Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Title:
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Number of Pages:
40
Description:
Informing Vice-President LBJ of international affairs; announcing that the U.S. would be out of Vietnam by 1965; Sullivan’s appointment and work as chairman of Interagency Task Force on Vietnam; contingency planning to get North Vietnamese to negotiate; drafting a congressional resolution and comparing it to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution; meeting with Canadian officials about U.S. negotiation goals; J. Blair Seaborn; LBJ balancing time devoted to domestic affairs vs. Vietnam; how Sullivan was chosen to go to Saigon; Max Taylor and his military advisor group; summer of 1964 in Saigon; Sullivan’s WWII experience; attack from the North Vietnamese; how he was named ambassador to Laos; bombing of Laotian infiltration routes; war in Laos; awareness of Vietnam situation; receiving word of Hanoi’s willingness to discuss beginning negotiations; picking Paris as the site for negotiations.
