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- . I don't remember much else--except for Pittsburgh, Pennsylva- I don't know how much you want to get into, but Pittsburgh was kind of home country to him because he went to a foundry, the Mesta Machine Tool Company of Pittsburgh. It's amazing
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- is an extreme eastern edge of-F: Kind of an off-shoot of Pittsburgh, in a way. B: Yes, it is, yes, just across the border. We got up there--I covered this event--and they had Johnson for president signs all over the walls and a lot of Johnson presidential
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . We didn't go to their houses to eat, and we didn't feed them at our house. F: What did your father do? W: My father was a clerk in the post office department. F: Did you encounter any particular problems in Harvard? W: Not particularly. I had
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- articulate, I liked the way he looked and stood, I liked what he said; in short, I was really taken with him. At that time I was writ- ing a weekly column for The Houston Post, and I recall, as have other writers who have written about me recalled, that I
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- of embarrassment to him and possibly might injure his relations with such important people as John Tabor. He said: "Oh, no, that'll be no problem at all. I've been given a blank check to designate anyone that I consider qualified for these posts." I said
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- was a member, first, of the President's Air Policy Commission, and then served as a special assistant to Secretary Forrestal before the National Defense Act of 1947 provided for a Deputy Secretary of Defense. I occupied that post as Secretary Forrestal's
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- the problem. But the guys in MACV were even then, I think,leaning to a very conventional point of view of the war. G: There was a common complaint, I think, heard, that the VC would knock off a local force post and then ambush the relieving force
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . You didn't start out to be a career diplomat . I took the Foreign Service examinations in May of 1936, and I started my first post at Vancouver at the end of December of '36 . F: Did you have any background in Latin America, or did you just sort
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- before the coup; an offer to move Diem out of the country to safety; visiting the Presidential palace the day after the coup; flying with the Nhu children to Rome; JFK assassination; post-Diem conditions in Saigon; Georges Perruche; an explosion
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- was doing this. was not in the room and quite properly not. I He wanted to have it a meeting among equals or peers, but I was going in and out of the office, and I was sitting at a little desk right outside his office doing my command post function
- Van Kim; Ton That Dinh; Mai Huu Xuan; David Nes and Mike Dunn; management of the American Embassy in Vietnam; Lodge leaving his post as Ambassador and his political involvement; Flott duties under Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson; Max Taylor; comparing
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- got along fine. B: Do you believe that his choice of personnel was good in cabinet posts and sub-cabinet positions? S: I can't fault him with anybody that I know. his administration were good. competent~ So far as I I think the people that he had
- ; LBJ’s reputation in the South; LBJ’s strengths and weaknesses; LBJ’s post-presidential activities.
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- to full strength when you left to take the new post? M: Yes. As we brought it up to full strength, then President Johnson proposed an increase in the department of a thousand new positions approximately. Congress approved that so we have brought it up
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , who is a tax man, and have kept my interest in taxation throughout my professional career. I remained in the Treasury until mid-1953. As I said, the highest post I had was as Assistant Director of the Office of Tax Analysis. I then went
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- bean on vacation too. F: Since we had to make the trip we decided to look at Mt. Rushmore and some of those things. And we were right by the post office where the car stopped at a signal, and a man stuck his head in the window of my car and said
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- and then had stayed on in California as the state industrial commissimler. So Mr. Henning had been named to the post. Unfortunately, he and Secretary Wirtz found it quite impossible to develop a good working relationship. The Secretary made his views known
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
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- downtown at a hotel, which was sort of a command post, and the only time I remember being involved was the night before the race when were down at headquarters . remember Jack there - exactly, I don't . but I remember a lot of commotion � � LBJ
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
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- considered for any post in the civil rights field? You had the background through your parents. A: I did. I actually had been approached by Sarge Shriver and turned it down--the Peace Corps. But that certainly wasn't civil rights. 11m sure live had
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
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- of view of getting the minority story told as well as important.power centers togo to minorities, I stressed the media a good deal--the New York Times, the New York Post--in those New York hearings, the various networks in both the New York hearings
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy? H: I was on North Capitol Street just at the main Post Office Building. F: What did you do--hear it by radio or word of mouth? H: Well, I stopped for a traffic signal and someone drove up to my side
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . D: It was days before-- F: ~fuere this? did you set up your office; where was your listening post for all of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
- for only VHF channel in Austin; JFK assassination; ICC Commissioner; change in LBJ after his heart attack; post-Presidential visit to Ranch; LBJ as a very sentimental man
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- : You practiced in Chicago? W: Yes. I first became an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago and served there for four years, and then became a Special Assistant Attorney General to prosecute a large mail robbery case in which a post office
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- the convention to an end without a riot and a split in the party. So I guess that's how it happened. behind the door. I'm not sure what went on But anyhow, I think Rayburn engineered it. G: Did you know Phil Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post? M
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- on the Hill? A: No, we did very little of that. We testified, you know, fairly .1 frequently for the Joint Economic Committee, and occasionally before Ways and Means on major tax legislation. I testified a few times on post-war reconversion--we were
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Skelton; LBJ’s acceptance of VP; covered VP while in Austin; move of press from Austin to San Antonio; Eastern press; post-Presidential press conference; John Connally’s dissatisfaction for some of LBJ’s policy; off the record meetings; Sam Kinch, Jr
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , the welcome back, what was happening out there; getting the Cabinet plane out over Japan back; alerting the bases, the posts overseas. So that really not; I can't say that I could focus on that [Johnson and the Kennedy programs]. As you move along
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- the Washington Post? H: No. I have no inside information about what's going on there. I know only what I've read in the daily press, daily newspapers. Obviously, I'm keenly aware of the boat people, because after all, one gets constant letters from
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- from the last administration would know who these people were. We'd put their picture and name at all the guard posts and make a little book. I'd go around to all these offices and go in and just take snapshots and put their name under it. F: You
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- paper, in the Post. F: They had this folk opera out there. P: Yes. And two of the most prominent people in connection with it were born in Texarkana. F: I was going to say this Scott Joplin came out of there. P: He was born there. And this black
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- believe it was. Connally, who was then governor, was doing his damnedest to get out of Byers--I'm not certain it was Byers but I think I'm right. The Houston Post? F: I think Byers was with the Chronicle then. I'm not sure. W: Anyway, it was one
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- projects, something like this? N: Yes. Well, there was of course the classic case of Margery Michelmore who dropped the post card in Nigeria which created pandemonium. I was in charge of the decompression of Margery when she got back to the United
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- it was a Saturday morning that the Washington Post had reported that Jackie's French chef had been let go. The reaction seemed to be, "Here's this guy that eats steak and mashed potatoes, and what does he know about good food?" That offended him greatly, and I
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- , and then of course has grown in stature from originally being elected to the minority leadership post to the United States Senate to the majority leader post of the United States Senate. Each of these steps allowed him to learn more. Each ofthese steps allowed him
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- , being one of the most astute and powerful men in the Senate. Other senators were talked about, as well as different groupings. Senat e vlhip. ]V[y At that time Senator Johnson was serving as the Of course, he did go on to '
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)