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Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a charter; this was worldwide responsibil ity. M: You were not specializing in Indochina affairs at that time? S: No. As a matter of fact, the day before the assassination we had just come back from Latin America. We'd been down in Latin America. I

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, a Vice President of Time Incorporated and President of Time-Life Broadcast, Inc., served in the Government for 20 years. During his Government service, he served for 13 years with the Voice of America and 7 years overseas with the USIS in India

Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: DANIEL BOONE PORTER INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Colonel Boone's residence, Belton, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: The most important thing in the experience of America in the early sixties was the adviser relationship with the Vietnamese

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in State Department language, and he said very impatiently, "I don't mean all that. I mean what are we doing--what are we actually doing?Send me a list of the actual actions that we're taking under the Alliance for Progress and what actions the Latin

Oral history transcript, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

on important problems, but the studies seemed to be ending up in the files without any perceptible actions resulting from them. For that reason and others, I felt that the organization of the Defense Department wasn't satisfactory and something ought

Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

they are concerned with so that we do try to cover all of Latin America, all of Western Europe, and about five or six countries in Asia. � � � � � � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org M: B: M: B: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

is," and that's when the call went out all over North America, "Find him!" And the FBI officers, for example, in Rapid City, not knowing I was going to be flying to Washington, said: "I would suggest that you and your family LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

in many people's minds as to, first, whether Wilbur Cohen would become a lame duck with essentially a caretaker role until after the election; and secondly, whether his interest would be so deeply in the areas of his past interest, his actions would be so

Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on hotheaded instructions from Washington~ ~- I burned into action by the American press, to get on with it and tell this guy to apologize and eat crow and do things that he couldn't possibly afford to do as president of the country, which also would

Oral history transcript, Livingston Biddle, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1989, by Louann Temple (Item)

-- 12 to move under the twenty-one day rule until September 13, when presumably Frank Thompson will be back in action. I doubt Smith will grant a rule." To what does that refer? B: That refers to this particular evening when the--and Smith did not grant

Oral history transcript, Guy S. Meloy III, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on a village. Now, we killed a lot of VC in villages, but we didn't do any of the things that you hear about or read about; very effective. G: This is a disturbing problem. Time and again, you see after-action reports in which there are so many KIAs [killed
); the connection between political and military actions in Vietnam.

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

as fast as we could. Added a group or two, expanded the groups that existed, and tried to have an element in the Pacific, an element in Central and Latin America, an element in Europe, the Tenth, an element in general reserve at Fort Bragg. I believe we

Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the differences. I guess you are familiar with this English poet who said, "I live in a sea of words where the nouns and the adjectives flow. Where the verbs speak of action which never takes place and the sentences come and go." The division in the commission

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

under house arrest. They could just shove him off to a side and not give him copies of all the telegrams, and he was just as much out of action playing tennis in Saigon as he would have been under house arrest in Dalat. The other four were more active

Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

for two and a half years the organizer and chief of the Far East Division on the so-called action side, that is to say, political-psychologicalparamilitary side, with Indochina as one of my areas of responsibility. We had a very modest program with respect

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

is im?ortant, although it may have only a relatively minor importance. But with all those qualifiers I gave her as much as I coulq. Z :z:ay have, however, referred to the President's action innnetl~~=ely upon coraing prestdent. I don't know if I told

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on the adoption of the agenda. But there was never any subsequent action taken, not because of any lack of initiative in this regard by President Johnson or the Johnson Administration, but rather because the Russians didn't want to have LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

recreational area is to provide optimum recreational opportunities in a natural environment as contrasted with a national park, the objective of which is to preserve a vignette of early America. On the one hand you do this best by getting private, local

Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the repo rts on that. MG: Mrs. Williams, didn't you go into action then? HW: Well, we waited at the ranch to see what was going to happen after that. I think we finally got the word that they had gone hack to Washington 1 so thetl we got a flight out

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

speech in the U.N. which I had a central hand in drafting, but he came out with a big development program there which the Middle East governments didn't pick up. But in 1958 Vice President Nixon had a miserable time on a trip to Latin America. In Caracas

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of America, USIA, during the late 1940s and 1950s. Z: That is essentially correct. Is that correct? Let me summarize it very quickly. I was with the Voice of Arneri ca from 1948 through 1961 , and my final position there was as program manager, which

Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

antipersonnel weapons against harmless villagers. R: Where was that dropped, in the North or in the South? G: In the North. R: As I said, if he wanted to believe a North Vietnamese communist over Of course, this was later-- Americans, only in America

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

out to be just poppycock, not even good rumors, and the other half would have some substantiation and some foundation in fact. And where we could substantiate it, why, we would take action against the LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Administration was the Bureau of the Budget an important factor in government organization. It was just impossible to get action. The irony was that the Rockefeller Committee,* which was headed by Nelson Rockefeller, with Arthur Flemming, now President

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, if not an intimate, at least a friend and of increasing intimacy, with some of the young people in the New Deal, some of those who kept the lights burning all night in those offices while they rolled up their sleeves to remake America, so to speak. It was a time

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

-price developments--it was one of my concerns. The steel story really starts not in the spring of 1962, but back in the summer of 1961. There was a letter sent by President Kennedy to the heads of the, I think) twelve major steel companies in America

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

action on a cabinet department probably since the first Congress set up initial departments in 1787. M: Last time you gave some hint as to why this occurred, that being the people in the executive branch going up and to testify for it, people like

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

shillelagh and take my proper place in the hard, cnlel world of action! That, I have done five ~imes since I've been at the University of Texas -- for periods varying from six months to six years. PAUl. BOlTON: Whi.'.t He are int·crested in of conrse

Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

don't know him intimately enough to have a close first-hand knowledge of Johnson, the man, as an individual. r~ost of my opinions are based on seeing him in action publicly or being in a group where he is the principal figure and that kind of thing

Oral history transcript, C.E. "Curley" Doyle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

such an interest to me, and it didn't become apparent in any of his actions that I know of. G: Well, there's an indication that he may have participated in efforts to secure legislative appropriations for the college and that he worked with President [Cecil

Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of articles that he apparently had scanned or had been brought to his attention and he was raising questions one right after the other. The scope of his scanning, if you will, was most impressive to someone who hadn't seen him in action. I think the other

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

all." And he [changed]. for anyone. two minutes later, of course, But I mean I don't think he had very much good to say But, on the other hand, his actions belied this, I mean held keep on trusting people. M: Could you tell that he made a~y

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of that third term issue, the conventions, and Lyndon Johnson's role there? P: No, I didn't attend conventions in 1940, and I guess I wasn't taking too big a hand in things. No. I don't have any particular recollec- tion of Lyndon's actions there. He

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to stay only for a short period of time, was that I figured I was not going to be able to complete a Ph.D. anyway before the war engulfed the United States. All of us thought it was coming. Mr. Roosevelt was taking so many actions to aid the British

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

be extremely exciting because I would be where the action was, that my skills would deteriorate unless I was involved in medical action. Whereas I thought so much of him and Bird as friends, I felt that my role as a physician would diminish and, except

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to be solved, so he dropped everything and addressed himself to it. I don't think you should write any significance into his [actions], at least I wouldn't, other than that that would come from any politician adopting a position that has to be taken, ought
LBJ’s speech class and debate team at Central High School in Houston; LBJ being action-oriented; LBJ’s work with, and loyalty to, Richard Kleberg; Roy Miller; Senator Alvin Wirtz; Little Congress; LBJ’s short time in law school; Maury Maverick

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that he bought a few hats and things for different ones, for what reason, I don't know. G: Senator Wirtz would? J: Yes. G: He was a good 1awyer, I suppose? J: He was an excellent lawyer. G: Did you ever see him in action in the courtroom? LBJ

Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pike P: ~~ I ~~ 26 Self-immolation is an ancient gesture in the Buddhist religion as a protest against actions by the state seen as against religion. Buddhists did

Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, you might say, my course of action--which incidentally I think was quite close to the course recommended by the Joint Chiefs, except possibly for stopping the bombing altogether-whether we would have been any farther advanced today, no one can say. I

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

These forces also were useful in civil action programs which we are currently conducting in South America. P: How much did the Tet Offensive set uS back in our progress, and why could we not prevent it? R: The Tet Offensive, I think, set us back

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