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Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that over a year we looked at the Truman Library and Eisenhower Library and other libraries--tried to-F: Was Wayne Grover often with you on this? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

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

was an army officer, and although I was born in Texas, we lived all over the world. M: Like Eisenhower's birthplace was Texas. H: Yes, that's right. And the President didn't know my grandfather. My grandfather had been chief justice of the Criminal Court

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

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

Walt Rostow was to this, but I have the feeling that he was not one of the--didn't this idea get started in the late Eisenhower period? M: Yes, apparently-- L: Jerry Smith. M: Jerry Smith was very closely connected with it. L: And Bob Schaetzel

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the contact. We had some other people. there. I think Charlie Woodson from Brownwood was Charlie and I were always good Democrats together, [for] almost everything, including during the Eisenhower race. Even though I had served under Eisenhower, we worked

Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

then, and he and Sam [Rayburn] were the government. It's true that Eisenhower got some of the things he wanted by means of the veto, but what he got, he got because Lyndon and Sam let him have it. G: Can you recall, for example, his role in the Big Inch

Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, there was one guy down there named Bob Hill who was the ambassador to Mexico. Now Bob Hill was the ambassador because Lyndon Johnson put him there! F: He was Eisenhower's appointee, wasn't he? C: Yes, but he was a congressional liaison man to the Hill. He

Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

accurate. The President sets the policy. They set them in different degrees. President Johnson is a man--President Truman likewise was a man--who personally followed the pros and the cons and made a lot of the decisions. General Eisenhower, with a different

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

then we've known of a candidate advocating raising taxes, and it was a disaster. G: Nixon wrote in his memoirs that had Wallace not been in the race, he would have won in a landslide comparable to Eisenhower's in 1952. O: I don't know whether he would have

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Muttnik first went up. Then later he was chairman of the committee that hammered out the bill. He was outer space, really. Without him I don't think we would have gone along nearly as fast as we did. You may remember, Eisenhower was very skeptical

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with the Eisenhower commission on National Goals as staff director . M: How much contact, if- any, did you have with Lyndon Johnson either before he was President or while he was vice President? B: My contacts with him arose almost entirely through the very close

Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

would be of interest to you. I came into this position with a somewhat dubious background politically in that I had been active as a Republican. This was back in the days prior to the Eisenhower Ad- ministration. I was indeed on the research staff

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

very fearful of It... I think when a man like Eisenhower comes out .and says that what we've got to worry about is the military industrial axis--he's no hippie. F: No! Do you thi~~ Vietnam may serve some kind of therapeutic value down the line

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

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

governor of South Carolina, Earl Morris, Jr., who was a candidate for governor and who was defeated. I moved to Pickens. My father was the village carrier, then became postmaster during Eisenhower's administration, thanks to Senator LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

when Paul Douglas had been introducing the textile workers, what we later called area redevelopment. the rural version. John 6SDUNPDQ introduced Neither of these got passed during the Eisenhower Administration, but Kennedy had promised to activate

Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on everyone's part that there ought to be some simple solution. That was the basic attitude of the Eisenhower Administration. Their so-called termination policy is that what we ought to do is put them on their own and let them sink or swim. Of course the Indians

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was the problem there? W: Money. (Laughter) G: Money? They didn't have work? W: The contractors didn't have; they were getting out of work. Eisenhower was the man that put that program on. Eisenhower worked under this theory that every city needs

Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, because Patton was a staffer in the war department on MacArthur's staff like Eisenhower was at the time of the bonus marchers business, but then he was off on subsequent assignments and only really sort of caught fire in 1941, 1942, or early in the war

Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Dixie -- I -- 4 Eisenhower. But Lyndon did take credit for lining up a completely solid

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with Eisenhower. I mean, the President would call or he would call him if they had legislation he thought there was something that maybe the President wouldn't sign. There was a very close, not constant, but a very close associa- tion there. MG: Okay, well

Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the more places you could be operating. By and large I thought it had a competent staff. G: Some of them were, I gather, holdovers from the committee that had been formed under Eisenhower. M: Yes, I think that's right. G: The [President's Committee

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

didn't see that in here. Was that in 1965? in the fall of 1965 when he had the gall bladder operation, October of 1965. I remember we had spent the night out at the hospital. big thing. It was a Vou know, Eisenhower had had a heart attack and been

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the Eisenhower Administration, that rule by Executive order was put in. Any oil or products that were brought in by ocean tanker or by tank ship is under the rule; but that that came in by overland transportation were excepted. And they called this overland

Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

solely in the interests of literacy. am the sole source of the need for the amendments. As a Southerner tend to swallow the ends of sentences, and my syntax occasionally came out sounding like an Eisenhower press conference. I I But I have altered

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

columnist who was the Eisenhower ambassador to Switzerland, but who was with the Intelligence with Bill Donovan [OSS] during the war and has the same feeling that fellow [Ernest] Cuneo had. Have you talked to Cuneo? F: No. C: Well, you better talk

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a little background might be interesting . I was naturally very interested in who would succeed Dwight Eisenhower, and I wanted a Democrat to be elected President . F: You had eliminated the Republican Minority Leader . B: I eliminated the Republican

Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

active and to stay firm and strong and do everything to help him carry out his programs because he couldn't do those things alone . You see, I lived through the Eisenhower years too . And, actually, President Kennedy did a great deal of the running

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: You don't think it ever got in the way of getting on with the main business of governing the country? K: No, I never felt that way. F: I'd be interested in one final question, and that is since Harry Truman, with the aberration of Dwight Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)

humanbeing if you can have both joy and suffering, S: so you sure don't ever have boredom. WhenJulie Nixon Eisenhower was here, she said that it was often very lonely in the White House. She felt that her mother was occasionally very lonely as First Lady

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

? C: No, I did not have any such hope. In the 1956 election Eisenhower had polled fiveeighths of the votes and Stevenson three-eighths, almost to a tenth of a per cent. And somewhere along the line, I guess Will Wilson was down here not long before

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

or phone pri or to thi s September 1953 meeting? D: are letter, asking for drought relief. F: That was from you to him? D: From me to him. F: Putting it off on Eisenhower and not-- D: Yes. F: You did this not as a private citizen, but as a state