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Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

by one little incident which is entirely personal. During the 1964 campaign--of course he was then president, running against Goldwater--we had a three-stop day. Pittsburgh, then, as I recall, Albuquerque. hometown. It was Boston, Pittsburgh was my I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

people on the staff, Elizabeth Scully, the daughter of the then Mayor of Pittsburgh, an administrative assistant, and Jeanette Heine, H-E-I-N-E, a secretary. We built from there. I was trying to build the organization. Aubrey kept a very close hand
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

are taping this interview in the Deputy Postmaster General's Office, at the Post Office Department, in Washington, D . C . Mr . Belen, you were appointed Deputy Postmaster General by President Johnson and confirmed by Congress in February 1964 . From 1961
); LBJ's problems about pulling his dog's ears (resolved by Life membership in Vanderburgh County Humane Society); reminiscences of Postmasters General (Farley, Summerfield, Day, Gronouski, O'Brien, Watson, Donaldson); analysis of post office operations

Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Phillips -- I -~ 27 figured Sarge Shriver kept her from becoming secretary of HEW in the Kennedy Administration. Abe Ribicoff got the cabinet post and Edith Green wanted it very badly and had made
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and a half, and then was appointed executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock. That was my west- ward migration. Of course from the time I arrived in Little Rock, in late 1947, I was immediately aware of a tall politician on the south
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and Interview IV 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 MARINE CORPS GAZETTE JUNE
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Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the managing director. Suhse~uently I was general counsel to the U.S. Post Office Department. G: Why don't you give us a summary of your rise in government service as you think it might be relevant to the [record]. M: I went to work in the government
for LBJ; comparison of the White House social life of the Kennedys and the Johnsons; Kappel Commission and reorganization of the Post Office; defection of top level appointees regarding Vietnam policy; Larry O’Brien’s opposition to Vietnam policy
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that could be considered for this post because they would either have to be widows, or single women, or women whose husbands would be able to go with them. And not very many women fall into that category. has quite a bit to do with it. So I'm sure

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

even greater use of him in soliciting people for jobs and scouting around the country for abilities. Mc We've been talking about the post office--you instituted what is called the air taxi service which became a very successful development in postal
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the deep depreSSion days), and I had only had that position a short time; about a post office. I I was satisfied and didn't know anything told him that, but he said I'd make a good one and insisted that I accept it, which I did. ?: Have you been
; changes in Post Office in the last 35 years; Equal Opportunity Employment Act; Vietnam War veterans; LBJ Ranch visit; Dr. Frantz's additional notes

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

, 1970 INTERVIEWEE: PALMER HOYT INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Hoyt's office at the Denver Post Building in Denver, Colorado Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Mr. Palmer Hoyt, the editor and publisher of the Denver Post. I might start
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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-)

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that Then switched in he was spring, early summer . the late summer I was hired by the Washington Post . I from the Knight newspapers to the Post and covered Nixon's presidential campaign in 1968 . Then when he won the election, I became one of the two
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

immediately launched an investigation. this cable. He never could find Now this is just a sidelight, except for one circumstance. You'll find in the book which the Washington Post correspondent and the Los Angeles Times correspondent wrote about Marigold
in Hanoi; meeting with Bill Bundy and Dean Rusk to give them his impressions of his Hanoi visit; Bill Bundy; trying to see LBJ to tell him about Hanoi; Art Sylvester; speaking publicly about his book; LBJ’s relationship with the New York Times; the Post
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Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

ranging from six to seven o'clock. could make the very early morning shows here. They used The wire services And even the dailies, the specials, the New York Times or the Washington Post, could make a late edition, you .see. And every other period
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Hannegan, who was also head of the Democratic National Committee. At then- Attorney General Tom Clark's suggestion,Bob Hannegan took me in to administratively run the Post Office, because he had other responsibilities. He had a considerable closeness
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Vietnam policy; post-presidency contacts and work with LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson and LBJ State Park; Hubert Humphrey's 1968 Texas campaign; LBJ's role in politics in post-presidency period
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, I was a candidate for judicial office, having already submitted all of my papers and having filled out the American Bar Association questionnaire. M: For a judicial-- R: For a judicial post, and I was being considered for a judicial post
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on the promotion boards and so forth. Because to assign a class-one officer just like that is very difficult. a long time. It takes You just can't find a position of his rank and his background and capabilities like that. they could find Cairo as a post. So
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

stories out just for mechanical reasons, also censorship--not censorship but post-censorship. Tape 1 of 2, Side 2 They didn't use that story, and I suspect one of the reasons they didn't use it was that Time magazine was beginning to get vibrations from
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

for the Charlotte Observer and in the Washington bureau of the Knight newspapers, K-N-I-G-H-T newspapers . In 1961 I left the Observer and was a magazine writer years with the Saturday Evening Post . for four In 1965, at the time of the start of my Vietnam
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Graham -- I -- 19 I remember after Tet, about a few weeks after, not the New York Times, not the Washington Post, but the Stars and Stripes came out with an issue. I went
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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-)

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in Saigon in 1964 was awful. This in effect was the immediate post-Diem period. If you remember, the Diem government was overthrown in November of 1963; the death came a few days afterwards. 1964. I arrived there in February of The country was still
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

knew that I was a friend of Vice President Humphrey's because the Vice President frankly had really hoped that when I returned from Bulgaria in early-1965, that I could go on to another diplomatic post abroad. He had talked with the President about

Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: And [Creighton] Abrams was being given responsibility to oversee that process? LG: Yes, but it started very slowly. It was one of the decisions that came out of the post-Tet review. G: Were you involved in that post-Tet review or were you up to your ears
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, some historical significance. Its essential importance, in my judg- ment, is that it fundamentally reversed the post-war priorities of the United States and Europe. Until that speech, it was a central tenet of American foreign policy
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for that post, and Kennedy eliminated that prejudice. Johnson, in keeping his commitment in being LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
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Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the Yale Club on the motivations of national public service. M: Was this ever published? F: Yes, it Was published and I think it was reprinted in full in the Washington Post at that time. Therefore, in answer to your question, LBJ Presidential Library
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

been fighting it in the North to begin with. ~ G: Of course, politically that's another story. T: Now don't bring in these details. (Laughter) G: .. Red China is not really a detail, I guess. T: Many times in post-war years in the course
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

bi tis beb/een 1962 and 1964, and you were Commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Pacific. Do I have the basic command periods and posts essentially correct? M: Yes. Mc: Have you ever participated in any other sort of oral history project
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

graduated from Harvard in 1961, and free-lanced for a while--traveled for a year and then free-lanced writing a book about the travels- then went into the Marine Corps for a brief period, came out and rewrote the book, worked for the Washington Post

Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

been director of the I & R [Intelligence and Research] from the beginning of the Kennedy Administration until 1963? H: Right. M: So you served about a year in the Far East post. H: Just a little over. M: Did you know Mr. Johnson at all prior
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. At meetings we recommended to Marshal Sarit--we thought that the thing he could do best--they had some isolated posts along the bank of the Mekong, sort of border posts. assumed greater importance. But now they We suggested that he put together a regiment
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh able to do that with the very limited advance warning we had and so on, was a shock within government and it obviously was a shock to LBJ. You know that front page of the Washington Post that next morning with the pictures of the brand-new
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. 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-)

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Desautels -- I -- 4 went to the Post Office, that would be 1964, 1965. But the first one to come on board was Dave Bunn in the Johnson years. G: Did these people handle both House and Senate matters
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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-)

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