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Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb
Balance of payments deficit and program; Walter Heller; 1967 pound devaluation; gold speculation; two-tier idea; Guido Carli; gold cover limitation; Senator Wallace Bennett; SDR; Eddie Bernstein; International Monetary Fund
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Douglas Dillon; Jack Connor; Henry Fowler; restructuring international finances; Work Party Three; Bob Roosa; Group of Ten; Denis Rickett; Frank Figures; Khrister Wichman; Ottmar Emminger; Rinaldo Ossola; Frank Schiff; Peter…
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Personal opposition to official policy in Vietnam; National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam; SANE; MOBE; NCAC; role of television; counterculture; assignation attempt of Dellinger; travels to Vietnam; meeting with Ho Chi Minh
Oral history transcript, Marjorie A. Delafield, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1968, by Paul Bolton
Work with Rebekah Baines Johnson on the Johnson family genealogy; Mrs. Johnson's hope for her son
Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; time in New Orleans at Tulane University; studying in Europe; member of the Department of Surgery at Tulane; military service in 1942-1944 with the Surgeon General; post-war medical research program with the Veterans'…
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ-Deason contacts while teaching in Houston and San Antonio; LBJ becomes secretary to Congressman Kleberg; LBJ returns as state director of NYA; Welly Hopkins' recommendation; LBJ's energy; Wilton Woods; LBJ at state meeting in Corpus Christi of…
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information;1927 meeting with LBJ at SWTSC; activities at SWTSC; taught school in San Antonio; A.J. Wirtz and Welly Hopkins recommending LBJ to Dick Kleberg; relationship between Kleberg and LBJ; NYA work; LBJ's interest in helping…
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb
Appointment and confirmation to the ICC; Charles Webb; farm co-op cases; structure of ICC; regulation; record disposal; appeals to board of suspension; determination of rates/fair profit; merger cases; LBJ's appointment of Virginia Mae Brown; work…
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman
Student with LBJ at San Marcos Southwest Texas Teachers College, 1927; details of student expenses, influences and habits; LBJ's graduation in three years from a four-year plan; experiences as a teacher in Pearsall and Houston; Director of NYA in…
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 3 (III), 4/3/1969, by David G. McComb
Organization and operation of DOT; the audit function; decentralization; friction between the Office of the Secretary and Administrators; difficulties within the Office of Secretary itself; evaluation of Alan Boyd; meetings and retreats; concept of…
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb
Fast passage of the bill; final version of the bill; role of the unions; problem of Maritime Administration; appointment of Alan Boyd; Dean's appointment; acquiring staff and office space; organization of DOT; field offices; White House role in…
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; early support of and work toward a transportation department; recollections of Najeeb Halaby; LBJ assumes presidency; Alan Boyd and others involved in development of DOT; opposition to DOT by FAA and McKee; Dean's…
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
Coverage of 1959 Khrushchev visit; Khrushchev's dislike of the press; Mesta Machine Tool Company tour; JFK's choice of LBJ as VP; reflections on JFK's trip to Texas in 1963 and the days following the assassination; experience as a witness to LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Circumstances leading to employment by the Johnson
Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; General Harold K. Johnson; Lieutenant General Fred Dean; William C. Foster; Vietnam; Spurgeon Keeney; ACDA; critical decisions in weapons evaluations; ABM's; MIRVS; Space Treaty; Non-Proliferation Treaty; Arms Transfer…
Oral history transcript, W. True Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb
Discusses the selection of LBJ as VP in 1960; his appointments; Inter-American Development Bank
Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Background; Oscar Chapman; SBA; Eugene Foley; relationship between White House staff and agencies; coordination; OEO program for Indians; AID; Economic Development Administration's programs
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Summary of army career; involvement in intelligence regarding Vietnam; replacing General McChristian in Saigon; differences in McChristian and Davidson; "the Weekly Intelligence Estimate Update;" Creighton Abrams; counterintelligence; pattern…
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Summary of army career; involvement in intelligence regarding Vietnam; replacing General McChristian in Saigon; differences in McChristian and Davidson; "the Weekly Intelligence Estimate Update;" Creighton Abrams; counterintelligence; pattern…
Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
First acquaintance with LBJ in 1942; LBJ's request of Daniels to write speeches for John McCormack; LBJ's relations with President Roosevelt; assessment of LBJ as a young Congressman; concern about administration of Rural Electrification…
Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Details of political career and first contacts with LBJ when he was a Congressman; background of tidelands legislation; 1952 Senate race against Tom Connally; support of Eisenhower's presidential race; weekly meetings of Texas Congressional…
Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Comparison of service as Executive Director for the U.S., International Monetary Fund in JFK and LBJ administrations; LBJ policy to draw eastern bloc states of communist countries into IMF; duties of IMF position; role and actions of "Deming Group"…
Oral history transcript, Lloyd N. Cutler, interview 1 (I), 4/12/1969, by William Helmer
Biographical information; role of lawyers in government service; Tightrope Committee/Federal Aviation Administration; service with OEO; Business Leadership Advisory Council; Job Corps; Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; opinion of LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
Service with LBJ in the House and Senate; characterization of LBJ's leadership qualities in the Senate; comparison of LBJ to Senators Knowland and Dirksen; LBJ's timing in bringing bills to the floor; recollections of specific bills and resolutions;…
Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Dallas police department career and military service in the Air Force; arrangements for dignitary visits to Dallas; description of the parade and arrangements for JFK's visit; assassination; trip to the airport and the…
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; involvement with Roosevelt's administration; newspapers' importance to the government; summary of politics in New York State when Roosevelt was governor; genesis of the New Deal; Harvard graduates in FDR's administration;…
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; involvement with Roosevelt's administration; newspapers' importance to the government; summary of politics in New York State when Roosevelt was governor; genesis of the New Deal; Harvard graduates in FDR's administration;…
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger
LBJ's trips to Vietnam in 1966 and 1967; LBJ's mood about Vietnam; LBJ's relationship with the military; LBJ and LeMay, McConnell, Wheeler, Moymer, Abrams, Westmoreland and Haig; aspects of the role of a military aide; LBJ and Humphrey; LBJ and…
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer
Military biography; flights with LBJ when Majority Leader, VP, President and as permanent pilot; appointment in July 1965 as military aide to LBJ; military aides for White House social events; operations of presidential flights; communications on…
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; education; military service; first meeting with LBJ; Crooker's son's debate team defeated by the LBJ-coached team; 1948 Senate election; controversy and suit regarding the 1948 election and Crooker's involvement;…
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's VP trip to Senegal; Bill Moyers; John Rooney; May 1961 Asian trip: Saigon and Diem, Philippines and Marcos, Formosa, Bangkok, India and Pakistan; Dag Hammarskjold funeral in 1961; Beirut; Iran; Turkey; Cyprus; Greece; LBJ's paranoia regarding…
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Contacts with LBJ as Senator in 1958 while a budget officer for the State Department; LBJ's reactions to State Department's "guidance" for his foreign country visits as VP; LBJ's concern for good impressions by his party in foreign countries; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; forest service background; establishment of BOR; Joe Penfold; Conservation Fund; legislation passed in 1968; Stewart Udall; Golden Eagle Passport; Corp of Engineers; cooperation with other agencies; Bureau of Reclamation;…
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; forest service background; establishment of BOR; Joe Penfold; Conservation Fund; legislation passed in 1968; Stewart Udall; Golden Eagle Passport; Corp of Engineers; cooperation with other agencies; Bureau of Reclamation;…
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; LBJ's appointment as director of the Texas NYA; Aubrey Williams; Maury Maverick; first contact with LBJ; state budgets; NYA organization; state directors; Congressman Buchanan; advisory boards; Richard Brown; NYA-WPA…
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964;…
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964;…