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Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

here. Harris Wofford and Frank Reeves both talked to me. I think I got a telegram also to come to a one-day meeting of so-called Democratic Negro leaders around the country in Washington. This was after the convention. The purpose of the meeting, I

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

another experience also. I was on the debating team and some question came up as to whether or not Princeton would be a problem for us to visit. One of the eager beavers, who was the coach, sent a telegram saying that I was a Negro and would

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, there was one episode worth telling. remember Buzz Busby. I won't You I thought Buzz was one of the ablest guys I'd ever met--modest unassuming fellow, just a very good mind--and he told it as it was--to LBJ, to anybody else, which I thoroughly admired

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in 1962 and in 1963. B: I ought to break in here and mention this. Have you done an interview like this for the Kennedy library program? S: I have not. B: In that case, if you don't object, I think it's worth continuing on along this line

Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. But the people of Miami, the people of Florida, felt very deeply about the Cuban situation and really welcomed these people . I think really one of the bright stars in the crown of Florida is the fact that we did accept these people . The federal government

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. He said, "Why do that? Just go ahead and take your commission, and then you can come on my staff as my military aide." Which I did. I went to Fort Sill and did my officer's basic and came back to the Vice President's staff as his junior military

Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

wake up early and work on the mail . This morning I spent quite a lot of time drafting a telegram to President Johnson in which I challenged the non-political nature of the trip and told him if he was truly interested in coming to Okla homa for a non

Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of Foreign Intelligence in the Department of the Army in the Pentagon, from about 1957 to about 1961. Then I was transferred to the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland, where I was the Director of Production from 1961 to 1965; and then back

Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that the people were lazy, but not otherwise. M: Let's move to that August beginning of the final days or months of Diem and Mr. Johnson's interest in that. Does that begin with the events surrounding the August·24 telegram that Mr. Hilsman writes so much

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Daniel Garcia, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of times to his place since he's been vice president." And I knew that he knew me so very well. So they sent him a telegram. And he had three networks connected to see that program, "I've Got a Secret." So the Garry Moore program that particular night went

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

Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and sat me next to him and continued all through lunch. On the way back to Washington that night, Sarge and I were flying in that Jet Star, or whatever it was, Shriver said to me--and I assume you want it the way he said it--being the devout Catholic he

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or something. Evidently no one was-- B: W e l l , we had a duty officer every [weekend]. The Clark subcommittee, Senator [Joseph] Clark of Pennsylvania, and--your memorandum refreshed my memory--some real star-studded members of that subcommittee, [Gaylord

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wanted to go up. He hadn't been able to see him play once all year, and he wanted to see him play, and he was kind of the star of the team. The President said, "Fine." He went up to see him that Saturday, and the President ran him down up

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in as McNamara's star with a little--you don't have much independence when you work for any president but at least I had a little going in and that was important. But had all of those things screwed up, had I screwed up Watts, had I screwed up the steel

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, Rising Democratic Star." M: Did you interview him for that article? C: I interviewed him briefly, I didn't have any extensive one for that. However, I did do other stories about him and about Congress. Quite a number of my stories were connected

Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

orders not to talk to just why. days? I don't newsmen~ or I used to get some information from Sam Houston Johnson, his brother, kind of~ you know, just little old things that weren't newsworthy)weren't worth printing, but were interesting to see

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

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 keep up. We assigned an officer to him who saw that he got reports and telegrams regularly. He took a great interest

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

of thing that he and I would talk about. He never asked my advice on policy. Hell, he had four- star generals, and had [Robert] McNamara and later--what's his name?-Clark Clifford came in as secretary of defense. that he asked for advice about policy

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the following." and say, "This is worth it because we accom-, And so constantly everybody wants to pull up the roots to see if the plant is gt~owing. F: Yes. M: It took a lot of my time and effort to explain this over and over again to prevent

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was "What would you do if our funds were twenty-five million dollars, half of what they are? What's really worth saving?" Well, it turned out, unfortunately, that the second question needed to be answered because within a couple of years our budget would

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

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

had riots and destruction of millions of dollars worth of property in other parts of the country, and the killing and maiming of many people, and of course that didn't happen in Birmingham, thank goodness! B: Then later on that spring, in June

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that time? What I suppose you could list them if we had several days, but maybe you can equal Francis Bator's eighteen hours here. K: I won't do that. ~: It's worth your discussing those six weeks as a unit, I think. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and just didn't have the capability that the others had. I understand that General McGarr was one of the great regimental commanders with the Third Division all through World War II, and in my opinion and for what it's worth, I think that his great service

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

holding a sheaf of telegrams while Harvin Watson held another sheaf and the President read through his own sheaf. And I can even remember thinking that that in itself was always something of a small miracle, that you can have this quantity of telegrams

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

facts. I called in a couple of reporters to give them the background for the column. There was one fellow that was late and so I gave him a special briefing on it. Anyway, there was a story that appeared in the [Washington] Star the next day

Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

recommended on Thursday, April 2, that the President send a telegram to the acting president of Brazil, a man called [Ranieri] Mazzilli, M-A-Z-Z-I-L-L-I, who had been speaker of the Chamber of Deputies and was the next in line because there was no vice

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

November 1962, to Major General William D. Yarbrough, who was the commanding general of the U.S. Army Special Warfare Center. He was the commandant, and also the commandant of the U.S.A. Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg. And I write: "Dear Bill

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XXIII -- 13 G: Task Fort Smith--or, no, later, after the Inchon-- R: Yes. The initial thing was brilliant, his initial landing, but the follow-up was not. Our troops proceeded up the valleys, leaving the North

Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

(Secretary of War) went over to Europe and while he was gone. his successor didn't know about it and Tom Connally and Myron Jones a man named Johns on and I got in. Fort Lewis out in Washington. And I was as signed to I was commander of a battalion out

Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

generals, one a brigadier and one a four-star general [Al Haig--Mrs. Gail W. Ginsburgh]. G: That is interesting, because in the Johnson White House, things could go the other direction. RG: Absolutely. 12 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

rising star of undetermined brilliance on the scene and that was Estes Kefauver. He was also using a Senate investigating committee as a vehicle, and a very good one. He was investigating crime. A very engaging character with a lovely wife, Nancy. We went

Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a clean slate. I mean by that there was a little chart, you'd picked up your clothes and you'd done your chores and you'd gotten your lessons and all that kind of good stuff, and we very seldom got a star for all of it. We were punished, we were brought up

Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)