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  • Contributor > Deason, Willard, 1905-1997 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • troubled. He wasn't his same old humorous self that he normally was. But he [was] trying to make up his mind whether or not he would approve additional military men being sent to Vietnam. He said, "[Robert] McNamara tells me it's the thing to do
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the thirty-first speech. Now I want to shift to what we might call another chapter in my observations of LBJ and the presidency and that period of time and discuss what I and other folks have referred to as the Kennedy cult. Not the Kennedy clan. The Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , his accepting it? D: No, I really wasn't. Tell you what I did. After Kennedy was nominated on the first ballot--of course, I was disappointed--I got on the plane and carne on horne. F: But not surprised? D: Not surprised, no. I got there a day