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Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • how and whether it can be done. But basically of course they do have constituencies that are represented by public spirited organizations; they have foreign policy association, United Nation associations. And then they have some that go further, like
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was not really secret. There was no real national security reason to keep it secret, but I didn't release it. Why? I didn't throw it out on the open market. Because I'd save it as tidbits to give from time to time to people just to improve my relation
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -- I -- 2 Vietnam involvement, which, of course, was 1975. So this has been my experience in Vietnam. I frankly don't know of anybody that put in as much time as I did. I know a lot of people who made much more of a contribution than I did, but I think
  • 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, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and required pre-audit up at the national level before a province chief could do anything. You couldn't go out and buy a load of charcoal without getting bids from three people, sending it to Saigon, and getting it approved before you made the award. G
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • interesting experience because, as I men- tioned in the earlier interview, one of Mr. Johnson's closest and long time associates was Irving Goldberg, who now serves as a judge on the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Goldberg agreed to become vice chairman of the Texas
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • voting before all the people were there. Because I had told them I was coming--I think Skelton told them --I guess they knew 1 was coming, because when I walked in it was like sitting at an Irish wake. Everybody was sitting there like statues
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that he was Lyndon Johnson of Texas, people didn't know how this was going to translate into the politics of a national administration. His intelligence, his ability to grasp things and so forth was never questioned. M: Did you ever fear that he would
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . He'd made a good governor, most people in And it ,,,as a political race, and feelings were aroused. Naturally I was working as hard for my man as I could. B: What made Hr. Johnson seem liberal? M: I suppose association in the minds of many people
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • before, and I was going to be assigned to Algiers . When the people in the Department learned that I was going to be married, they decided � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • serving in this position since 1961. Is that correct? "\1: Since July 1961. M: You were an appointee, then, of President Kennedy and served through the entire Johnson Administration. W: Yes. ~II: For many years you were associated IVi th various
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Johnson to the people assembled there . And that was one of the first meetings that we had to start him toward the success of being on the national ticket . Not that I did it, but I just happened to be around when Gene Autry came because, through Mr
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • political people, he concluded that what he ought to do was go on statewide television hookup in late July of '63, immediately prior to leaving to go to the National Governors' Conference and state his views. strongly opposed to it and so stated then. I I
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, 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 8 Association. I was living in Dallas but the award was presented at the National
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that would have to be made the way these judgments have always been made in our national history, in some sense a reflection of the attitudes and visceral feelings of the President, the Congress, the people. But, within the educational sector
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and then associate professor in economics. I came 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
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • happened to come to Washington. I'd been associated with a nonprofit manage- ment consulting firm in Chicago for about a year and planned to go back. In the meantime, "the head of the company became assistant director of the Budget Bureau, which
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Taylor, I know you've had a very long and close association with the Johnson family, and I would like to just begin this interview with asking you: first, when did you come in contact >vith the Johnson family, and what were the circumstances
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to start, I suppose, although somewhere along the line it might be useful to point out, and maybe at the beginning is the place to do it, that like a lot of people in Texas my age, I think, I grew up with the legend of Lyndon Johnson. I can remember very
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • outside of Texas or on a national level of any kind. M: Did you happen to go to the convention in 1960? P: I went to the convention in 1960. I was not an official delegate, I was there working in Mr. Johnson's behalf. I primarily worked with some
  • Washington-newcomer Purcell to many people; Bobby Kennedy; the JFK assassination; Luci Johnson babysitting for the Purcells; the hard-working staff of the White House; the JFK to LBJ transition; Meat Inspection Act; LBJ communication problems with mass media
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had 3500 people, knew everybody else, so of course I knew him. F: Now you would have been in junior high probably, or the equivalent? N: We just had grarrnnar and high school. F: Was he in another school from you? N: Yes, He taught
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • police specialists in that area also. B: Excuse me--what exactly does this mean? What kind of resources did you have to put in? c: Well, take the community relations area. Nationally there are less than a hundred professional people
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • going to say SOIne things." And he did. He said, "You sons-of-bitches have got to find out that the world doesn't belong to all one group of' people, that this is the black Inan's world as well as the white Inan's world. " B: WhoIn was he talking
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • me to New York to work at the United Nations and all those kinds of things. But that is how I got to know John Connally, whom Senator Connally wanted to run his re-election campaign. John Connally refused him. There was really very little doubt
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Dallas, working in inter-faith causes--National Conference of Christians and Jews, and other activities. So Irving did not tell me that he had received a call, but he told Walter Jenkins to tell the senator that he could rely on anything that I'd said