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Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

then to be, a member of the Communist Party? BD: No, he was somewhat a young colleague of my father, a professor. My father was a professor at the university in Hanoi, and myself frequently I came to his house, and he gave me books about Karl Marx and so forth, you

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about were a series of Democrats that didn't exist. You know, they sort of had the idea that there was a Rooseveltian mafia floating around that had taken the gospel of Karl Marx and sold it to the Democratic Party. Johnson had a very effec tive

Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Karl Marx. He finally came to this brilliant conclusion that it's very simple: just have socialism. (Laughing) Didn't have to bother at all; this would solve everything. fired from the University. in those days. So he got That wasn't a popular

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. mistake~pwere This is they And I don't have any problem with that it a:i.d says that it's an anachronism. aki~ to the Marx Brothers annual farewell, but one other final q:.:est:io:i.. not only m~stakes, I like the collegial form, even though

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

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't know whether you've ever read the New York Times articl e, "Marx was not a country boy," or "Marx was a city boy." He had one, S t a l i n and even before him, lenin, and they still are having trouble with agricultural production, because it's

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Poage came to lunch with Mary Rather and Ray Roberts and Idanell [Connally]. After that more people [came] than you can count. Our house was just like a Marx Brothers movie in those days, with the doorbell and the telephone and the maid and everybody

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on earth could she be doing! So I go stealthily to the Vice President's door and open it up, and it's kind of like a French comedy or one of those Marx Brothers comedies that is silly and yet it happens. As I open the door to peek in, the Vice President

Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

really bad episode that set the pattern that became fairly common during the campaign, of very, very heavy drinking. G: He was called that day by Groucho Marx regarding an appearance on Groucho Marx' TV show. Do you recall--? R: I know nothing about

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and wondering what the hell we're doing." They call the CIA CAS. That's the Secret Service's code name for the CIA, CAS. Don't ask me why. So I'm beginning to feel like I'm participating in comic opera or a Marx Brothers' movie. G: Let me get this straight

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

into a bed and a tiny little porch off of it, a little screened porch, which is about three times as big as this couch I'm sitting on, then a wee little kitchen and a comfortable sized bedroom. It looks like a Marx Brothers comedy to remember the number

Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and study communism. Boy, that's the Bible. If the Christians made their people study the Bible, the way the Communists study the doctrines of Marx and Lenin and Mao Tse-tung and so on, all right. G: Did you have any--did you do any medical practice while

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to \'lrite an app1 ication for them. Another was: That was one of the big tough ones. many of the procedures were written by city boys, which is the reason therels a food shortage in Soviet Russia now. Marx lrlaS a city boy. There wa s a New York Times

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)