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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-05-13 (remove)
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Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • thing to do and get him to do it. I think the press, oh, starting not so long after Mr. McNamara took office, began to try to make something of what they conceived to be not wholly happy relations between McNamara and Congress, or some members
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . It was a fact-finding comrr.ittee really. F: Were you given a free hand in naming your assistants? W: Yes, sir. F: No political pressures then? W: None wha~ver. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to distribute it to the members the next day. By working closely with the Senate staff, and with the President using every chance he had to press for the enactment of that bill, we began to make progress in the Senate. Now, one of our drawbacks, serious
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • accommodations section of it, I think it is called. B: Did he ever explain to you his reasoning for pressing it? S: No, he didn't. I believe that Lyndon Johnson had a sincere conviction that what he was doing was in the best interest of the country