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Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • those candidates who had opposition that year--primarily Senator Mike Monroney. I met him in the studios at the Capitol where this tape was going to take place. And my first exposure to him was when he was chewing out one of his aides for writing
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that the reputation he had of being a Texas wheeler-dealer is something he did not want history to confirm that that reputation ever existed while he was president. And I would imagine that he was personally hurt by things like Bobby Baker and Walter Jenkins. He just
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • within the Defense Department or within the military establishment? Where was the impetus? J: I gather that the initial impetus came from the Defense Department and from McNamara, maybe from some of his aides. But McNamara, as I gathered, presented