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Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of firefighting. G: Whose idea was that, do you know? To set that up? B: Whose idea? Wasn't there something comparable to that in Peace Corps? I think there was. It might be worth looking up. I think that's what [inspired it]. But Bill Haddad was the first guy
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was done that had to be done. On a request like that, can it be granted over the telephone, or do you have to have some telegram, something tangible? S: vJell, you have to submit your request by telegram, of course. in order to save time, L made
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • this. Then later, when they built the little trailer camp outside of town, out by Tan Son Nhut, Admiral [Elmo] Zumwalt moved into the staff quarters. [Creighton] Abrams moved out into the Fort Apache-type arrangement we had with a high wall all around
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and said she was going to give some two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of daffodils for Columbia Island, nearly a million daffodils, also for dogwood trees that would bloom beautifully in April in the springtime. M: Mrs. Francis, in June of 1967
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , concluded that a telegram should be sent. In any event, as this evening continued to unfold, another matter came up. Press and network people were anxious to have a spokesman for the Kennedy side in the ballroom. I was a little intrigued to find
Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Austin; then stopped in Dallas or Fbrt Worth, picked up Walter [J~nkins]. The West plane was carrying an employee of his over to Johns Hopkins for medical attention and took the Senator's party on the way. G: Did you have any contact with Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 3 (III), 7/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • leave him like he is. F: This is subjective, but I think it's worth a guess. When Johnson became President at the end of November '63, shortly after that, the Civil Rights Bill was reported in December out of the House committee. Do you have any idea
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Stars and Stripes. I could hardly, on the strength of a Stars and Stripes article, go to my commanding officer and ask for transportation home. But in about five days the official cable from the Governor caught up with me. F: Your thoughts
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • . He was known on the Hill as one of the top Congressional secretaries. For instance, there was always quite a bit of competition between the Congressmen’s office and say, one of the U.S. Senators to get a telegram out announcing approval of a Texas
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the convention. G: Is that right? O: Yes. So, a telegram went forward to everyone imaginable that could be construed as a candidate, actual or potential. I arranged the time of the meeting to include lunch. I had our people provide sandwiches in my suite
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Quill -- I -- 14 And he kept thinking they were genuine.” But they promised to send me a telegram in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The train got
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with a bayonet, I believe. There al so were a whole series of investigations of military indoctri­ nation centers and how their programs worked, what their facilities were like, and just the processing of these new recruits. They were Fort Jackson, South
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wasn't one and had a full understanding of the great worth of that particular staff member. He would even go so far as to invent complimentary remarks about the employee's work which he attributed to his brother. He was as skilled as LBJ at laying
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of dollars and millions of dollars worth of sophisticated equipment, and we have thousands of civilians servicing the sophisticated equipment. We have Air Force generals, but not in uniform, running around advising them, and so forth. F: CIA. G: And I
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that Westmoreland cancelled out the deployment of an armored reconnaissance regiment which was then at Fort Lewis ready to depart for Vietnam. He said, "I don't need them," you know, "The Viet Cong have screwed themselves up; I don't need them." But that only
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of watching the President's way of approaching a bargaining problem, and we had quite a lot of misunderstanding, I think, between him and the rest of us on this matter because we thought that it wasn't worth haggling, or haggling as much as the President
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 it was worded in a rather inexact and somewhat contingent manner. As we sat there, a telegram ,vas drafted in response to Governor Romney, and it was immediately dispatched--I think at about eleven
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in Europe. So there were a lot of people being trained there. Well, this particular operation got blown, and I didn't have anything to do in the agency, so I got out of the agency, volunteered for the U.S. Army, was inducted at Fort Meade, went up
Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • could borrow this 4 million dollars to pay the Texas Power and Light and these cities could buy all the municipal systems, and so they sent a telegram to us from the train but th~ couldn't pay for the telegram, it had to be one of those telegrams, you
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I did pick up all kinds of secondary reports on it, but nothing that would be worth recording . M: How much involvement did you have in your position at the Pentagon
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in Austin, or that he would be president or anything like that. He wanted to leave something, though, and he talked about acquiring when he could the property on the edge of Johnson City where his ancestors started the cattle business and the old rock fort
  • involvement in a home movie with Mrs. Johnson; the establishment of the LBJ Foundation; LBJ's early plans for a library and park in Johnson City; the circumstances surrounding LBJ's Silver Star medal; LBJ having to choose whether to run for House or Senate
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • worth in Honolulu and some more on the plane. It was a pretty good example frankly of how the Johnson Administration operated M: when it got into a-- It's consistent with some of the points you made last time, the way the decision got made. c: Yes
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • as fast as we could. Added a group or two, expanded the groups that existed, and tried to have an element in the Pacific, an element in Central and Latin America, an element in Europe, the Tenth, an element in general reserve at Fort Bragg. I believe we
  • DePuy's work as Director of Special Warfare under Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans; forming special forces in the army; White Star Team operations; Operation Switchback; DePuy's work as Director of Plans and Programs under
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • up of people who knew what they were doing and knew how to work with each other . And that was just a black cloud hanging over everything in the latter months of 1964 . I guess we sent some of the most strongly worded telegrams--"Tell them to get
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • no anti-MacArthur sentiment in the country worth noticing. Only one man in the entire Senate had enough intestinal fortitude to get up and make speeches in the Senate attacking Mact\rthur. That v;as Bob Kerr. tility in the gallery. Boy, you could just
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on, of course, and saw a number of other countries. We might stop this a minute and let's find out what we have in the files on this. I reported my talks briefly to the President and the Secretary of State. files. Those telegrams will undoubtedly
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was head of the AID mission. He said they had sent back a telegram saying they would advise Zwick to call him when they got to more modern facilities, that the telephone system didn't get them across the street. Every- body thought this was a big joke
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • really had something to say or whether it was going to be a case in which I simply restated what has been said to them repeatedly, but we felt that it was worth taking a chance. I tried here to keep the press from building up my trip out there, and I
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the House and later became his partner in running the Congress. F: Well, you served three presidents in a row in there, regardless of party, and Johnson of course had a star that was rising all the time. When you stayed over and assisted Mr. Truman's
Oral history transcript, George Pazianos, interview 1 (I), 8/30/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pazianos -- I -- 13 chances were pretty good that you could knock it off. But if you couldn't get by Lister Hill then it wasn't worth pursuing with anyone else on the committee. But that's-G: Drug
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was: "You will be named as a star witness to the political trial in Riom, which will bring your past husband into the trial as one of the first people who had lent or given money, bribed, if you want to use the word, the French government
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --on the first of March. And it's interesting, we had a--I guess it's worth spending just a minute. This was the best way to unfold a new program. It's not related just to highway safety, but the whole transportation program. The night before the message goes up
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the campus called Fort USAFOX [Unites States Army Forces, Oxford], and I went down at the end of the year with John Doar to do a study and see whether we could bring them out. So we said, "No more federal troops; that's crazy, we can't get them out." So
Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • cause we knew that they had to learn to generalize beyond the specifics with which they were working there . F: How did it seem to work out? B: The young people had stars in their eyes and were highly motivated, inquis­ itive, bright, anxious to try
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had made occasional trips out to The Elms at various hours of the day and night with telegrams that I thought were essential for him to see relating to the normal conduct of foreign affairs, or things it seemed to me worth showing to him out of normal
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • knowing it--it sort of drifted with the Joint Chiefs and MacArthur's telegrams crossing each other sort of like Hamlet and the gravedigger, you know. Unresponsive answers. So the problem really wasn't a military cabal against the civilians
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Austin under Mr. [Jesse] Kellam." Memphis, you see. I used to be Mr. Kellam's boss in I had eleven states and Kellam was one of them. That's when I gave him a screwing. G: No, I don't believe you did. J: Well, it's worth telling anyhow. I told you
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to put his pencil up, and I Do you think it's not a good story because they're all coming from the other side?" And he wrote it up. Star. (Laughter) He said, "Okay." At that time he was working for the Washington Don Oberdorfer. And he said, well
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . And there was a section of the criminal code under which they could do that. That's how he got to Kirksville. So I went through the [transcripts of the] hearings, and they were in the process of drafting a sworn telegram, in effect, an affidavit telegram, to get