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Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and then we'll come back to this. Was Cairo a popular post? Was it a desirable posting in the diplomatic corps? B: It was considered an extremely desirable ambassadorial post. It was Class I, of which there were, what? Twelve or fifteen around the world
with the U.S.; Battle's communications with Nasser; Cairo as a desirable ambassadorial post; morale at the Cairo embassy; living in Cairo; spy satellites and photographic reconnaissance; the 1964 downing of John Mecom's plane by the Egyptian air force; Battle's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

think he had a deep sympathy with his inferiority feelings about the South. F: Very briefly, let's run through your husband's career to the time when he came with the Washington Post so we can establish this sort of background. G: He came from a very
First acquaintance with the Johnsons; Clean Elections Bill; Philip Graham’s background; Joe Rauh; Graham’s support of LBJ in 1960 election; selection of home for Johnson family; 1958 dinner at Alsop’s with JFK; Washington Post editorial policy
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh APRIL 23, 1969 To start your recollections--let's get it on here at the beginning. You are Chalmers Roberts and your current title is chief of the national news bureau of the Washington Post, is that correct
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the differential between water and rail freight. But this development of roads was so important. Then the question of putting signs on the roads, this was a brand new thing. It was a brand new thing to put up mileage posts and directional posts. All
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

rates for those top posts about December 1, 1968. President Johnson studied those recommendations. them several times in person and over the phone. He conferred with me about This was discussed with the budget director, Mr. Zwick at that particular
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

for the Charlotte Observer and in the Washington bureau of the Knight newspapers, K-N-I-G-H-T newspapers . In 1961 I left the Observer and was a magazine writer years with the Saturday Evening Post . for four In 1965, at the time of the start of my Vietnam
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. It wasn't until later that I found out that all overseas calls--these were going through Frankfurt, as I recall--were handled by the Italian Post Office and the Italian Post Office was controlled by the Italian communists. All of these calls were going
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Gardner covered the Senate campaign But I'm positive and I believe he covered LBJ, is correct, and possibly Bob Johnson for the Houston Post , I believe those two . remember a specific people don't a UPI reporter being there . I am certain
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the developments in space which it was obvious in the post-Sputnik period would be forthcoming, and that this should be a civilian organization. Therefore it was determined that hearings should be held to take testimony as to what form this organization should have
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

reluctance on the part of our supporters in the Congress to pursue the objectives of the Great Society program. Through this period, also, I had determined to make a major effort in the Post Office Department to reorganize it. That had led to a highly
continued advocacy work for postal reform as co-chair of a citizen's committee; legislation enacted under Richard Nixon to give the Post Office Department more independence and the ability to self-finance; lack of political interest in the Post Office
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, that was television. And when Larry O'Brien was sworn in as postmaster general--again, they didn't do that thing here in Washington in the East Room or at the Post Office Building. They went down to that little post office in Hye, Texas, which is red, white and green
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. But the President was very anxious apparently to see the post covered, so that I arranged to get there just as Lodge almost stepped on the plane to take off. G: Did you have any doubts in your own mind about accepting this post, aside from the one that you've
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in 1949, post-war. One of my patrons went to Dallas to drive a garbage truck at $2,400 a year. and went to Dallas. He was a farmer So I sponsored a bill at the time I got to the legislature, to raise the minimum salary, House Bill 8, to raise
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Graham -- I -- 19 I remember after Tet, about a few weeks after, not the New York Times, not the Washington Post, but the Stars and Stripes came out with an issue. I went
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the problem. But the guys in MACV were even then, I think,leaning to a very conventional point of view of the war. G: There was a common complaint, I think, heard, that the VC would knock off a local force post and then ambush the relieving force
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

in Saigon in 1964 was awful. This in effect was the immediate post-Diem period. If you remember, the Diem government was overthrown in November of 1963; the death came a few days afterwards. 1964. I arrived there in February of The country was still
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

so, even if it ends up critically, based on accurate information than done in a vacuum or on only partial information. Let me suggest, also, that a very sharp distinction be drawn between information and publicity. A post newspaper, an instrument
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

newspapers, had their best on the beat: Murrey Marder, Chal [Chalmers] Roberts of the Washington Post; Ned [E. W.] Kenworthy, Bill Jorden, Max Frankel of the New York Times; Pete Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News; John Cauley of the Kansas City Star; Paul
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee Harold Cooley; the creation of the Department of Transportation and pressure to keep the Maritime Administration separate; the 1966 minimum wage increase; the Demonstration Cities/Model Cities Program; parcel post
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

reluctant to set traps, to set ambushes, to have hundreds of listening posts and observation posts and strive to deal with the greatest degree of stealth and the greatest degree of secrecy. Where we had American advisers accompany units that did attempt
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, for a post-colonial developing country. Much better than in the North. And against that background of success and consolidating and economic progress, et cetera, he was able to--there never was a big indigenous communist movement in the South
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

knew that I was a friend of Vice President Humphrey's because the Vice President frankly had really hoped that when I returned from Bulgaria in early-1965, that I could go on to another diplomatic post abroad. He had talked with the President about

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

departments would handle it, and whether there would be a new agency as opposed to having HEW--? B: Which period, is this pre-assassination or post-assassination? G: No, post-assassination. B: Post-assassination, the answer is yes to your question. G
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

newspapers, had their best on the beat: Murrey Marder, Chal [Chalmers] Roberts of the Washington Post; Ned [E. W.] Kenworthy, Bill Jorden, Max Frankel of the New York Times; Pete Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News; John Cauley of the Kansas City Star; Paul
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

] Castro, and so on? C: Yes, I did. I talked to them. I didn't hold as many meetings as the Justice Department people did by a long shot, but on critical points I'd talk to them. F: Was your place considered kind of a command post, or was that somewhere
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Then it was shortly after that we started getting the responses of civil turmoil, and I can't remember whether it was that night or the next night where things erupted in Washington. I remember that [Joseph] Califano set up sort of a command post, I believe in his
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

some men in Colorado that were alerted. B: Did you set up in the Justice Department or the White House a kind of watching post that was later used? C: Yes. We set up in the Deputy's office a center that operated twenty-four hours a day for probably
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

planning was beginning, the Anacostia Park project would get underway. She also praised Wolf von Eckhardt's Washington Post editorial on Mission '76 making 1976 the Bicentennial, making the celebration the achievement of all the many plans on our drawing
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

offered a war service appointment in the Bureau of the Budget. This was one of the temporary appointments that the government was making during the war years. The Bureau of the Budget was sort of a command post for the White House in relation
Biographical information; how Carey came to work for the Bureau of the Budget; John Steelman; post-war work and staff of Bureau of the Budget; cooperation between government and universities in scientific research; National Science Foundation Act
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: And [Creighton] Abrams was being given responsibility to oversee that process? LG: Yes, but it started very slowly. It was one of the decisions that came out of the post-Tet review. G: Were you involved in that post-Tet review or were you up to your ears
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth Torp, interview 1 (I), 6/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in terms of urging him on a little bit, egging him on; but it \'1as very low-level stuff and certainly not enough to make a case that they were stirring up the waters. F: Is Cyprus a good 1istening post for the r~id-East It creates its own problems
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the Acting Administrator? P: No, my contacts really fell into two categories--one were the contacts in connection with the budget question which we just discussed. The other was the series of contacts with the President in the post-flight activities when
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

back home and it was a small town and everybody had a post office box. Daddy went and checked his post office box before he took my mother and my brother home, and my brother had received orders from the 8th Naval District in New Orleans to report
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)

. Johnson is. But the President just always treated us very, very nice. G: How had he changed or what were the post-presidential years like? Did you have a chance to see him much after he returned to Austin? S: Yes. [I] saw him quite often after he
; Ernest Willinger giving LBJ a plane; Shanks' visits to the White House; LBJ in the post-presidential years; LBJ's behavior around women.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, some historical significance. Its essential importance, in my judg- ment, is that it fundamentally reversed the post-war priorities of the United States and Europe. Until that speech, it was a central tenet of American foreign policy
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Irwin Wolkstein, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wolkstein -- I -- 8 W: The old Medicare legislation was in effect coverage of hospital benefits essentially, purely without the major addition of physicians services. That was the kind of form it had taken post-1960. In fact
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the Washington Post editorial, which said in view of the monumental problem, we weren't asking for enough money. And that was also the editorial position of the New York Times and many liberals. Secondly, the feeling that the bill was an instrument a) to help
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Abram V. Goodman, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1996, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

think she was aware of the fact that she had more than anybody else. B: And so it didn't make you all aware? I: Oh, no. No. No. It was just a basic fact, which . . . And then, let's see, we got to the post war years. One reputation the Johnsons always
the Johnson Administration; Ingram's son's criticism of LBJ; LBJ's mood in post-presidential years; LBJ's health; Lady Bird Johnson's work after LBJ's death.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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