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Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

]? T: Well, we decided to upgrade the MAAG to MACV [Military Assistance Command, Vietnam] and to put a four-star general there. The question, "Who?" I nominated Harkins because I knew him well. I'd known him in Europe when he was [George] Patton's

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-star general's, and professors from the Harvard School of Business--management techniques were just as important. And we found that mismanagement in the Defense Department was just as important a contributor to our technological gap as money

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--did you have any evidence to believe that he thought that maybe his star lay with another group within the party, namely the Kennedys? W: I think there's no question about that, that Moyers was very interested in Moyers and he realized

Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in movies, become stars. But in general, I think, you let yourself go a lot more when you play a character quite different from yourself. G: Well, what was Mrs. Johnson like as a student there at St. Mary's? S: She was like she's always been really, I

Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in it to the extent of coming to you personally--? L: Well, it wasn't exactly that way. He was very offended with the Soviets because they postponed the showing of ''Hello, Dolly". Mary Martin was the star and the postponement had the effect of cancelling

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and then find that the President didn't like it. fine committee. I'm a co-chairman with-- P: You are currently serving on this? L: Yes. I am But this happens to be a very co-chairman with George Meany and General Omar Bradley; he's a five- star general

Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Russell had a great collection of editorial cartoons~ and the next day Gib Crockett in the Washington Star had an editorial cartoon that the caption on it was "Doing the Cong." It had at the front of the line the President, and it had lined up behind

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

Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: --young veterans in uniform, with enough battle stars to reach from hell to breakfast. When the opposition saw that, they just folded. My recollection is that KVET got their construction permit without· a hearing, and KTBC then had good, tough

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

treated the District of Columbia like an orphan child. I mean, you know, he appointed Russ Young, correspondent of the Evening Star as a commissioner. almost the wayan imperial Byzantine potentate would appoint the court jester to some job to show his

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

at Princeton. I went to Princeton for two-and-a-half years, left for World War II, was in the war for three years in the 76th Infantry (ETO). I returned to Princeton-M: I might add you won a Bronze Star. W: Yes. I returned to Princeton, applied

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was just really the kind that they wanted in that school. So he qualified. He earned it. He wasn’t in there on a just strictly friendship basis. G: Right. Who was the first star? Was it--? R: Roosevelt Leaks. G: Roosevelt Leaks? R: Roosevelt Leaks

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

staff, as Vice President. getting star~ed I told him I ~ould not; that, of course, J was just· . · on my teaching career and I didn't feel that there was any point or purpose in going in what I would consider to be ·a backward direction. I wanted

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he leans way over toward you, and if he wasn't smiling you'd almost think he was Dracula." For whatever generation that may examine these words, perhaps it should be explained that Robert Taylor was then a reigning film star. To continue our

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Johnson -- IV -- 6 stories about each one, and I'm sure often exaggerated stories that he'd throw in about a few movie stars here and there, you know, and where they lived and some tales of their love affairs. (Laughter) Then we went down in the dreadful

Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

gone into the press thing and could have gone on the press side of it, you know, got with Stars and Stripes or done something else, but I didn't want to do that. I figured if you're in the war, you might have volunteered because you felt pretty angry

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)

and Ben Heineman rewarded everybody with a silver cigarette box and a gavel, anyway, he sent me a telegram and he said, "One of the memories that shall remain with me about the conference is Fleming saying, 'It's one thing to be prudent and it's another

Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of it, and I went back, and in about two weeks I got a telegram wanting me to come to work immediately, me and my wife. I thought well, I had to give my present employer two weeks notice, because it might be I'd have to come back. Anyway, so I did, and after

Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the telegrams that I was cognizant of that this was not the case and that I was going to straighten this out. Now I'm going to tell you this story. I'm probably going to have to classify this for a while. M: You may classify it at any level you want to. F

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in the beginning. They didn't know what to say to them or who to put through and who not to put through. The telegrams were coming in and so forth. M: And so it would have been the day after the assassination that you did go out to The Elms? G: Yes

Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in East Texas. East Texas was tremendously anti- Roosevelt, I don't know why. But that hurt. I think the biggest thing they did to help was to see that he had some campaign money. G: I understand that they would also provide him with telegrams

Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

/oh 24 out of line. He authorized Joe Martin to say that he'd be available as a candidate for the Presidency against Truman. And that infuriated Truman so that he sent him a telegram in the middle of the night, "You are fired." MacArthur

Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

award some- where and would I send a letter or telegram of congratulations. And it was almost as if they were a little afraid to ask me. course, I did so. Of I meant it in a very positive way, and I know they were very grateful about it. But I think

Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

We had nobody in the delegation wanted to be for. It was obviously a political maneuver. G: The objective, I suppose, was to defeat Kefauver, wasn't it? W: Yes. But I remember I got some telegrams from Longview saying LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

but I don't recall the specifics of it, and I'm not at all sure that I had any great involvement in it. G: Robert Lowell sent a telegram declining to come out of protest to Vietnam, and-- O: Yes. Well-- G: Do you think these initiatives reflected

Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

telegram ; I put his name first and mine second and sent the wire . LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] M: Still he was considerate to offer? B: Oh, yes

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

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

be, and there were people at the USIA who were trying to make the Voice's output narrower than it should be. Loomis got caught up in that and resigned, having told some of this to the press—specifically to Mary McGrory of the Washington Star. So when I went in, I

Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

these sessions in closed hearings. Chamber proceedings. thing as his show. The public can't get in. He bullies. They're Star He really runs this He changes the record. h1$ question so that your answers look funny. He'll change He, one year, accused me

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)