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Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • than any other. B: Was that work in the early '60's in any way frustrating--more advisory than action? H: Yes. But again it has prepared me--see, the present commission on which I serve--of course this is a full time responsibility--but I'm trying
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • references to analogies between the traditional European ghettoes and the enforced racial residential segregation in America. But I don't think the term had been used in that capacity generally before, and I know it had not been used in the title of a book
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . P: Mrs. Taylor, during his vice presidency--well, let me back this up--in 1960 during the campaign did you work in that campaign? T: I was with the Democratic Policy Committee then, of which he ,vas chairman. And of course I was with the girls
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the administration, which he, Lodge, as a Republican appointed by a Democratic president, was about to serve loyally and well, and more gung ho than anyone else. It was that sort of reaction, I think. I know Paul Kattenburg personally and have high regard for his
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Company. I t was sad, and it meant more of a burden .was placed on Louis Ma r t i n . I worked a great de9.1 with the vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee mYself, and a couple of others, to play basically IItalent agency," which we had
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ? And then you assess your audience as Are they ticket-holders? Are they Did they have previous knowledge that he was going to attend the function? Quite often, on impromptu actions by the President, the problem is somewhat less than you might envision
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that it was a very unuise decision--one that I didn't think should be made. I \Vas concel'ned abou t '·iho could be, and Hould be the Pres iden t beginning in January '69. I thir,k one of my first thought;: '\vas that there was no Democrat that '-las capable
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the action was in the basement. I got down to the basement, how I got down I'll never know. I was stopped about eighteen times, but finally managed to get into the Parkland Hospital basement where I saw-F: You didn't have much identification beyond just
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • -- 30 M: While we're on this subject. Lyndon Johnson has the reputation of being earthy in language as in action. H: Oh, sure. M: Or as some people would put it, downright crude. is this really true? H: Now is he earthy, In his language, does he
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was then at the [Democratic] National Committee. The two of us worked, always, very closely together. greater than mine, and through him we made others. His contacts were But there was an attempt to encourage the thought of creating new ideas for developing contact
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ROBERTS -- I -- 6 bus, somebody had taken a shot at the President, but we had no reason to believe he had been hit. F: They had just an evasive action in a sense. R: For all we knew
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a general concept in Latin America that the U.S. should not intervene. F: How much notice did you have of our action? B: None. F: You mean that you found out from what you learned in the papers It had already happened when I found out. to a certain
  • Foreign service career assignments: 1936 in the Pacific and later in Latin America; effect of Alliance for Progress in Ecuador; effect of Kennedy assassination on the Alliance; assignment as Ambassador to Venezuela; fishing agreement (12 mile limit
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • =z~ r~o, ~~d a~d Kennedy a~d Johnson, I select them, you understand why I skipped then to suddenly be restricted in their actions and so forth, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://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 11 federal troops in Chicago were extremely restrained in their action and in my
Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • man out of Washington. M: [l~inston G.] Lawson,who was a Secret He led the parade that day. Now, I would assume that you've given testimony about your actions at thi~ parade. C: Yes. M: What, before the Warren Commission? C: Yes, before
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RUFUS PHILLIPS INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Phillips' office, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 G: What were you doing in Laos? P: I was asked to go up there and start something that was called Civic Action. The Lao government
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • are Democrats or Republicans. DM: That is true. When I first came here, old Hatton Sumners was the congressman from Dallas, and that was, well, twenty eight years ago. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /loh/oh Helms -- II -- 9 Vietnamese and staying behind the scenes, had been advising them on political warfare and covert action and things of this kind. So when he went back again, was sent back again and wrote this report in 1961, obviously
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was Justice Jackson's assistant, so I was the one to brief them on Rudolph Hess and his actions prior to that for several weeks. The psychiatrists were to watch him and his habits, eccentricities, whatever they were, and make notes of them for not over ten
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • it, Walter Heller and Dave Bell got the President to send a memo or a directive to the Department of Agriculture saying that no actions would be taken with respect to price supports or related matters without first having them run by the council
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • is," and that's when the call went out all over North America, "Find him!" And the FBI officers, for example, in Rapid City, not knowing I was going to be flying to Washington, said: "I would suggest that you and your family LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • under house arrest. They could just shove him off to a side and not give him copies of all the telegrams, and he was just as much out of action playing tennis in Saigon as he would have been under house arrest in Dalat. The other four were more active
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , they needed somebody to coordinate the action and honcho the thing along so that there would be a result of some kind in a fairly short time. That's the sort of thing that I was doing. However, you run into some very odd things. For example, Mrs. Cabot Lodge
  • people out of Vietnam in 1975 and Jacobson's regrets over U.S. actions toward the Vietnamese; lessons learned from the Vietnam War; Jacobson's view of author Frank Snepp; what Jacobson would have done differently in evacuating people from Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • relationship. M: Do you remember or can you tell me anything more about the seeming disagreement in timing in 1965] G: Well, it was clear that some restrictive action, some restraint, through the instrumentalities of the federal government, was necessary