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Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

hitting Washington cold. I had cabled several times that I thought we were playing a losing game since the fall of President [Ngo Dinh] Diem and all the chaos wh,ich had followed, and that, sooner or later, we were going to have to avail ourselves

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 3 (III), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Jack, we were discussing the last time the campaign of '64 and we shut off on the campaign swing through New England. Now then, as you know, along about that time when the President was up in New York we had the unfortunate episode of Walter Jenkins

Oral history transcript, Gerard C. Smith, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

dependence that Foster Dulles had on Lyndon Johnson's legislative judgment. I can just hear Dulles saying time and again, "Hhat does Lyndon Johnson say?" whenever there was a crisis or same problem. It was quite a refrain: LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Emma Guffy Miller, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the Louisville Nashville Railroad. He had had a business education of some sort, as they had as early as that. at the time. He went home for his mother's funeral in 1860 or '61. And he wrote his father after he got back. and of course he was in politics. just

Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Aimee Semple McPherson? C: Aimee Semple McPherson. She was carrying a program every Sunday night and I think one other time during the week, but anyway she had one, I know, on Sunday night. The minister either followed her or preceeded her

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN November 14, 1968 N: Let's identify you in time and position here. Hhen Hr. Johnson became President, you were serving as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. B: That's correct. N: You had been

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was a member of Congress a time or two and when I was in Washington. He probably won't remember those occasions, but I do. But I have no idea when it was. And I don't remember my very first association with him as a member of Congress. I knew that he

Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in Washington, D.C. The date is March 7, 1969. The time is 10:08 in the morning and my name is David McComb. Let me find out something about your background first, Mr. Hughes. Where were you born and when? H: I was born in Chicago, Illinois, February 26

Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of this time--from 1950 to 1965--you were assigned to the Washington Bureau. and covered both Washington congressional and political moves and then the last seven years of this, as military correspondent for the Cleveland plai:l Dealer. In 1965 you first came

Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 18, 1969 B: This is the interview with David E. Lilienthal. Sir, to begin at the beginning, do you recall when you first met Mr. Johnson? You mention in your journals meeting him at the time he was assigned

Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on two or three months to finish up some work I was doing and then came to the Urban Coalition. I donate my services here on a part-time basis. M: You are, of course, with the Texas nativity. in connection with Mr. Johnson is cronyism. The obvious

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

its year and I was scheduled to make a brief address and give a paper at the conclusion. I did return to Washington and then ensued the various meetings incident to my assignment described by Mr. Halberstam. However, during that time I got

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

17,1969 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES SYMINGTON INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Congressman Symington's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Jim, when we talked last time, we got through the election of 1960 and your memories of that, and so I thought

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the President. Lyndon, on the other hand, got in and was very sympathetic with the President and supportive of the President. I've always felt he won the race on the basis. that the Tenth District, at that time, was strong for Roosevelt. Lyndon backed

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that they weren't getting information about government that they thought they should know because so much was about what was actually happening at that particular time. G: Besides the newspapers, did he require or urge you to read other periodicals? VW

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cross -- II -- 2 The trip around the world was in 1967 around Christmas time

Oral history transcript, Richard Spinn, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there and finished the seventh grade. At that time one of my teachers was M. H. Ehlert, who became county superintendent, and he was also a student and perhaps a graduate of San Marcos, then called Teachers College. I enrolled in September of 1922 in Brenham High

Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with the Johnson Administration was as chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. H: That is right, although I had served as a member of the Board before Johnson appointed me to be chairman. M: You held that position from 1965 until what time exactly? H

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

California was made a state it was not contiguous to the East. When other states such as Nevada, Montana, Wyoming became states, their population was much smaller than Hawaii's. But obviously, tne opponents had other deeper reasons. There was a time when

Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is an interview with Milton S. Eisenhower, in his office in Baltimore, Maryland. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Dr. Eisenhower, very briefly, let's run through your career from the time you were

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Theis -- I -- 2 was about to leave he put his arm around my shoulder--we scarcely knew each other--and he said, "Bill, I spent the weekend up in New York with Dick Berlin." Well, Dick Berlin at that time

Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was with the original AAA. B: During that time, back in the thirties and on into the forties, did you have any contact with then Congressman Johnson? G: No, not any direct contact with him as Congressman Johnson, no. B: Did you have any sort of relationship

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Intelligence, not Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. When the agency was established by law under the National Security Act of 1947, the individual who held my job at that time was given the title of Director of Central Intelligence

Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

time, it was a special election, and I left in January. I was elected in '38. The truth of the business is my wife and I that summer of '37 went with General John J. Pershing and the Battle Monuments Commission over to France and Belgium, England

Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on an experimental basis with bureaus overseas, and I was our first full-time foreign correspondent from 1957 to 1960, based in London covering as much as one person could, Western Europe and into Eastern Europe. Thereafter, I've constantly been involved in reporting

Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

dead now. R: Oh, he is? I didn't know that. G: He was around for a long time. R: He came here in 1919. I used to like to have coffee with him and listen to him talk about what it was back in those days. I believe--well, I know it was Speaker Sam

Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of government. My first knowledge of the President came when he was running for the Senate, and at that time I was talking to many people like Dr. Robert Weaver and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, all of whom said that it would be a great thing if Texas could

Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: July. At least, I left at the end of July. Previous to that you had been director of the Bureau of the Budget under the Kennedy administration, and that had been your only government service since the time of the Truman administration. Is that correct

Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

commander of the Fifth Special Forces? L: Yes, that's correct. from Hawaii. When the Tet attack started, I was on my way back I had been on R&R, and by the time I actually got back to Nha Trang, the attack on the city was well in progress, and the local

Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in on November 11, 1966. I came from Rochester, New York, where I had been for some time previous connected with the Xerox Corporation and a practicing lawyer. I was chairman of the Board of Xerox and had been General Counsel and Chairman of the Executive

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

there in 1952 and took command of the 25th Infantry Division. General Van Fleet, one of the best in our army was 8th Army commanding general. I stayed with that elite division and that assignment up until the time I left Korea, which was shortly after

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

of Texas along the Rio Grande River, and there he set up his business and we were actually raised there and went to school. M: What kind of business was he in? G: He had a general grocery store at that time with his brothers, who are still living

Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to start off by asking you, if I figured it right, you worked for the AP [Associated Press] for twenty-one years, is that right? M: Yes, twenty years. G: That's a long time for a wire service. My impression of a wire service kind of a job was, you

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the time, was that we were going to finance the cost of the programs essentially from what we thought of as the fiscal dividend. What did we mean by the "fiscal dividend?" The fiscal dividend was simply the proceeds of taxes as they came in each year under

Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

connection with Lyndon Johnson during the time that I was in the army; we'd appear in a hearing and he'd be a senator in the group that was holding the hearing, but that's all. So when the hearings were over and in 1955 the Senate Armed Services Committee

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: This time the subjects I want to talk about--and for your time benefit I hope we can wind it up--are Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, particularly. Suppose we begin with Latin

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

of the most recent interview about the selection of an architect for the Johnson Library, and that's where we quit. Do you want to pick up the story there? H: Yes. We had the policy at the University at that time of having regular architects who did

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

at that time, that is correct. viaS majority leader at that time? t~y particular area of responsibility was--well at that time I was working pretty LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that coverage by a group of younger reporters, good journalists, but young mavericks, rebels, young Turks, whatever label you want to put on them. David Halberstam of the New York Times, Malcolm Browne of the Associated Press, Neil Sheehan of UPI, Nick Turner

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, taken in order perhaps. Any of the party politics type activities? L: Our responsibility was largely in the area of substantive preparation of the program. From time to time, we engaged in trying to educate people in Congress about the various