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Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

/loh/oh Helms -- II -- 9 Vietnamese and staying behind the scenes, had been advising them on political warfare and covert action and things of this kind. So when he went back again, was sent back again and wrote this report in 1961, obviously

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the signing ceremony, trying to bring in everybody we could think of in the various transportation interests including all of the modes, some of the suppliers, and such organizations as the Transportation Association of America and the National Freight Traffic

Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and '64 and so forth and so on. M: What happens to bureaucrats who push an idea like that so hard and lose? What happened to the theologians? Did the President take some kind of action against them later? L: No, one of the fellows who had been

Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

have to write them a memorandum saying that someone had committed a federal crime--please investigate it, because that's the only form which evoked action. So, I don't think it was just a matter of attitude although I think the attitude of Mr. Hoover

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of a particular bureau and [because of] the failure of the bureau to take certain action, or the taking of certain actions that were detrimental to whatever matter was involved, you'd try to do something about it. And it would finally lead you to the conclusion

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

House level then? T: Generally so, yes. The National Export Expansion Council recommendations did . go to the President; he received them. Jack Connor and I and Joe Fowler in 1966 took these Action Committee reports and the three chairmen

Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that they've done the wrong thing. I used to be a very timid person and even up until I was sixty years of age very cautious about expressing an opinion. But the one thing that would loosen my indignation and drive me into action was somebody doing

Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was pressing for joint action in resolving the crisis in the Middle East, Kosygin seems to have been more interested in Vietnam. Was this your--? K: Yes, very much so. Vietnam occupied much more time than the Middle East G: People have talked and written

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that was pending in a committee, why, we would just call the committee clerk or somebody over there and find out what the situation was, when it was going to come up for hearing or whether it had or what action had been taken, and we'd write back and say it's

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the picture, and then we'd try to think of how could it have been done better. And one of the programs that we looked at which had been a very special program and all was the combined action platoons, that is, the CAP teams--that was a special marine program

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the, the French to us, Mr. Erhard and indeed the MLF was dead before there's with on !Ludwii} wasn't, and supporting in not always the MLF. wisdom to say that learn issues the killing action Fowler were. government, firm and tough M: with we

Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the suggestions of Mr. Stevenson that were not taken. But I think he agreed with the final action, so I don't think there was any real decision that way. But during this thing, as it was going along, there were clearly differences of views put forth. I think

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

they were thrown into action in a distant country against a very elusive enemy. But fortunately, beginning in 1962 under President Kennedy, our Armed Forces had been directed to prepare themselves for this kind of combat. Hence they entered Vietnam LBJ

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of action more people than the enemy was capable of recruiting from in-country sources and infiltrating from North Vietnam. G: Do you know what the infiltration rate would have been at about that time? M: Without looking back through the documents, I can

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

we got the Bulgarians' agreement just a couple of weeks after Dorset's departure. And then we signed the agreement itself early, I believe, in July, soon after the fourth of July. P: Did you see evidence of an independence of action in Bulgaria

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to manipulation, and I'm sure most people, commanders, would like to report as many killed in action and so forth as possible. So, I think it was probably an unfortunate thing to get into, actually. I don't recall our trying to do that in World War II or World War

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. It was also decided to give the student cadre constructive credits toward graduation from the course, so that the time that they were actually doing civic actions and relief work in Saigon, they would actually be moving toward graduation in the normal time

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, and totally rebuild it, everything: transportation, schools, medical care, housing, parks, recreation, everything, streets. And say, "Look, you can do it. You can rebuild the cities of America." It was quite a dream

Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to This action was performed to The area was wide-open land with no place to cover the parachute. To reach Eddie I walked through the narrow creek of water. cold. It was On reaching Eddie I learned he had a possible broken shoulder. He was not aware of how

Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

sessions out of which program actions could be taken, where groups would meet sequentially over a period of three or four years, and then, the subject having been brought to a point that seemed adequate, it would be dropped and other subjects would

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

an awful lot of heat and he wanted some action. And out of that came such things as the appointment of [James] Killian as the first science adviser in the intimate areas of the White House around the president instead of off to one side, and the National

Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 2 (II), 5/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

not talking I suppose, because I'm not really in a position to talk about, what it means for America's position in the world. I have my own personal ideas, but I'm not really a particularly expert witness on that subject As far as the army is concerned, I

Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, it was never approved by Fulbright's committee, the thing was postponed . about the war and the cost of the war . and action did not take place . of this . M: He was? B: Oh yes, Anyway, and they were worried Congress adjourned Senator Fulbright

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, but no action is likely to happen unless somebody pushes it. When we got back, we started to push. And as a result of this, a telegram did go out to Lodge a day or two after we got back which was pretty forthcoming. To be sure it contained an awful lot

Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

/show/loh/oh Dean -- I -- 12 Wells County, and George Parr in Duval County, and Manuel Raymond in Laredo. They were like Chinese warlords, each with his own domain. G: Now then, let's go to 1948. You had assumed some prominence in the Democratic
in Precinct 13 in 1948; Dean's role as county attorney in the 1948 Senate election; the makeup and role of the county Democratic Executive Committee; Coke Stevenson going to Texas State Bank to examine the poll list; the location of the ballot boxes; the grand

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, of course, was a free worker and so were the wives of a lot of his staff members. We enjoyed it. I learned so much. That was where I first found out that America was a melting pot, was to address the poll tax list of the Tenth District. Because you would

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

going to sell off some of the stockpile there and take actions that would try to discourage this and here was a material that was needed in defense and the war effort. Do you recall your work here? 23 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with candidates in order to avoid any exposure to an action for libel or slander. After the war and again when I was not that much of a factor, the desire was to restore ownership to the corporate entity. Now this was pretty well necessary in order to protect

Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, grade 4, or something like that: Community Action, Job Corps, and something else. VISTA, Anyway, I guess I was the first of the persons to fill. F: You got there in October, and you divided your own office into four or five groups. You had Bennetta

Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)

and was defeated two times. H: Do you think the legislation passed under the Johnson Administration had an effect on the redistricting of Houston to the effect that it did provide you an opportunity to run in a single-member district? J: That was the action

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and convey to the United States of America all rights, title, and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews conducted with my late husband Donald J. Cronin, on September 14, 1989; December 4, 1989; December 14, 1989; February
Factors that led to Lister Hill's decision to not run for re-election in 1968; Cronin's reaction to LBJ's 1968 announcement that he would not run for re-election; public opinion regarding Vietnam; Hill's support for the administration's actions

Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was Justice Jackson's assistant, so I was the one to brief them on Rudolph Hess and his actions prior to that for several weeks. The psychiatrists were to watch him and his habits, eccentricities, whatever they were, and make notes of them for not over ten

Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

The newspapermen had gone on strike in Oslo in mid-speech. F: The Norwegian, you mean? Mc: The Norwegian press had been given a position that was very bad. It was against the light and on the wrong side of where the action was, and in LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in this whole folding of the legislative process, that so many instances where the department itself was lukewarm to the legislation despite all the prodding we could give it, the action moved up to the White House. Then in the search later we found a champion

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. It wasn't just the fifty thousand people that were killed; it was the millions that were injured, which meant that every man, woman and child, every person, every voter, every constituent in America had a friend or a relative or knew somebody that had been

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the civilized world, and everybody always ends up being so surprised that the action has happened. But anyway, that's a personal aside. G: Did he realize that this would make it impossible for him to go to Russia now, public opinion? B: Well, I think
LBJ's attempts at negotiation with the USSR and North Vietnam; LBJ's treatment of Hubert Humphrey in the final months of LBJ's administration; Humphrey's personality; LBJ's decision to not attend the Democratic National Convention and support

Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. authorize treatment. This focus could take other actions to Well, it wasn't needed; when Medicare was imple- mented this service was used very little. G: Was there a fear that doctors would not be sufficiently receptive to Medicare itself to make

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

it, Walter Heller and Dave Bell got the President to send a memo or a directive to the Department of Agriculture saying that no actions would be taken with respect to price supports or related matters without first having them run by the council

Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, that's right. M: So this would be October 167 then. P: It was July-- M: ICJ in December 166--is that the right date for it? P: 166. October. The ICJ decision was in July 166. was in October, 166. The General Assembly action The decision

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, was that either the government lacked expertise or the problem really had not been given sufficient attention within the government, and there was an awful lot of expertise that we could call upon to advise on action which should be taken in their area

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