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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, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to make up numbers?" G: That's great. C: That's a very funny story [about] where health numbers come from. I watched it happen on the alcoholism fight. I can remember correcting, with [Senator Harold] Hughes there--I'm going to say--but I don't
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the firm. ASCAP of course is the national organization of composers and publishers. Listed also was Hughes Enterprises, one of my initial clients, and Dukor Industries, also one of my initial clients. Dukor Industries paid a terrible price because I
  • connections, including his business relationship with Howard Hughes; a January 1971 memo from Nixon to Haldeman indicating Nixon was eager to "make O'Brien accountable"; O'Brien learning of the burglary at the Watergate Hotel DNC headquarters on June 17, 1972
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, Stanley L. Greigg, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The fact that President Johnson was running so well--he did carry Iowa in 1964--we also had a very popular governor, Harold E. Hughes, who ran very, very strongly. But I felt good because people talk about the coattail effect, and I'm sure there was some
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 2 (II), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • their interests were. We had a senator from Iowa that was a recovered alcoholic. G: Harold Hughes. M: Hughes, yes. G: Did President Johnson ever lobby personally with Senator Javits for health legislation? M: He may have. I don't recall. He sure as hell
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, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: HAROLD W. HOROWITZ INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dean Horowitz ' office, Los Angeles, California Tape G: of 1 Well, let's start with your own involvement in the War on Poverty Task Force, describing at first where you
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  • Horowitz, Harold William, 1923-2000
  • Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Harold W. Horowitz
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and d i d n ' t really want to. I ' v e got a number of memos in that thing of yours from Harold Howe way years later from when we're talking about right now. name? Harold Howe II, i s n ' t that his Johnson set him up as a task force chairman
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, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • into those kinds of matters again and [was going to] devote myself to my profession until Harold Hughes came along, who was Governor of Iowa, and asked me if I would help direct his campaign for re-election in 1964. Governor Hughes is a magnificent man
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Hughes is this? C: Chief Justice. WClS In a great liIan, he coul d fi ght, He saw Mr. Hughes. As the saying was, Burt ~~heeler was all knees and elbows in a fight, and Mr. Justice Hughes was no slouch. So they took the complaint, so to speak
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 24617781] Y: A Catholic. M: Yes. Y: No, it's a three syllable--well, it doesn't matter. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh [William F.] Ryan? At any rate, he through his New York colleague [Hugh L
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: HUGH SIDEY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 M: The purpose is obviously not to make you duplicate things that you have written. I've tried to read not only your books but as many of the columns
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  • Sidey, Hugh.
  • Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Hugh Sidey
Oral history transcript, Norbert A. Schlei, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was assigned to work with me right away, but that may have been Wilbur Cohen who did that later. At any rate, I did have with me Harold Horowitz, who was the deputy general counsel of HEW at that time, and a lady whose name I think was Green, who
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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  • relationship with the press; Hugh Sidey; LBJ’s fondness for neatness and 'experts'; Peter Lisagor; Bill Moyers as press secretary; James Moyers; Merriman Smith; LBJ’s secrecy; LBJ’s first trip to Vietnam and the 1967 around the world trip; LBJ meeting wounded
  • Pachios, Harold
  • Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Harold Pachios
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: HAROLD BAREFOOT SANDERS (Tape #3) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral histories
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  • Sanders, Harold Barefoot, 1925-
  • Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Harold Barefoot Sanders
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Prime Minister [Harold] Holt's funeral and circumnavigated the globe the other way, went to Rome trying to see the Pope. G: Did you go on it? D: Yes, I was on that trip. It was a remarkable trip. Lyndon Johnson presenting the Pope with a bust
Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a person could have gone out as a great hero and said, "This is it." But you know George Schultz didn't believe, as secretary of state, the last man that I know of that left with a high principle resignation was Cyrus Vance, Harold Ickes. (Laughter
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the judiciary committee to get the judicial interpretation that helped us avoid traps that were laid for us. In the Senate I worked closely with Wayne Morse, who was the subcommittee chairman for education. I worked in addition with John Brademas, with Hugh Cary
  • -state issue, segregation, and the poverty impact formula; working with Adam Clayton Powell, Carl Perkins, Phil Landrum, Emanuel Celler, Wayne Morse, John Brademas, Hugh Cary, Edith Green, Joe Clark, Jack Forsyth and Charles Lee; lobbying the Congress
Oral history transcript, John M. Steadman, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it is that they want to do." thing. And probably [Harold] Horowitz was there doing the same sort of But it was so unclear what at least I was supposed to do. mean I wasn't supposed to participate in [it], I didn't think. I I mean I didn't know anything about any
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But our problems were so political. I spent an awful lot of time--again as that article spells out--on the problem of trying to get some money in the bill for parochial schools because [Hugh] Carey was in trouble. Or was it Carey was in trouble
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • education, and-- T: And he had been on Gardner's--? F: Yes, he had been involved with it. He and Mr. [Samuel] Brownell. Hugh Calkins and Mr. [J. W.] Edgar-- T: Who was Mr. Edgar? F: He was state superintendent of Texas. T: Was he a friend of LBJ's
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. But if he really wanted it, we had to act on the assump- tion that he did and had to make a judgment as to whether he was going to get a program the way the process was working. And we were very dubious--this is Sam Hughes and me--about it. I'd had some
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
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  • Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Hugh Gardner Ackley
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the new President sworn in. What we were waiting for, we realized a minute later, was the arrival of Judge [Sarah] Hughes. Smitty--Merriman Smith--ducked into the booth there and got off a quick flash to the UPI and thereby managed to keep the UP ahead
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I was a member of the pool and Prime Minister [Harold] Holt and his wife were there, and the press was invited back in to President's cabin and had breakfast. And it was bacon and eggs or ham and eggs. And Mrs. Holt was sitting just across from
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the administration. Mr. Johnson had me in from time to time when I could do something, or others had me in. On this particular occasion, because I knew some of the people in the British government, I had been sent over to talk with them a little bit before Harold
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the President. Tom Hughes at Agriculture, along with Birkhead, in the day-to-day activities involving agricultural legislation, were obviously hand-in-glove with Orville in every phase of activity. John Stilman I remember as a competent fellow. Al Keefer from
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall or may have read, was Mrs. Sarah Hughes. From what I have [learnedJ in my investigations since that time, as near as I can tell, Mrs. Hughes was concerned on a moral issue rather than on a economic or political issue, particularly with regard
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to talk with me about this. So I said I would and flew on to Washington that night and met Mr. Johnson on that Monday morning, when I arrived at his office and Dr. Hugh Dryden was waiting for me. B: There is some indication that you came on to town early
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in July. This meeting, I guess, was in August. The President called us all over there--the Chiefs, the Secretaries, the Secretary-designate of the Air Force, Harold Brown--and went around the table and asked each one of us our opinion on whether
  • stations (MOL); the Titan III; McNamara's contribution to the Defense Department; critique of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; closing bases; reasons for Zuckert's resignation; Harold O. Brown; the need for nuclear and non-nuclear forces; the all-volunteer army
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of receptions and teas and luncheons and cocktail parties. Mrs. Tom Connally and Mrs. George Mahon and Mrs. [Fritz] Lanham--we went to all the familiar haunts to celebrate these happy events. Secretary [Harold] Ickes died, and we, of course, went to the funeral
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? G: I think it was in 1940. R: It was that early? G: Yes. R: I was around town then. I don't know except I would assume Tommy would be in on it, because he was very close to [Harold] Ickes and he liked Wirtz. Everybody liked Wirtz, except Mr
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a barrel on crude oil. [Harold] Ickes, believe it or not, who was the fuels administrator, was advocating such an increase. F: A rather surprising stand for him. P: That's right. Well he was sincere and earnest in his convictions, I am sure. F