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Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . In my knowledge of the Council, which goes back to 1951 when Paul Nitze was here, there's never been such a requirement . I think the Council would be unworkable if there were such a requirement . The head of the Council has always had direct access
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • is fuzz it up, so in the end it's pretty fuzzy language as to where it is. I think that over time you'll see the secretary strengthening his position vis-à-vis the administrators. Alan Boyd moved fairly quickly to do that, actually. M: Was there any
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the popes and emperors of Rome woul d have set up touncil s for thi s and that and everything if they hadn't been convinced, either from \'Ihat they had heard of past ones or of what they perceived the current situation to be, that it would do more good than
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in charge of the sections or departments. So the first thing I did \vas get acquainted idth the Departr.1ent of Justice and its I operations. F: What were your principal problems vis-à-vis the Justice Department? I T: One, suppose, you'd be checking
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • by the Senate. F: Let's go back and talk a little bit about Mr. Johnson's program vis-a-vis your brother, President John F. Kennedy. As you know, President Kennedy had a program partially underway and things in 4 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would have [been] ideal. We couldn't get him. He had other fish to fry. He didn't want to take it. He didn't see anything in it for him. He saw another monumental civil rights battle. G: Yes. How about [Paul] Douglas? C: Douglas was a wonderful man
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and them under the American flag . That was the crux of the problem . M: So the heat then came from the shipbuilders? B: Shipbuilders and the unions . And the problem was further exacerbated by the fact that the Maritime Union, the SIU, Paul Hall's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , and a fantastic, exotic part of the world. So the days of the Eisenhowers, and our relation, both business-wise, vis-á-vis the Senate Majority Leader, a Democrat, and the leader of the whole country, the President, a Republican, was a good relationship; so was our
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would support him, Johnson, for leader and who would not. Bobby reported back, as I recall, that there were six senators who would not support Johnson for leader. They were Hubert Humphrey, Matthew Neely, Herbert Lehman, Paul Douglas; I'd probably have
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --and majority. Certainly I don't think they should have been bound by a policy that was completely partisan in nature. B: Is it possible that in that antagonism there 1.]ere personalities too--that Mr. Johnson and Paul Butler just didn't get along? D: I'm
  • Biographical information; Senator McFarland; Sam Rayburn; relationship between Truman and Senator Johnson; Paul Butler; 1956, 1960 and 1964 conventions and campaigns; JFK; Jim Rowe; Hubert Humphrey; Abe Ribicoff; RFK; LBJ as Vice President; DNC; 3
Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1981 INTERVIEWEE: PAUL D. HARKINS INTERVIEWER: TED GITTINGER PLACE: General Harkins' residence, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: General Harkins, will you begin by giving us a brief sketch of your military career before your assignment to Vietnam
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  • Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger
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Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I announced in January of that year I believe, so, yes, I was an early announcer. G: I've heard a story about that campaign or read it in Senator [Paul] Douglas' memoirs that showed your independence. M: Yes, that story became quite famous
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in military the way and co;ning back, and we got the Army, the Air , ~arines, O~ t~e very the Seabees, goodness knows what all. ab~=~vi~ted tri? to the settling of the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org - ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • (?) probably did the best job of articulating what has come to be the accepted American position, vis-a-vis Negro citizens. It has certainly accelerated over the last few years and in many ways I supppse gotten somewhat raucous and somewhat thoughtless
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE INTERVIEWER: Ted PLACE: JACOBSON Gittinger Colonel Jacobson's residence, Reston, Virginia Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: You just said that you would like to say some words about your friend, John Paul Vann. J: Yes. I think
  • Jacobson's opinion of John Paul Vann; Vann's work for Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam and his death; Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) relations with the press, including Joseph Alsop, Don Oberdorfer, Peter Braestrup
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to cut down the number and take out certain ones like, oh, the Public Accommodations Bill, and Title VI particularly, dealing with withholding of federal funds. It was their opinion, even after the March on Washington, that this was just impossible
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • that we had in the informati on di vi si on at that 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
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to go back out there. Well, I had mixed emotions about it, but I was excited about the possibilities. see what could be done. I could I had some reservations about the political situation vis-a-vis Diem. G: What was that all about? P: I had a lot
  • the Vietnamese wanted to accomplish; the Buddhist crisis of 1963; programs involving pigs and fertilizer; progress reports and their depiction of events vs. eye witness accounts; coup in Vietnam; Ed Lansdale; Big [Duong Van] Minh; Diem’s assassination; John Paul
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and was very helpful in terms of the congressional liaison with the California delegations. [The President] nominated Irv for FDIC, which was one of the positions that was confirmed. Joe Califano had a very important personal decision to make vis-a-vis Arnold
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and says, "Yes, I am ha vi ng prob 1ems and I ha ve got money prob 1ems. " LBJ goes out and literally passes the hat and sends him some more money and long letters of advice, and in the election that year Mitchell is the only congressman who was re-elected
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • {oyers make this kind of judg,nent himself, or did the President get in on it, too? Vi: I suspect that Moyers caught most of it early, but these were the kind of speeches, as I've come later to see, that had they gotten to the President, they would have
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • be? If it was a Democrat, he wouldn't have the same sort of--even if he was elected and could continue as majority leader, he wouldn't have the same role. Vis-á-vis an aging, somewhat ailing, Eisenhower, and that narrow, narrow margin in the Senate, it was a very powerful
Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a vacation." F: (Laughter) H: That letter is somewhere in the Dallas News files in the Washington Bureau, unless it's been thrown away in the meantime. ~Je:l, to follow up on that, Paul Kilday, congressman from San Antonio, now dead, later became one
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • got to have. wouldn't get otherwise. too. That's good, because you get things you It's no good unless you go the other route, So I had some friends over there, notably Colonel John Paul Vann and some others, and I got them to come in. these places
Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • advantage. [VI: You did say in passing that you thought the general relations between the Kennedy staff and the Johnson staff were never very warm. Was it worse than that? Was the Vice President sort of the butt of all the jokes around the White House
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with him, and he said, "This sounds an awful lot like some of the stuff the Ford Foundation is doing." He'd been with Ford, you know, and I had no notion of it myself, none whatsoever. they were doing. I didn't know what I happened to know Paul Ylvisaker
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • just as well in the other five districts as it did in the first district and Saigon began to take notice. So General [William] Westmoreland had just come over replacing General [Paul] Harkins. General Harkins had actually been down and liked what
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . [The] notion of tax cutting as an antirecessionary device is not one that had seeped down to Texas, as I believe I think it's fair to say. Senator [Paul] Douglas, who was at this time in their lives Johnson's almost daily adversary, was a professional economist
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the speaker's lobby ri ght now, II He hung up. you know, a call from him was incredible. "All I want to see Ca rl Vi nson , That was the first ca 11 made to any member of the staff. of the commi ttee by Carl Vinson under the new reorganization. He had
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • produce the speeches that had been drafted for the trip, and they read through some of them and Kennedy made a few suggestions. Johnson was very formal and sat on the edge of his chair. Red [Paul B., Jr.] Fay has told me about the meeting; he
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before the day is out. G: Well, this seems awfully premature. R: Healy. Paul Healy. I'll think of the vJhat do you want to know about it? Paul Healy wrote it. No, Paul had been very much intrigued by LBJ, so much so that he'd actually made a trip
Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • what you mean. It's hard for me to place that as a matter in time. After Paul Porter joined the firm, I believe that the Johnsons turned to us every now and then for additional advice with respect to their radio and television properties. I say
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • life's work. Then, when I left Mount Holyoke, I wanted to go to Yale to do graduate work under Paul Sears, who was a very, very fine, distinguished conservationist. I discovered that he didn't teach first year graduate students. He taught almost
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • received. Anyhow, at the christening there was all the family and such old-timers as Bess Beeman and her husband, and Sherman and Delle Birdwell, and Paul and Dolly Bolton. Paul was with us at KTBC. (Interruption) Max and Marietta Brooks and Herman Brown
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the very pleasant dimensions of a man's life, that daughters are for fathers. We both felt just a bit spoiled by the luxury of having just daughters. This wasn't a specific thing in talking about the i ndi vi dua 1, but the dimensi on really of blo
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • States military had a somewhat autonomous position vis-a-vis government policy and government authority. This is what changed when Ellsworth Bunker got there later. He made it very clear that there was only one line of command, and so did [Creighton
Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , and he wanted hearings before Thanksgi vi ng started. So Ed Wei sl came down the following morning, and with Cy Vance and a couple of youngsters and I started working with them. I sort of became chief of staff to Ed Weisl in getting things organized