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Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to start in the period of 1953 because 1953 was the period during which Mr. Diem prepared of his coming back to the country. I was at that time special assistant to Dr. [Phan Huy] Quat, who was minister of defense in the government of Prince Buu Loc
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • -- I -- 18 a tiger, took it off the walls and carried it to New York by air the next day, giving many of my friends an account of the exhibition's success. I was proud. I might also tell you of my experience with Crown Prince Hiro of Japan. I never
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of his courage, of his tenacity, of his leadership. G: Who was in on the meeting, do you recall? C: Well, there were about eight or ten senators and four or five staff. Others who were there included [Jacob] Javits and I believe [Philip] Hart, and I
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --although I understand why a president can't keep his promises, I always say that promises of princes are presumptive--I just simply made up my mind that I wanted to live life the way I wanted to live it and not the way he wanted to live it. For that reason
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of drums. To go up to that cathedral to the beat of drums, to see people like de Gaulle and Haile Selassie and Prince Philip walking along the street and into the church, to look around and see these world leaders in every direction you looked, right
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ] the kind of questions he ra.ised it was perfectly clear to me that this man Itlas not the Philip Geyelin model. the guy who can't understand anything that happens outside of the three-mile limit. This comes back again then to the earlier point. I don't
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , substantially the same thing that--who was this fellow from the Washington pUblisherJ--his version was correct. ~ [Philip Graham, John Kennedy came to see Lyndon and asked him to run and all this talk, well, anyway-B: That fellow at the Washington Post, Mr
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • before any publicly known discussions got under way. The Berlin crisis of 1948 was resolved by private contacts between Ambassador [Philip C.] Jessup and Ambassador [Hakov A.] Malik in New York, and the matter was pretty well settled before the fact
Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEWEE: A. PHILIP RANDOLPH
  • Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979
Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 2 (II), 1/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: PHILIP R. LEE (Tape #2) INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. Mc COMB More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with Philip Lee
  • Lee, Philip R. (Philip Randolph), 1924-
  • Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 2 (II), 1/28/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Philip Lee
Oral history transcript, Berl Bernhard, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ," whether it was Roy Wilkins or [A. Philip] Randolph, or someone that he liked, mostly Roy Wilkins, I think, finally said the time had come to do something to implement the speech. And I don't even remember when he put the arm on me. Bill Moyers, or Harry
Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWER : DAVID G . McCOMB INTERVIEWEE : PHILIP BROWNSTEIN More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with Philip N. Brownstein
  • Brownstein, Philip N. (Philip Nathan), 1917-1999
  • Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb
  • Philip N. Brownstein
Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • i ! LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: DR. PHILIP R. LEE (Tape 1F1) INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. Mc COMB More on LBJ Library oral
  • See all online interviews with Philip Lee
  • Lee, Philip R. (Philip Randolph), 1924-
  • Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Philip Lee
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . M: I can't place that either, but the ~, I remember, got very involved in that. W: The Post is very strongly for this and Philip L. Graham, then president of the Washington Post Company, went up to see Mr. Johnson, who was then the majority
  • Biographical information; LBJ-press relationship; the campaign contributions issue; Philip Graham; Rayburn convinces LBJ to run in 1960; LBJ persuades FDR to put the REA into the Pedernales valley; JFK and leaks; Steve Early and James Hagerty; W
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • your wedding. II They were living· at the Kennedy-Warren. [A D. C. apartment house] So they asked us to make up a list of whom we wanted. Philip had been here a year and a half, and the list got so big that the wedding had to be moved from
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 27 He gave my son, Philip, Bobby Kennedy was a great sailor. who was with Newsweek, a beautiful scoop as to his decision to run for the Senate from New York. B
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 10/30/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was prepared to see a floor fight, and he decided to go. As I understand it, it was to Robert Kennedy that the labor leaders spoke. I was also conscious of the fact that Mr. Graham had spoken to President Kennedy-F: Philip Graham? K: Philip Graham
Oral history transcript, Radcliffe Killam, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Okay. Phil, is that right? K: Yes, there were four brothers, all of them was ofmore-than-average ability. Charles, the oldest, was probably the least well-known, and then Philip, who was probably the best known and who was the leader of the family
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was walk out of here with your eyes open and you're going to run into somebody who had a problem. The one property that comes to mind that I thought was the most interesting, Philip Morris was a particularly big contributor to the Kennedy crowd. And Philip
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • committee of our group, [it was] damn hard to get him to come, he was so mad with LBJ about Vietnam. I think he finally put in a token appearance simply because Bayard Rustin and [A. Philip] Randolph wanted him there. G: Did they negotiate directly with him
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in the summer of 1964. Blacks wanted to reject whites; they were angry; they wanted to do things for themselves. If you know anything about this conference, you know that A. Philip Randolph proposed a freedom budget of a hundred billion dollars. That was bigger
  • Jack Valenti becoming President of the Motion Picture Association instead of Abram; MPA issues that concerned LBJ; integrationist vs. separationist civil rights movements; Berl Bernhard; A. Philip Randolph; problems at the White House Civil Rights
Oral history transcript, W. True Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a number at that point--in with the U.S. offshoot of the Dutch Philips Lamps Company of Holland. r.~e~ical activity in t~e Then I became president of their PharmaceuticalUnited States. But I had always followed President Truman's advice of taking a very
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • determining precisely what I would do afterwards, I had a call from Philip Young, who had been appointed by President Eisenhower as Chairman of the Civil Service Commission in March of 1953. And he asked me to come over and talk with him. In the course
Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Early acquaintance with LBJ; how LBJ related to the press as a senator; Alsop's interactions with LBJ; Alsop's support of LBJ in 1964 against Goldwater; Alsop's and Philip Graham's role in JFK's selection of LBJ as the vice-presidential nominee
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • months of April and May, she got to wear that suit just the same. Then that was a year of vital statistics. A lot of getting marrieds and some dyings, too. Dorothy Jackson, Lyndon's secretary, married Philip Nichols in our little apartment. At least
  • to Washington, D.C.; Dorothy Jackson's marriage to Philip Nichols; anticipation of a world war; Charles Marsh telling the Johnsons about the dangers of Adolf Hitler; Welly Hopkins' work for United Mine Workers; the 1940 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)
  • such consultation. Now going on from there, [A.] Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin were very much focused on their freedom budget approach and were pursuing that with some energy. At that time Randolph was still functional and active, though of some years
  • groups; Martin Luther King Jr.'s lack of involvement in the conference; A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin's alternate "freedom" budget; involvement of major civil rights organizations and leaders in the conference; recommendations that came out
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • interesting. [Philip] Habib, I think, had been picked mainly by Rusk, and I guess Vance had known Habib, but I'm not sure of that. lot of experience in Vietnam. But Phil had a He had been political officer in Saigon, and had dealt with the problem
  • Selection of the team to go to Paris to negotiate with North Vietnam; Averell Harriman; Cyrus Vance; Philip Habib; organizing the trip to Paris; failure to make serious progress in Paris; debates regarding “the shape of the table”; portraying news
Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . I think the staff had a somewhat different idea. MOst of the staff had originally had the idea that Philip Randolph would be the chairman, and that I would be the executive director. But either the President didn't get that message, or he decided
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Early acquaintance with LBJ; how LBJ related to the press as a senator; Alsop's interactions with LBJ; Alsop's support of LBJ in 1964 against Goldwater; Alsop's and Philip Graham's role in JFK's selection of LBJ as the vice-presidential nominee
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frank G. Wisner, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a decisive impact on that situation that certainly he would have liked, and when sent there I think others would have supported him. G: Who was political officer at that time? Was Phil Habib--? W: Yes, he was. In late 1965-spring of 1966, Philip Habib
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , those allegedly insiders' books, like that one and Philip Geyelin's on the world situation [Lyndon B. Johnson and the World], and so on? Is that written from somebody's staff viewpoint, or is that just investigative reporting over a long, long time? C
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was called--I would have to check my records to get the exact date of it--prior to the election of '64. The meeting was called by Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, and present at that meeting were Mr. Wilkins, Whitney Young, Martin Luther King, A. Philip Randolph
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: MRS. KATHARINE (PHILIP) GRAHAM publisher of Washington ~ INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ
  • First acquaintance with the Johnsons; Clean Elections Bill; Philip Graham’s background; Joe Rauh; Graham’s support of LBJ in 1960 election; selection of home for Johnson family; 1958 dinner at Alsop’s with JFK; Washington Post editorial policy
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Civil Rights Bill of 1957; meeting LBJ while LBJ worked with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; organizing the 1963 March on Washington; Rustin’s relationship with Mr. A. Philip Randolph; how Rustin’s contact with LBJ grew following
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by way of any private decision of what he would do in the future . M: And you need to deal with what I think one of the better accounts of the whole affair, the one by Philip Geyelin of the Wall Street Journal /Lyndon B . Johnson and the World , 1966
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The whole thing was so far beyond what I had experienced in sophistication and elegance. The talk was of the stage and people like the [Philip] Barrys--he had written Philadelphia Story--Dorothy Thompson, Clare Booth, Donald Ogden Stewart. I felt very small