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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Well, I think what Wilson was--you remember, Wilson was the House man. I think what Henry was talking about were guys like [Harold] Cooley, who had a lot of power, and the southern committee chairmen, who were very angry about this and who were feeling
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . They knew he was a man of great force . This is before he became President . Ba : Did he have any knowledge of British leaders before he became President? Was he acquainted with Mr . Douglas-Home or the future Prime Minister, Mr . Wilson? B: Whether he
  • First acquaintance with LBJ; 1960 campaign; Jean Monnet; DeGaulle; Common Market; Wilson; MacMillan; MLF Force; Skybolt; Atlantic Naval Force; Rhodesian independence; Great British trade policy; assistance of Great Britain with VN settlement; Tonkin
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the somewhat small controversy in April 1966 regarding the appointment of several scholars--some 26 I believe it was-to the Humanities Council, of which one of them was Meredith Wilson. K: Yeh, I know that. M: And I believe that some of the music faculties
  • Biographical information; First meeting with LBJ; first impressions of LBJ; establishment of National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities; effects of Vietnam War; not close to LBJ; controversy over Meredith Wilson; no connection with the White
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1990 INTERVIEWEE: HAROLD C. PACHIOS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Pachios' office, Portland, Maine Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: I think we ought to begin with you telling me how you went to work for the Peace Corps. P: I went
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  • Pachios, Harold
  • Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Harold Pachios
Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the navy. Yes. He was well liked and highly regarded. And let's see. [Harold] Talbott was the secretary of the air force under Charlie Wilson, and he got into problems about using the stationery on private business, or something that started out like
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that? Where are you? I remember when Secretary [Charles] Wilson impounded the extra funds. G: When he did what? J: Impounded the extra funds> that triggered a memory. G: Okay. That's an awfully close vote> a one-vote margin. Do you recall how he
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that Mr. Harold Wilson who was the not yet Prime Minister of England but was almost--it was known that he was going to be--had made a speech in Italy in which he said that President Johnson's LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers, we decided that we would make an attempt to negotiate; that we would appoint a delegation from the Commonwealth to get to work with Hanoi. Wilson. This was done on the initiation of Mr. Harold He was Prime Minister then. House
Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Johnson; Secretary [John W.] Gardner; Secretary [Wilbur] J. Cohen; Assistant Secretary Ralph Huitt. I also worked very closely with Commissioner of Education Harold Howe, first directly under him as Assistant Commissioner, but also when I transferred
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • all right with the people that I worked with in the FBI and the government. But this thing kind of blew up apparently. I was not told about it, I'm sure, out of consideration. Sargent Shriver and Wilson McCarthy, who was the legislative liaison
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was always interested in foreign affairs and he felt at home in it. I don't think Johnson ever quite felt at home in it. G: That brings up an interesting point I just read the other day. Someone compared Johnson and [Woodrow] Wilson as two presidents who
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVlffivEE: HAROLD BAREFOOT SANDERS (Tape #2) INTERVlffiVER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral
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  • Sanders, Harold Barefoot, 1925-
  • Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Harold Barefoot Sanders
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Was this with an eye of cost efficiency or--? C: Howard--what's his name--Harold-- G: Harold Howe? C: Harold Howe. No, the idea was that we were putting complicated, sophisticated programs into HEW, that we were giving them work to do that they had never done
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , I believe Frank Keppel was kind of getting ready to phase out, and Harold Howe, Doc Howe, who had been a member of the task force, but hadn't been appointed, I don't believe--do you remember the dates when they came in? F: No, I don't. C: So
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: PETER BRAESTRUP INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Braestrup's office at the Wilson Quarterly, Smithsonian Institution Building, Washington , D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: Let's talk about your background a little bit in Southeast Asia before you
  • issues regarding Vietnam; David Palmer’s Summons of the Trumpet; William Westmoreland’s and General Harold K. Johnson’s frustration over LBJ’s actions in Vietnam and lack of a coherent plan; other Presidents’ dealings with war; how LBJ failed in Vietnam.
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • by Carl Rowan to Vietnam in March of 1965 along with Harold Johnson, who was then chief of staff. One of the things we recommended out there--and I'm proud to say the director of MACV Psyops, Bowen, and Ralph Boyce of AID and I jointly recommended
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is an interview with Mr. Harold Barefoot Sanders Jr. in the West Wing of the White House. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Sanders, very briefly run down the account of your life and how you came to be where you
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  • Sanders, Harold Barefoot, 1925-
  • Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Harold Barefoot Sanders
Oral history transcript, Willy Brandt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • like Harold Wilson and Charles de Gaulle or was he correct in that? B: He didn't use bad words about anyone I can remember--of people outside of the United States. (Laughter) F: Well, you know, he could de-hide people at times--quite considerably
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , socially, because I attended at least three dinners at the White House. One was for Mr. [Harold] Wilson, the prime minister. Another one was with Mr. [William] Tubman, with whom I stayed in liberia a few years ago. And the other was on some other
Oral history transcript, Gerard C. Smith, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • going to make a disarmament agreement with the Soviet Union. You will recall that Harold Stassen was the U.S. representative, and he was pretty gung ho, and it looked for a week or so as if something \'Ias in the wind. Dulles asked me to go up
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the Vice President in Uvalde . As that ceremony was breaking up, classmate of mine named Tom King . I was with a He presently is an attorney in San Antonio, and he was from Stockdale in Wilson County, the county seat of which is Floresville . Tom
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . General Westmoreland, I think, had a meeting with Colonel Jasper Wilson, who was the III Corps senior advisor in Bien Hoa. When he came back from that meeting, he called me and said he thought it would be a good idea to have an integrated and major
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was one of the many we had when he was in bed in the morning--I think it must have been in January--when he was going to declare that the bombing was on again. And he got a long cable from Harold Wilson. He read the cable to me and commented on how Wilson
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • government field for how many decades? A long, long time. He came during the last days of Woodrow Wilson, I believe, and the best of all times were when he would reminisce about the whole broad stretch of his life in Congress. This was the month when our 75th
  • ; LBJ's and Alvin Wirtz's continued interest in the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA); Welly Hopkins' work with United Mine Workers and John L. Lewis; visits to Harold Ickes' home; hosting other Texans; Tom Corcoran playing the accordion
Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the utilities and this and that, but closing the door around us as far as the rest of the world is concerned. In that context Johnson doesn't fit as a Progressive either. This is as nearly a man not earthbound, not nationalistic, as anyone since Woodrow Wilson
  • Ky; Robert Komer; Tex Goldschmidt; Nguyen Van Thieu; RMN; Khrushchev; Max Milliken; William Westmoreland; William Gaud; Henry Kissinger; Phil LaFollette; Mike Monroney; Abe Fortas; Harold Ickes.
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Woodrow Wilson, you know, started the League of Nations, but it So then I called Lyndon. what I asked you to do?" I said, IILyndon, why didn't you do He said, "Goddamn it, I did." "There's nothing on the news." then. It was big He said, "Well, that's
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for the next year, if we wanted to get education people in touch with somebody, Cater was the man. So far as the legislative program was concerned, we dealt with different people. Henry Hall Wilson was the head of the legislative program for a while and worked
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • couldn't be. I No one had ever been since the Civil War except Woodrow Wilson, and he just happened to be born in Virginia, grew up in the South. G: You don't think then that he was preoccupied with publicity? J: He wanted publicity because he felt
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and Harold Talbott for the air force, I believe. He ran into a good deal of flak on Wilson, who was such a big stockholder in General Motors that the ghost of conflict of interest, whether it was called that or not I don't know in those days
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • or '60 I was appointed for a semester to be the Ferris Visiting Professor at Princeton University in a chair in the Woodrow Wilson School. When the announcement was made, Johnson, who was then still majority leader, got up on the floor and called
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • public the full record of your decisions as settled with ITT, as well as ITT's involvement in financing your party's convention next year. Specifically, before the selection of San Diego as host city, did Chairman Bob Wilson of the House Republican
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Don Fraser. The vice chairman of the McGovern commission, which was how it was referred to, was Senator Harold Hughes of Iowa. Obviously, the commission was heavily weighted to the liberal wing of the party. But there was a commitment and it was my
  • ; labor's response to the changes; controversy surrounding the reforms, leadership of the Credentials Committee and the Democratic National Committee (DNC); Harold Hughes and Patricia Harris; Harris' election as Credentials Committee chair; the Credentials
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • having a memo rewritten so it would be contemporaneous with a certain meeting that took place. He expresses concern about Mitchell and Harold Geneen of ITT as both Mitchell and Geneen had testified that they discussed policy only, not the individual ITT
  • and Harold Geneen of ITT, and other memos that would be harmful if leaked; Mitchell's and Kleindienst's denials of knowledge or involvement in ITT; Terry Lenzner's and Sam Dash's demand that Robert Maheu's replacement, Chester Davis, provide them
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • day on the operations side. Colonel Jasper Williams [Wilson]--I guess it was Jasper--Wilson was the principle advisor on Hop Tac because it was a corps operation and he was the corps senior advisor. So I was a fifth wheel there, unwanted representative
  • Montague's involvement in Hop Tac; the intended cooperative nature of Hop Tac; why Hop Tac was unsuccessful; security as the first priority in village pacification; differences of opinion between Colonel Jasper Wilson, General William DePuy
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the new chief of staff, Harold K. Johnson, was appointed. Harold Johnson was a man I had not known before. He came up from the position of DESOPS, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, who is the army's strategic planner, and he came up with a burr under
  • Knowlton's military background; working in the office of Secretary of the General Staff, Harold K. Johnson, in the mid-1960s; Knowlton joining Joe Califano's staff when Califano was special assistant to the secretary and, later, deputy secretary
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a part of our history and becomes vitally concerned, as does his staff in the office of the president. We talked many times about what happened when Wilson became sick, and where for eighteen or nineteen months Mrs. Wilson and Admiral Grayson tried to run
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • agricultural legislation that was being considered by the Congress. B: You were presenting it to Congress? G: No, actually I was still in North Carolina with farm program work, and my congressman was Harold D. Cooley who was Chairman of the House LBJ
  • Biographical information; Congressman Harold D. Cooley and W.R. Poage; LBJ’s interest in cotton legislation; positions in federal service; putting career men in appointee positions; Secretary Freeman; Secretary’s staff meetings; major legislative
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)