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Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

set aside who wrote Mr. Truman's speeches for the campaign. I think at that time I met Mr. Johnson briefly when he was here for some trip. Really I first got to know him in 1951 when I came here to work with the Democratic Congressional Campaign

Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in May of 1967. What was the nature of your assignment? S: I had been in tactical reconnaissance for a long time, and I was going over to be a tactical reconnaissance pilot in an RF-4C. G: I see, an RF-4. Is this the same airplane they fly

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: NASH CASTRO INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Castro's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 F: Nash, the previous time we met we got up to the point where you had agreed on a site for Resurrection City. Now then, one thing we have

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. This has become home to you. S: Oh, completely, completely. 19l7~ He liked it very much. Quite a long time. Anyway, the portrait was very small, and they liked -it. _ The President said, "Well, sometime would you do another one for the White House

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

Commander in Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, NATO Allied Commander in the Atlantic, and the USS Enterprise Atlantic Commander. From 1964 to 1965 [you were] Commander-in- Chief of the Pacific Fleet. Another area and time period that does concern us ali ttl e

Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Johnson. W\~: I first met Mr. Johnson when he was Vice President. This was in 1961 in June of that year when he came to West Point to make the graduation address at West Point, at which time he was, of course~ I Vice President of the United States

Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

assignment as chief of staff, MACV [Military Assistance Command, Vietnam]? K: Yes, I knew Westy. The first time I really got to know him pretty well [was] when he came to the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. At that point in time, I

Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was his record for voting and particularly his stand on the racial issue. It was thought that he was very conservative, and we just were afraid of him. I think that's the reason why that during the time of the campaign when he was running for nomination

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to a congressman and Maverick was a political figure in San Antonio. W: Well, Maury Maverick, as you know and everyone knows, was a socalled liberal at the time and he would have been now if he was living. He wa~just born that way. There's a real fine book

Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

remember, I've had it. And the time then seemed to be a good one in which to enter the political field, as I was just resuming my practice. It might have been more difficult a few years later when the practice was better established--or better re

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

~ and then when he would still call. It was~ "This Also when a man voted He satd to me one time, just \n visiting, that you want to find out exactly why, and then start doing your groundwork for the next time. But I think this was so true. I've heard men who

Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

is January 18; the time is 9:50 in the morning; and I am interviewing him in his office at the Health, Education, and Welfare Building in Washington, D.C. My name is David McComb. First of all, Dr. Lee, I'd like to know something about your background

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

." Underneath that, in smaller letters, there is a paragraph which states: "John Macy recruited more talent of proven ability into government service than any other man of our time. In demanding only the best and in seeking it out, he set a standard

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

, 1981 INTERVIEWEE : DON OBERDORFER INTERVIEWER : Ted Gittinger PLACE : Mr . Oberdorfer's residence, Washington, D .C . Tape 1 of 1 G: Can we begin by getting you to give us background 0: as a journalist before the time of your Vietnam

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with pneumonia, and I went back that summer so I would be eligible for track team the next year. That was in 1927 and 1928, and I went part-time. I worked a little in between, as we used to have to in going to college when it wasn't a shame to not get

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, 1984 INTERVIEWEE: SPURGEON H. NEEL, JR. INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Neel's office, San Antonio, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: --the use of chemical agents which created, I'm sure you know, a great furor at one time. CS or tear gas and CN

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of people who could not manage to get their children into the more expensive schools either sent them there to board, or in some cases moved there themselves for the period of time that the children would go to school. I remember little about it, except

Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the Public Health Service and assigned in Washington, I was available when Sarg [Sargent] Shriver talked with Surgeon General [Luther L.] Terry at that time and requested that he send a man over to assist the Peace Corps in the planning of a medical program

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: FRANK MANKIEWICZ INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Last time you referred to a briefing that you had had. I think it was your first contact with Senator Kennedy. M: Yes, that was at the end of, I guess

Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

something about it. Well~ I knew a little about it. I wished I had known more, but I did tell her about General Mannerheim and why he at the time sided with the German troops when they got involved in that horrible battle. Then we were just talking when

Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, I can't do justice to you at this moment, because I spent so much time with Lyndon Johnson and did so much business with him, supporting him on some occasions, opposing what he was doing on others, that it's impossible for .me to think of everything

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

government. In this picture, we were always walking a difficult line of wanting to assist the cities in their relief and rehabilitation, but at the same time not wishing to have the occasion of a riot made the reason for a city to get preferential treatment

Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

with NYA beginning in the summer of 1935 when it was first created. I did not have intimate contacts of any kind with him at that time, but I did meet him once or twice only during that period. As I recall, he was twenty-six years of age when he was made

Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in that appointment. But he had a great admira- tion and expressed to me many times a great admiration for President Kennedy and what he was trying to do, and he also had a great feeling for the United States Army, in particular; for the armed services generally

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, let me ask you to talk in more detail about the equal time initiative, the effort to have the party receive more television time. O: Let me preface that by again stating at the time I again assumed the role of chairman, not only was the Democratic
to get television time; O'Brien's televised speech regarding Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia and reaction to the speech among Democrats; Spiro Agnew's attacks on O'Brien; Frank Stanton and CBS agreeing to give the DNC four thirty-minute loyal

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

years. F: I was going to ask you, did that more or less set up a confrontation between you and the southern delegation? H: Yes. It was, in all honesty, a political albatross, particularly at that time, because the southerners dominated the Congress

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

is in his office in the District The date is March 5, 1969, and the time is 11:40 in My name is David McComb. First of all, Mr. Fletcher, I'd like to know about the circumstances of your appointment as deputy mayor. F: that was probably the most exciting

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Time and Life reporters, generally speaking they were at absolute loggerheads with their publications. And in the other circumstances where a reporter's view and reported view of the world coincided with his publication's, I think it was coincidental
; exaggerated body counts; Henry Cabot Lodge; Maxwell Taylor; the relationship between American and South Vietnamese commitment to fighting ; altering of his articles by Time editors; Charlie Beckwith; his early impression of LBJ; the Maddox incident; the Navy’s

Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Saunders -- I -- 2 G: Did you know Professor Goetzmann at that time? S: Bill Goetzmann? G: Yes. S: We came in in the same year. We were, in effect

Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Reserve during my time in medical school, the majority of which, of course, was during World War II . I was in the Navy for two years, during which time I was stationed at the Naval Medical Research Institute at Bethesda, where I did bacteriological

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 3 (III), 3/9/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

appeared to be a drive which was being prepared and mounted by the North Vietnamese and NLF forces. So I think the really critical time came in the early 1965 period. M: Before that late 1964 period when you mentioned things really fell apart

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

] Krim, and Mary Lasker. Most of those women are well-known, but Florence Mahoney did not ring a bell with me. Can you identify her? C: Mrs. Florence Mahoney, who is presently at this time living in Washington, is a friend of Mrs. Lasker. She has been

Oral history transcript, Ruth Booker, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

there that my father died in the TB sanatorium. C: Where were you staying while--? B: I was with my mother. This was in 1929. Mrs. Martin was most generous. It was very, very hard times but what little she and Mr. Martin had, they shared with my mother

Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Johnson in those days? No, I was not acquainted with him. I did see his name. I remember an incident that happened about that time where the House administrative assistants or secretaries, as I think they were called then, used to organize a Little

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

involvement in the Peace Corps development and indicate how you got into Sargent Shriver's orbit to begin with. W: Well. at the time President Kennedy was elected in November of 1960 I was working in the International Division of the Budget Bureau as what

Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

you first meet Lyndon Johnson and what were the circumstances? F: I first met him when coming to Washington to meet with the President for the first time with regard to his nomination of me as the director of Defense Research and Engineering. We met

Oral history transcript, Sidney Dillon Ripley II, interview 1 (I), undated, by T.H. Baker (Item)

letters from time to time about things which occurred to me which might appeal to him in connection with his interest in American history, as well as in his memories of having served as a Regent. B: What sort of thing would that be, sir? LBJ

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to the most serious. On the other hand, he was much less organized than McNamara was. Part of that may have been Johnson himself; part of it may have been the presidency, I don't know. But he'd tend to deal with four or five problems at the same time

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. The time is 2:15 in the afternoon. And I am David McComb. I think maybe it's time to say something about Lyndon B. Johnson as a personality, as a chief executive. You mentioned on the last tape some of your early connections with Lyndon Johnson and some

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. M: Right. And let's get the date too, it's February 1, 1971. H: February 1, yes. M: Did you know Lyndon Johnson in any way prior to the time he became Vice president in 1961 from your work with the Civil Rights Commission after '57? H

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