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Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It wasn't until later that I found out that all overseas calls--these were going through Frankfurt, as I recall--were handled by the Italian Post Office and the Italian Post Office was controlled by the Italian communists. All of these calls were going
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Gardner covered the Senate campaign But I'm positive and I believe he covered LBJ, is correct, and possibly Bob Johnson for the Houston Post , I believe those two . remember a specific people don't a UPI reporter being there . I am certain
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the developments in space which it was obvious in the post-Sputnik period would be forthcoming, and that this should be a civilian organization. Therefore it was determined that hearings should be held to take testimony as to what form this organization should have
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • reluctance on the part of our supporters in the Congress to pursue the objectives of the Great Society program. Through this period, also, I had determined to make a major effort in the Post Office Department to reorganize it. That had led to a highly
  • continued advocacy work for postal reform as co-chair of a citizen's committee; legislation enacted under Richard Nixon to give the Post Office Department more independence and the ability to self-finance; lack of political interest in the Post Office
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that was television. And when Larry O'Brien was sworn in as postmaster general--again, they didn't do that thing here in Washington in the East Room or at the Post Office Building. They went down to that little post office in Hye, Texas, which is red, white and green
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But the President was very anxious apparently to see the post covered, so that I arranged to get there just as Lodge almost stepped on the plane to take off. G: Did you have any doubts in your own mind about accepting this post, aside from the one that you've
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Johnson in Kleberg's office? K: No. He came to Texas after I worked at all these menial jobs around in different places in government departments, including the old Post Office Building. morning. And I had one job where I had to go to work real early
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in 1949, post-war. One of my patrons went to Dallas to drive a garbage truck at $2,400 a year. and went to Dallas. He was a farmer So I sponsored a bill at the time I got to the legislature, to raise the minimum salary, House Bill 8, to raise
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Graham -- I -- 19 I remember after Tet, about a few weeks after, not the New York Times, not the Washington Post, but the Stars and Stripes came out with an issue. I went
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the problem. But the guys in MACV were even then, I think,leaning to a very conventional point of view of the war. G: There was a common complaint, I think, heard, that the VC would knock off a local force post and then ambush the relieving force
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in Saigon in 1964 was awful. This in effect was the immediate post-Diem period. If you remember, the Diem government was overthrown in November of 1963; the death came a few days afterwards. 1964. I arrived there in February of The country was still
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • newspapers, had their best on the beat: Murrey Marder, Chal [Chalmers] Roberts of the Washington Post; Ned [E. W.] Kenworthy, Bill Jorden, Max Frankel of the New York Times; Pete Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News; John Cauley of the Kansas City Star; Paul
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee Harold Cooley; the creation of the Department of Transportation and pressure to keep the Maritime Administration separate; the 1966 minimum wage increase; the Demonstration Cities/Model Cities Program; parcel post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • reluctant to set traps, to set ambushes, to have hundreds of listening posts and observation posts and strive to deal with the greatest degree of stealth and the greatest degree of secrecy. Where we had American advisers accompany units that did attempt
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , for a post-colonial developing country. Much better than in the North. And against that background of success and consolidating and economic progress, et cetera, he was able to--there never was a big indigenous communist movement in the South
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , a quivering young reporter from Galveston who most recently was given an administrativeeditorial position on the Houston Post after many years as their Capitol correspondent; Wick Fowler, who was later a war correspondent for the Dallas News; the brilliant
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • knew that I was a friend of Vice President Humphrey's because the Vice President frankly had really hoped that when I returned from Bulgaria in early-1965, that I could go on to another diplomatic post abroad. He had talked with the President about
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • departments would handle it, and whether there would be a new agency as opposed to having HEW--? B: Which period, is this pre-assassination or post-assassination? G: No, post-assassination. B: Post-assassination, the answer is yes to your question. G
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • newspapers, had their best on the beat: Murrey Marder, Chal [Chalmers] Roberts of the Washington Post; Ned [E. W.] Kenworthy, Bill Jorden, Max Frankel of the New York Times; Pete Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News; John Cauley of the Kansas City Star; Paul
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ] Castro, and so on? C: Yes, I did. I talked to them. I didn't hold as many meetings as the Justice Department people did by a long shot, but on critical points I'd talk to them. F: Was your place considered kind of a command post, or was that somewhere
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Then it was shortly after that we started getting the responses of civil turmoil, and I can't remember whether it was that night or the next night where things erupted in Washington. I remember that [Joseph] Califano set up sort of a command post, I believe in his
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • some men in Colorado that were alerted. B: Did you set up in the Justice Department or the White House a kind of watching post that was later used? C: Yes. We set up in the Deputy's office a center that operated twenty-four hours a day for probably
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • planning was beginning, the Anacostia Park project would get underway. She also praised Wolf von Eckhardt's Washington Post editorial on Mission '76 making 1976 the Bicentennial, making the celebration the achievement of all the many plans on our drawing
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • offered a war service appointment in the Bureau of the Budget. This was one of the temporary appointments that the government was making during the war years. The Bureau of the Budget was sort of a command post for the White House in relation
  • Biographical information; how Carey came to work for the Bureau of the Budget; John Steelman; post-war work and staff of Bureau of the Budget; cooperation between government and universities in scientific research; National Science Foundation Act
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • when I was there, and that's right down the big hallway in Old Main Building. Then you came to a side hallway to the right that went by the student exchange, and there was a little office just beyond that--or post exchange, you know
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : And [Creighton] Abrams was being given responsibility to oversee that process? LG: Yes, but it started very slowly. It was one of the decisions that came out of the post-Tet review. G: Were you involved in that post-Tet review or were you up to your ears
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Kenneth Torp, interview 1 (I), 6/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in terms of urging him on a little bit, egging him on; but it \'1as very low-level stuff and certainly not enough to make a case that they were stirring up the waters. F: Is Cyprus a good 1istening post for the r~id-East It creates its own problems
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • could think of, from the day laborers that were involved in maintaining the posts up to professionals in science and engineering, in research and development, and everything in between. So, as there comes at some point in any program
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the Acting Administrator? P: No, my contacts really fell into two categories--one were the contacts in connection with the budget question which we just discussed. The other was the series of contacts with the President in the post-flight activities when
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • back home and it was a small town and everybody had a post office box. Daddy went and checked his post office box before he took my mother and my brother home, and my brother had received orders from the 8th Naval District in New Orleans to report
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)
  • . Johnson is. But the President just always treated us very, very nice. G: How had he changed or what were the post-presidential years like? Did you have a chance to see him much after he returned to Austin? S: Yes. [I] saw him quite often after he
  • ; Ernest Willinger giving LBJ a plane; Shanks' visits to the White House; LBJ in the post-presidential years; LBJ's behavior around women.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , some historical significance. Its essential importance, in my judg- ment, is that it fundamentally reversed the post-war priorities of the United States and Europe. Until that speech, it was a central tenet of American foreign policy
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Irwin Wolkstein, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wolkstein -- I -- 8 W: The old Medicare legislation was in effect coverage of hospital benefits essentially, purely without the major addition of physicians services. That was the kind of form it had taken post-1960. In fact
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the Washington Post editorial, which said in view of the monumental problem, we weren't asking for enough money. And that was also the editorial position of the New York Times and many liberals. Secondly, the feeling that the bill was an instrument a) to help
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Abram V. Goodman, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1996, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • think she was aware of the fact that she had more than anybody else. B: And so it didn't make you all aware? I: Oh, no. No. No. It was just a basic fact, which . . . And then, let's see, we got to the post war years. One reputation the Johnsons always
  • the Johnson Administration; Ingram's son's criticism of LBJ; LBJ's mood in post-presidential years; LBJ's health; Lady Bird Johnson's work after LBJ's death.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • candidate for the post of premier by then. And I had a friend at this time who was very close to the Ngo Dinh Diem group, and my friend was Dr. Tran Van Don, who became later foreign minister in the first government of Mr. Diem. So we stayed in 2 LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Myer Feldman, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . But by and large, I think Myron--the Times was okay. Christ, the best people weren't the Times or the Washington Post, it was the Philadelphia Inquirer, a guy called [David] Zucchino, and the guy for Variety. Variety had a guy in there every day, Kevin Goldman
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there had been the nastiest editorial, maybe it was the morning before that, the nastiest editorial I had ever had written about me. It was written by the Post [Russell Wiggins was editor of the Washington Post]. M: And Wiggins was sitting there. B: Yes
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)