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basic friendship with Russell was such that Russell wouldn't turn on him on Fortas. A terrible miscalculation. It's almost like, you can think back to [Joseph] Stalin saying, "The Pope has no troops. So what?" And look at television this weekend and see
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
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Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, but in March of 1953, just before the June 17 uprisings in East Germany, Stalin died, of course. And the commanding general immediately wanted to have the political intelligence officer, who was a rather young and somewhat inexperienced captain at the time
Hagerty’s military and intelligence background; 6/17/53 uprisings in East Germany; Joseph Stalin’s death and replacement by Nikita Khrushchev; the Russian Foreign Area Specialist Training program; estimating Russian intentions and capabilities while

Meredith who is federal judge now, a Symington manager, flew down and talked to me and gave me advice. They knew that in 1956 and in 1960 that Symington and Johnson would be conflicting, first favorite sons and then conflicting. Joseph P. Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the day in 1964--maybe it was 1966 [1967]--when out of nowhere I got a question in the briefing as to whether Stalin's daughter had asked for asylum at the American Embassy in New Delhi. Now, I will admit to you frankly I did not even know that Stalin had
in the Middle East and where the phrase came from; the Liberty incident and whether or not it was accidental; preparing for press briefings; Joseph Stalin's daughter seeking asylum in the U.S.; an attitude of secrecy in the Foreign Service; McCloskey's

place on the world front. One, [Joseph] Stalin died in early March with repercussions and uncertainties that concerned the whole world. And two, [there] began to be discussions about a truce in Korea, about exchange of prisoners. You felt
in the Senate; Ed Weisl; Senator Joseph McCarthy and Charles Bohlen's nomination as ambassador to China; social events; Styles Bridges; Lynda's ninth birthday; Amon Carter's heart attack; LBJ's early struggle being an effective minority leader; LBJ's reaction

, my Grandpa [Joseph] Baines, you know; he had the ingredients. But when Daddy wasn't around and [was] dead and Mama was around, the decisions that led--let me show you one example now. You haven't gone into his war record, or at least you don't

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

himself and this is what he said, I memorized it. It leaked out, just like this thing in the paper this morning. And it wasn't denied, nobody denied that he had said this, same as [Nikita] Khrushchev made his speech criticizing [Joseph] Stalin

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

himself and this is what he said, I memorized it. It leaked out, just like this thing in the paper this morning. And it wasn't denied, nobody denied that he had said this, same as [Nikita] Khrushchev made his speech criticizing [Joseph] Stalin

he laid off [Joseph] McCarthy, who was chairman of the Government [Operations] Investigating Committee, and that brought a lot of unfavorable comment from Drew Pearson as "Lying-down Lyndon." Because Pearson was urging Lyndon to attack McCarthy

-man army. Because that was the only way to get peace, what we all wanted. To sit down and do nothing was to play right into [Joseph] Stalin's hands and he would take just as much as he could get without fighting for it. We began to have real good

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

it was, offered to assist the French, and they kind of folded out from under us and we were left holding the bag there. [Joseph] McCarthy we had about that time, somewhere around Washington, who was creating a great stink about communism being bad regardless

ways of running things that could have taught lessons to Joe Stalin. Pat had the most absolute iron-fisted rule over that commit tee that was ever established within my memory of any senatorial committee. What Pat wanted, went. But of course

to abolish the poll tax, and Maury Maverick was elected the chairlTIan of it. I was elected vice -chairlnan, and this Joseph Gelde rs, who had the radical connections, was elected secretary. We went back to Washington, a.nd the first thing we did was to try

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

it was 1966 [1967]--when out of nowhere I got a question in the briefing as to whether Stalin's daughter had asked for asylum at the American Embassy in New Delhi. Now, I will admit to you frankly I did not even know that Stalin had a daughter. Well, as you

Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- X -- 18 representative, period, and with a letter to Churchill, with a letter to Stalin, and with a letter to [Douglas] MacArthur. me right before he left. Then he called He'd taken some shots and he was sick, and he

Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was in great trouble. Then I went to see him in I went there for President Truman to talk with him about his military needs. He thought at that time that Stalin was going to unleash his satellites and he wanted some additional planes and tanks and other

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XXIII -- 15 Vnutrennikh Del-People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, former Soviet Union under Stalin] does that for the Soviet Union. The NKVD is organized to some extent as a military organization. All

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

who had to work under that old bastard Stalin for many years. God's sake, let's get it out. For This is great." And, by golly, Wisner and Angleton didn't want to do it, and that's why I told the story in the book, that I succeeded only when I talked

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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