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  • , at all of it? G: A congressman by the name of Elliott-- K: Carl Elliott? G: --from Alabama was chairman of that. this was very much on his mind. There isn't any question that We had at that time Graham Barden as the chairman of the Education
  • INTERVIEWEE: DANIEL O. GRAHAM INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Graham's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: All right, sir, go ahead. DG: Let me tell you first my connections with the Vietnam affair. It probably started back in about
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  • Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger
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  • to make responsible decisions. 1I And like everybody else I supported him very actively. And so the end of the first period of our relationship was rather funny. As you probably know, Phil Graham and I had gone to President Kennedy at the critical
  • Early acquaintance with LBJ; how LBJ related to the press as a senator; Alsop's interactions with LBJ; Alsop's support of LBJ in 1964 against Goldwater; Alsop's and Philip Graham's role in JFK's selection of LBJ as the vice-presidential nominee
  • ? That's a good question, and this is the one that we've asked each other in the last few days. Basically, our memory--and I'm speaking of ours as Danny Graham's, Charlie Morris ' , and mine, and it makes some sense--[is] that as soon as they got within
  • that assignment that I finally went to work for [Henry] Cabot Lodge in the embassy as the mission coordinator and stayed there in that job, or one like it, throughout all the rest of the ambassadors, all of Ambassador [Ellsworth] Bunker's tour and all of Graham
  • Lodge got Jacobson a position in the State Department as mission coordinator; Jacobson's opinion of Graham Martin, Maxwell Taylor, Ellsworth Bunker, Creighton Abrams, and Frederick Weyand; Ed Lansdale's 1965 trip to Vietnam and the work of a group under
  • dissolved it. M: You have written that Ambassadors Graham Martin in Thailand and William Sullivan in Laos were reluctant to yield to you on military points you considered essential. W: Would you give examples of this? I remark on this on pages 76-77
  • Graham's shop, Estimates and Current Intelligence, working totally separate from my group, gradually arrived at essentially the same conclusion, I believe, that at least a major effort was coming. By the end of November or certainly by the first part
  • was represented--by this time the so-called Adams position was the CIA position, and there was a whole line-up of CIA analysts on the CIA side. Representing MACV was the then-Colonel Daniel Graham, a captain called Kelly Robinson, a marine colonel called Paul
  • ; the Kennedy staff that stayed to work for LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with the press compared to that of previous presidents; (dis)advantages of getting close to the president; LBJ’s relationship with Phil and Kay Graham; Great Society speech; type of access press
  • , and I'll understand why you wouldn't, but Lansdale was a rather legendary figure I think in the press and popularly, although I think Graham Greene didn't think as much of him as a good many other people and saw him as rather a sinister figure than
  • : Yes. Straighten me out. W: That's right. Frank Graham had left by now. Frank Graham had left the United States Senate. He was defeated in 1950; served on until January, 1951. F: I knew him fairly well. What was your impression? alize after
  • was the attorney general who had to make the legal decision which led to sending the troops in. I was talking a good deal with Rogers on the phone, and through the late publisher of the Washington Post, who was very cl ose to Lyndon-F: Phil Graham. A: --Graham
  • Corps, thirty . So I was moving covering something new . all the time ; I was always dis­ Whereas my colleagues come back to the States and gone that situation, around G: Did you know Graham Greene? B: No, I did not, and I regret
  • hotshots in there. So I got two of them, the two best in the army: Charley Morris, whose name I've already given you, and the other is Danny Graham, both of them excellent intelligence officers; both of them had worked for me and knew how I worked; both