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Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

it was not possible back in Washington to give detailed guidance as to how our commanders would handle their battalions and regiments.We pretty well left that up to them. We hoped that they would combine with their search-and-destroy action on the pacification front

Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of increased corporate and personal expenditures, and the net result would be continued inflationary pressures, yes. But of course, I was hoping that a full public debate on the wisdom of the Vietnam War plans would lead to some conclu sion about curtailing

Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Now I tell you, I can't mention anything current because a pall sets on the audience, and it's no longer funny. I'm hoping for an election year when I can get back and get a little more of a barbed tongue there. F: And at least be able to work

Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Kentucky. Obviously, if you take a national program and you skew just a little bit the emphasis of it, since East Kentucky I think only had a population of about eight hundred thousand people, the hope was that you could make an impact. The responses from

Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Actually, Karnack was a place on the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas railroad, and the railroad was envisioning a town there, so he was hoping to be one of the first settlers, and 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

false starts I think now some money is being pumped into it. I don 1 t know for sure, but I have reason to be hopeful that this will be doing something constructive and useful. F: The White House role in this is in a sense one of keeping pressure

Oral history transcript, Frank G. Wisner, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a more intensified pacification effort. For the basic concept, one has to go back and recall, was with the increasing insertion of United States forces in the hope that you could break the NVA [North Vietnamese Army] offensive, relieve the pressure

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 11 (XI), 2/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

been everything that everybody would have hoped for, but given the situation, I think again we made a great contribution really to the ability of the government to defend itself against excessive contract payments in this kind of area. We wanted

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in we knew [P.L. "Roy"] Siemiller was going to be incredibly difficult to deal with, and hoping that this might, in effect, cut off Wayne Morse's labor support, result in his losing the election, and get him the hell out of the Senate so that he wouldn't

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: And then I told somebody that worked for me, Bill Grain [?], to take a look at that, and I don't remember whether we did get it back into business or not. G: Would that have been a useful vehicle for averting this kind of-- C: Well, Ackley's hope would

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

down to visit in early August. Do you remember that and any discussion--? C: No, just that he really schmoozed him to try and--what he was trying to do with Eastland was--there was no hope of Eastland voting for Fortas--was to get Eastland to back off

Oral history transcript, Radcliffe Killam, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a courthouse burned up. K: No, it certainly wouldn't. I hope it's the last, but I doubt if it will be. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

; apparently the feeling was that the pause had not produced the kind of results he'd hoped for. Do you remember that? J: Yes, I do. And it didn't. If I'm wrong--I don't want to be wrong, but my recollection is that there were some negotiations going

Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

fascinating, the coincidence--was that they were going to launch an attack in early 1975. But it was going to be the beginning of a long series, and they hoped to bring it to culmination in 1976, which was our election year. Of course, if they got a target

Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. The events at the White House were of absolutely superb quality. I hope I had some participation in helping to set the 14 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and coming down the line was a three-star general who was making the apologies to Tyler. He was so sorry that General Ridgway couldn't be there. B: I hope Mr. Abell had the presence of mind to make an appropriate comment. A: He just was panicked when he

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

" business, and I think that, yes, there were a lot of discussions. Some of them were flippant, some of them were very serious. But I think that--again, maybe I'm being much too subjective, and I hope I'm not attributing to others what I myself felt and still

Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

were doing this were, with the exception of some of the employees who had been in these divisions for a long period of time, highly trained professional or hoping to be professional people, with masters degrees and doctorates. The range was, as I

Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

but opportunity for improvement is everywhere, such as saving of lives on the highway. We're experiencing fifty-odd thousand casualties each year on the highway. Many people, and I hope they're right, think this is something that can be abated and the trend

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of his life, that it's much better to talk about something you've done than to talk about something you're going to do, hope to do. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

-- I -- 7 certain number of counties, and a county chairman, and of course all hope to have even a precinct organization where they have representatives from each of the precincts. So I took on the responsibility of attempting to organize my

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

to the time we went to Los Angeles. tion was in July, and we went out in June. So it The conven- So it must have been in June. M: He didn't talk about it among the staff members? G: No. He M: We just quietly went on our way, thinking and hoping

Oral history transcript, James W. Gulick, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

service. ObViously, both management and labor desire individual benefits they hope to gain from the American Merchant Marine. The nation, of course, is concerned primarily with a high degree of steady-state service that can be relied upon, whether

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

. H: I think he spent one year in some college. [Kenyon]. F: Was he sort of a doctrinaire anti-U.S. type, or had he arrived at this on Vietnam? H: What was your feeling on this? Well, this is just a personal feeling--I hope I'm wrong. I really

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

Washington and myself went over there and presented bronze plaques and keys to the city especially designed for Mrs. Johnson and himself. I believe they are very handsome plaques, and I hope they'll be in the Library because they were especially designed wi

Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

publicizing did you hope to get out of the conference? R: The president and, I think, Mrs. Johnson had great vision. were also realists. action. They So they were concerned, as we were, about They were very people-minded, action-minded, and they were

Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

was a success? R: Or is a success? I would say that it's on its way--as we are building now down to eighteen months of it almost--it's on its way to proving many of the things that we have hoped, that Senator Kennedy had hoped would happen. done as much as we

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

went--I hope it's still there, but I'm sure it isn't--was a very swanky place. Bohemian Club. It was the Do you know whether they still have that? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, or are they usually just disagreements of minor degrees? S: Sometimes they are major policy differences. M: Those are the kind that the President-- S: Right. We would never, I hope, take an issue to the President where the dif- ferences were of a relatively

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

, that any political considerations would be injected in the process at some other point, probably at his point of review. He told me that he desired to pull together all of the activities relating to appointments into a single office, and that he hoped

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the draft legislation. In the end VISTA, or domestic peace corps, was one section in Title VI of the anti-poverty law. B; Were these men acting on their own in getting you to draw up this title just in the hopes that it could be included or--? P; No. I

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

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

really in bad shape. delivery messenger, and of course the Congressman was trying to get people jobs. Everybody was trying to get people back to work. was quite an experience, which I hope will never occur again. F: \Vhen did Maury Maverick become

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

hoped 'he wouldn't do it, but I would stand up [for him]. said he would let me know. We talked a while. He Of course, he didn't let me know; 'he had Walter Jenkins call me and let me know. T'hat meant IIstand up and let t'hem pour it on you. II

Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

" effect that they could do no wrong. And even Jackie's recent marriage, these rationalizations that have been appearing in magazines. are the darndest things I've ever read, some of them. They I hope history will recognize Mrs. Johnson for all of her

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

tried to be helpful when I could. G: But it was useful for her to understand that with all the requests that were coming in, that she had to have some sort of system to try to be responsive to what the people wanted and yet not to give them false hopes

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, if not weeks, that the U.S. has been evenhanded, or trying to be evenhanded in this, in hope of a resolution before war. 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

-type helicopters that we used. For all these reasons, the Viet Cong had some advantages in being able to detect the possibility at least that we intended to use helicopters in a heliborne raid. We had hoped that that might not be true, but the noise