North Vietnam; keeping contact with the U.S. while he was in North Vietnam; press access to information Salisbury found out while in Hanoi; meeting with Bill Bundy and Dean Rusk to give them his impressions of his Hanoi visit; Bill Bundy; trying to see LBJ to tell him about Hanoi; Art Sylvester; speaking publicly about his book; LBJ's relationship with the New York Times; the Post-Times-Newsweek 'axis'; Johnson's credibility.