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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • [Hubert] Humphrey, Senator [John] Kennedy announces his candidacy, and then on the Republican side, Vice President [Richard] Nixon announced his. Still no personal activity on the President's part, and you weren't aware of anything at this early stage
  • ; Pat Nixon; Marvin Watson; visiting Acapulco and Mexican President Miguel Aleman and his family; LBJ's relationship with Senator Richard Russell; Sam Houston Johnson's hospitalization for alcoholism; a Johnson family history of alcoholism and depression
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTEBVIEWEE: RICHARD S. 11CACTUS: 1 PRYOR INTERVIEWER: PAUL BOLTON PLACE: Mr. Pryor's office, Austin, Texas
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  • Pryor, Richard
  • Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton
  • Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in 1921, when I was six years old. We lived at first in Lithuania, then in Germany, then in Latvia, which then was independent--Latvia, in Riga, from 1925 to 1930. In 1930 we came back to Germany, and I graduated from high school in Berlin in 1934
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 defeated Senator Bill Knowland, who was then the Minority Leader in the Senate, the first time, and defeated Richard Nixon, who had defeated
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960 campaign; Cheryl Chessman case; National Advisory Committee; Democratic candidates; 1962 campaign against Richard Nixon; Cuban crisis; Rumford Housing bill; Jess Unruh; Western Governors
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would have too much sense to stick his neck out that way. G: Okay. Let me ask you to talk about the Berlin trip. R: Okay. Oh, I see where Tschursin comes in; that's Diana. Yes, what do you want to know about Berlin? G: Well, you've got-- R
  • LBJ's and Reedy's assessment of Senator John Tower from Texas; Pakistan President Ayub Khan’s personality; LBJ's vice presidential trips to Berlin, to Sweden for Dag Hammarskjold's funeral, and to Paris; LBJ's lack of familiarity with other
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Yarborough never was really part of the southern group. B: No. Well, neither he nor Johnson joined the southern caucus. Johnson and Senator [Richard] Russell of Georgia, of course, worked hand in glove on everything. They were very close to each other
  • ; Texas delegation luncheons; "Rayburn Board of Education;" JFK-LBJ relationship in Senate; 1960 Democratic convention strategies and LBJ's nomination for vice presidency; LBJ's Berlin visit as vice president; visits to LBJ ranch; LBJ's frustrations
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on foreign affairs in 1961, didn't you--the Berlin speech, for example? R: The Berlin speech--that, of course, was approved by the President and the Secretary of State. That was an amusing story. Mac [McGeorge] Bundy and I in that first year split
  • First impressions of LBJ; JFK and LBJ; JFK and the White House staff; LBJ as VP; LBJ on foreign aid; LBJ Berlin speech, 1961; LBJ on foreign policy pre-presidency; LBJ’s first State of the Union message; Vietnam; CIAP; Latin America; White House
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Ed Weisl and Dick Berlin? I think this is right after they first bought the station. I think he was probably trying to get CBS affiliation is what it looks like. R: Well, when you mention Bill Paley, but then Dick Berlin, wasn't he head of-- G
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Mansfield was never away that much. Johnson was like--again, to use a musical analogy--a [Herbert] Von Karajan. He flies into Berlin. He spends three weeks whipping the orchestra into frantic shape. They put on four spectacular nights of Beethoven and Wagner
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . [That] would be one of the first ones. Z: I guess the German crisis was the first thing. M: The Berlin . . . . ? Z: The Berlin crisis was first, in the fall of 1961. Cuba was 1962. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • President had to go. F: Any particular reason why? S· There -was a great crisis, and he wanted to send the Vice President to show the American commitment to West Berlin. F: Was he satisf'ed with the result? S: Well, the whole trip was symbolic
  • Meeting LBJ; the relationship between LBJ and JFK; the 1960 campaign; LBJ’s role as Vice-President; LBJ’s Berlin trip in 1961; tension between LBJ and RFK; the Committee for Equal Employment Opportunities; why JFK went to Texas in November 1963
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD M. SCAMMON (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: STEVE GOODELL More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Scammon, Richard M. (Richard Montgomery), 1915-2001
  • Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • Richard M. Scammon
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Theis -- I -- 2 was about to leave he put his arm around my shoulder--we scarcely knew each other--and he said, "Bill, I spent the weekend up in New York with Dick Berlin." Well, Dick Berlin at that time
  • Biographical information; first contact with LBJ; LBJ's legislative talents; generosity; LBJ's support of Diem; 1961 Vietnam trip; India stop; camel driver incident in Pakistan; LBJ's relationship with Richard Russell; LBJ's relationship
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 3 (III), 12/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • badly for everybody in the hemisphere. P: What were your activities during this period when we committed our forces? N: In the Dominican Republic? P: Yes. N: The day was the day that Mr. [Richard] Helms was appointed director of the CIA
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] O'Brien -- Interview III -- 7 Richard Russell. Let me ask you to describe President Kennedy's relationship with him. I'm talking about during this early period, before the civil rights [legislation]. O: Yes. Well, Russell was a giant
  • of congressional staffers; Vinson's importance in Congress; John McCormack's relationship with senior southern Democrats; the effect of putting a Lockheed plant in Georgia on Vinson's support for JFK; Richard Russell; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's (LBJ) role
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Richard Nixon was in Congress and one Richard Nixon was about to suddenly steal this away LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • advance exploration. But for some reason he just cut himself off from almost everybody that could have given him any decent advice on it. G: [Richard] Russell referred to this tactic as procedure in the Senate. 11 a lynching of orderly 11 R: Right
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • into areas which were covered by our treaty commitments elsewhere. To give one or two examples, in June 1961 Chairman Khrushchev produced a crisis on Berlin in his meeting with President 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • now, a little fellow that wrote about Presidential power, was adviser-M: Richard Neustadt? F: Neustadt. Only one person has ever really criticized President Truman for this. If you really want to be critical of the problem, the Joint Chiefs
  • First meeting with LBJ in March, 1946; Ganson Purcell; James Rowe; Sam Rayburn; W. Averell Harriman; Truman’s anti-inflation program; General Counsel for AEC; Herbert Marks; Kenneth D. McKellar; Dr. Edward U. Condon; General McArthur; Richard
Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the side gunner; William Fletcher was the top gunner; Mario Sanna was the belly gunner; and Richard Wright was the side gunner. the crew. We had ten people on Quickly, there developed a tremendous, fine personal rela- tionship amongst these people
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • members of Congress that year who were closest to Roosevelt were himself in Texas and Jerry Voorhis from California. Well, he was closer to Roosevelt by a long shot than Jerry Voorhis. Jerry Voorhis was beaten by Richard Nixon. He was the proponent of co
Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Senate but not the House. So naturally the Democrats did not have as much authority as the Republicans did. Senator [Leverett] Saltonstall of Massachusetts was chairman. Richard Russell, Dick Russell as everybody called him, was the ranking Democrat
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and a possible future president. F: We're moving ahead. H: Yes. F: But did he ever express himself on Richard Nixon vis-à-vis Johnson? H: You mean as being elected president? F: Yes. H: No, not that I can recall. If he did, it was, "If Dick
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . [Richard] Kleberg and having met just about everybody in the Fourteenth Congressional District, and because of the U.S. Naval Training Station--I think that was approximately the name of it--which he had helped get placed and kept there. In fact, I think he
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • lived at Floresville, Texas. At that time he was secretary to Congressman Richard M. Kleberg. F: You were in his district. C: Yes. So he came to Floresville, the Congressman did, and Mr. Johnson did from time to time. My daddy was quite active
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ? W: Certainly. He made all these trips to Vietnam, Pakistan and Europe and the Berlin Wall. There isn't any doubt about it. I think it lifted him clear out of his strictly state character and made a national figure out of him. It's hard
Oral history transcript, Sam Fore, Oliver Bruck, Dan Quill, & William S. White, group interview 2 (II), 1/20/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • on his way down to Corpus Christi to accept his first big assignment job with Congressman Richard M. Kleberg. Congressman Kleberg asked him to stop by and meet us, and he stayed all night in our home. C: Were you publishing then? F: Yes sir, fifty
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or not . But, for instance, when I'd been up there two or three weeks--we'd been to Berlin and back--finally one day he said � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in which Eisenhower was elected. Then along in about December was when it really began to jell. Lyndon himself hadn't decided at the time and hadn't taken any--he was there to see who was going to be the Democratic leader. He had urged [Richard] Russell
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , but when the executive producer, Richard Ellison, and I started thinking about that, nobody seemed to be interested in the subject. And we had great trouble getting money for our series, because of this lack of interest and because I guess in the eyes
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Biographical information; duties in Manpower & Reserve Affairs; civil works program; overcrowding at Arlington National Cemetery; McNamara; Project 100,000; Adam Yarmolinsky; Steve Ailes; Senator Richard Russell; Mr. Vinson; Operation Transition
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • over to Yalta and gave Joe Stalin Eastern Europe. For the love of God, they couldn't give Joe Stalin Eastern Europe, he already had it. You know, the Russian troops were occu­ pying everything beyond Berlin. propter hoc syndrome. This was the old
Oral history transcript, Willy Brandt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • office at the Social Democrat [sic]. Were you in Berlin when Mr. Johnson came there as vice president? B: Yes, of course. He came the weekend after the Wall was erected. I had sent a letter to President Kennedy Tuesday or Wednesday after that Sunday
  • Vice President Johnson's 1961 visit to Berlin; meeting LBJ in the 1950's in the United States; LBJ's affinity for Germany and German people; Brandt's visits to the U.S. in the mid-1960's; Vietnam police; LBJ's opinions of European relations; Robert
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the Defense field, would have a similar list of decisions we've made which they would want to look at and see whether they wanted to change them or not. Another set of issues had to do with particular points geographically--Berlin, Cuba, Vietnam, and Laos were
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Is that right? J: Something like that, yes. G: What happened next? J: I'm trying to remember when the wall went up in Berlin. G: That would have been about 1962, I guess. J: That was August, I think, August 5 or 6 or something like that of 1962. I
  • How Jorden got into foreign policy government service from journalism; going to Vietnam to assess the situation in 1961 and the resulting white paper; Jorden’s Berlin Viability Plan and trip to Germany; Averell Harriman; working group
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for national security affairs. Then I did meet him, I'm sure, very early during the administration. I don't recollect where that first meeting was. I worked with him on the particular question of his trip to Berlin. That was the first time I had really close
  • LBJ's knowledge of, and experience with, foreign affairs; LBJ's decision-making process; LBJ's vice presidential trip to Berlin; Walt Rostow and Bundy supporting LBJ as vice president; how Bundy was able to meet influential people through LBJ; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to President Kennedy, I had briefed President Kennedy repeatedly before the inauguration, three or four or five days before the inauguration, on our nuclear plans, on the problem of Berlin, not very much on Southeast Asia, but to inform him what was going