Item COLD WAR 27/45 - Transcript of interview with Jack Valenti, Special Assistant to President Lyndon Johnson, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Jack Joseph Valenti, Special Assistant to US President Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1966, and Chairman, Alliance Motion Picture and Television Producers Incorporated, 1966-[1996], relating to the US involvement in Vietnam, 1961-1975, the impact of the 'domino theory', a notion that if one country becomes communist, other states in the region would probably follow, on US foreign policy, 1961-1969; the impact of the policies of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, US President 1961-1963, and his successor Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969; the influence of Robert Strange McNamara, US Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968, on Johnson's prosecution of the war; Johnson's change in policy on Vietnam following the presidential election, 1964; the impact of television reporting of the war in Vietnam on US public opinion; the decision of Johnson not to seek re-election, 1968; policies of Richard Milhous Nixon, US President 1969-1974, concerning a new US offensive in Vietnam, 1968. 24pp