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Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thought he always was working . G: Let's talk some more about the man . Did he like meeting the public, do you think? W: Oh, there certainly were times in there I know that he was delighted . HIs trip to Berlin [for instance] . I think he did

Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CUNEO -- II -- 24 Hitler was compelling one. F: It was being written in Berlin. C: Yes. I won't go into the details of Bob's candidacy, which is a story in itself. The President had to pullout

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to apply for a network--I think we may have tried NBC first. We wound up by making our big push to get CBS. We did get it. G: He went up to New York, I guess, and met with Dick Berlin and maybe Bill Paley. J: Bill Paley, and of course Ed Weisl. Bill

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the President was very firm. The President was very clear on this, just as he was on the maintenance of troops in Europe, just as he was on the Berlin issue. But I think it was tactical from the President's point of view. I think his feeling [was that] to put

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

and let's multilateralize them. With this new necessary force let's also get the political advantage of having some effort at partnership, and so forth. Well, partly as a result of the Cuba crisis, partly as a result of the cooling off of Berlin which came

Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

committee appointed by President Eisenhower, headed by General Lucius Clay, the Berlin war airlift hero--was to set up a government coproration which would be authorized to issue bonds for the construction of the system and have pledged to the corporation

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of America. The Russians in the various Berlin crises have responded the same way. There was thus reason to believe, again reasoning from experience and from analogy, that the North Vietnamese would react in that fashion too. They were smaller. They were

Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Graham -- II -- 9 Berlin by saying something wicked to a Russian lady cop who had a submachine gun across her back. He was kind of a crazy man

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was not. M: Either to Vietnam or to Berlin? S: No, no. M: Your most famous association, of course, is the one that came in December of 1966 in connection with your visit to Hanoi. S: That's right. M: I know that you've written a full book as well

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

the war for a year, and read the Dallas News, which was in those days a rather jingoistic newspaper, which announced with regularity that Texans were bombing Berlin and invading Italy and so on. Anyway, we came down here never supposing that the first

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of view despite the Berlin crisis of '61 and '62; despite the Cuban missile crisis. You'll remember President Kennedy did go ahead and complete the partial Test Ban Treaty. M: You mentioned awhile ago the SALT talks--that got interrupted

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. I remember Jack Kennedy called some reserves in over Berlin, and the Pentagon I think felt, "Gee, if we're going in this deep, we really ought to have some new troops called up and then we III get some more money and we can handl e th i ngs better

Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

through Dick--well, the president of Hearst, such a good friend, I'll think of it in a minute--but he was the one I think that originally introduced Lyndon to Weisl [Dick Berlin] . He saved Hearst ; Hearst was about to go bankrupt . G: During

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

important. What do you think it could be--Berlin?" The phone rang, and the Secretary said, "Mr. Deming, it's the President." So he picked it up and said, "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, sir. it to George Reedy. What? Huh? Yes, sir, we've got it; yes, sir

Oral history transcript, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

years from now with particular emphasis on the forces we would have several years from now. But occasionally, as during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Berlin crises in 1960, '61, and '62, I'd bring these same techniques to bear on the current

Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, the European Command, U.S. Army in Berlin. From 1951 to 1953, you were the reports and statistics officer,the Office of Defense Mobilization. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

want to publicize the fact that one of the reasons they had to have it was recruiting was not doing well; but that is not a particularly good thing. You had to try to use the Berlin Crisis which was on at that time and was one of your main things

Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the United States did not have any strategic reserve at home for contingencies elsewhere. And if the Soviets had wanted to heat things up in Europe, for example, or Berlin or something, we'd have been sort of hurting. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, there was the trip to Berlin, but that was obviously a presidential assignment--was one that I believe George [Reedy] wrote for him on civil rights. He made [it] at Gettysburg on the Fourth of July, just before he became president. F: Yes. W: He just didn't do

Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

. They gave a reception there. Again all the Secret Service men were looking for me: "The President wants to see you." He introduced me to Cardinal Frings and Cardinal Doepfner of Berlin, all the church people there. He introduced me to them. I'll show you

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)

for enrollment at the University and ended up going back to my home state where I went to school at Auburn. API, Alabama Polytechnic Institute; it's now Auburn University. M: Right. C: In 1948, I was recalled to the military service to fly on the Berlin

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the effect of the defense cuts which followed the Berlin buildup. There was a lot of worry about how defense cutback, and the end of the missile and space build ups would create unemployment and so on. This goes back to the late days of the Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

? Are they going to try for Johnson, and where have they taken him? What's going on in Washington? Or has thi s even moved • . ..• are the Russ i ans tryi n9 to take over Berlin? You know. F: Yes. R: The imagination could run wild. And in that car, we heard