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  • Bock, who was-G: How do you spell that last name? D: B-O-C-K. He was a leader of the Veterans for Peace in Chicago, and he was a member of the national executive committee, representing them, of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War
  • met with--the correspondents were very angry and we met with Bill--what's his name? He is over in Beirut now, head of the Tribune bureau over there, Chicago Tribune. M: Could you tell me what you found about Vietnam then? H: Well, you know, people
  • , in the fall before the convention, and moved up to Chicago. Then we got tangled up in the long primary fight with Estes Kefauver, which we tried to avoid and couldn't. That meant an endless campaign, beginning in Minnesota and running all the way through
  • bit about how you came to be what you are in life. W: Well, I was lucky enough to get a scholarship at the University of Chicago. F: I've taught there. W: And by working my way through there, I was able to get a degree in law and practice law. F
  • blunder on our part. We thought--Shriver thought that he had Mayor Daley's concurrence in putting the project on. There had been much discussion prior to its funding about its being operated by the Chicago Community Action organization, CCUO
  • it in the Herald Tribune, but I didn't associate it with me. I mean, I never have sought any kind of office, any kind of political thing--any! show how he dealt. But I tell this to Now to prove it to you, when I went to see him and I told him, "Mr. President
  • Katzenbach as attorney general; presidents’ interaction with the State Department; May 1966 trip to Chicago; LBJ’s opinions of the U.S. role in Vietnam; LBJ’s assessment of his own staff; Tonkin Gulf resolution; Lindley Rule and press access to LBJ
  • was living in Japan, Dien and I began to hear and read about this place called and so I went down there for the Chicago Daily News what turned out to be the end of to the Viet Minh Dien Bien Phu fell Accords . it . and at the time of the Geneva
  • everybody about it, and the Chicago Tribune did, and they damn near got their ass in jail. And they should've. But all the questions from the Congress, all the questions from the media, the answers sometimes are well known, but they are given
  • The President doesn't like your work, so for God sakes, be careful." I could, from time to time, sense a nervousness when Maggie Higgins was out there. She came out from the [New York Herald] Tribune and did a series of bizarre stories. She was only
  • -May. H: Yes. F: The war crimes trial had ended just before you got there, right? H: The Russell Tribunal--the so-called Russell Tribunal. F: Right. Did that leave some kind of a situation for you to walk into? How did, for instance, Prime
  • Building of LBJ Library; Heath named Swedish Ambassador in March, confirmed April 1967; Russell Tribunal; three groups in Sweden: hard-core ant-Americans, Communists, pro-Americans; race and Vietnam both issues in Sweden; experiences of Tanzanian
  • was another. M: Did any of them ever do it? N: No. The only successful effort came in connection with our Johnson book. It was rather widely syndicated in newspapers in installments. The [New York] World Journal Tribune, short-lived, was started in 1966
  • important person, so he got an immense amount of attention in Utah. Television wasn't quite as big then as it's become later, but I well remember that after his Saturday speech, the first page of the Salt Lake Tribune, which is the large newspaper
  • tribunal--visiting North Vietnam. They were from the communist countries, and he toured the country with them but in his tapes or his statements he would say, "I'm not a member of the tribunal." But he was with them; his statements cooperated with them
  • in the coffee shop of the hotel in Fort Worth. F: Texas. W: The Texas Hotel in Fort Worth. What is it, the . . . ? I remember sitting there with John Connally and somebody from his staff, and Doug Kiker, who was then at the Herald Tribune, and Bo Byers, I