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Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • I came to Washington, the United States had no European policy, but it had allies, and after I got through with it, we had a European policy, but no more any allies . This was particularly in reference to the fall of the [Ludwig] Erhard regime
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; Policy Planning Council; short-circuiting channels of communication; October 1966 trade speech; Ludwig Erhard; Harmel Exercise; Vietnam; foreign policy brain trust for Humphrey; Abe Fortas; Clark Clifford
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • interpreter. The only meeting I interpreted there was a one-hour conversation between him and [Ludwig] Erhard, which was really just a couple of old buddies getting together; there was very little substance to that. G: They had known each other for a good
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of payments increment of our troops in Europe. M: Some of the European political analysts have always suggested that we pushed the [Ludwig] Erhard government so hard that we actually caused its political fall. Do you think that's an exaggeration
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ? B: That's the one I can't think of. I was trying to think of his name. A: Ludwig-- B: Erhard. A: Ludwig Erhard was there. So it was while I was out there just wandering around with Bess that Liz called on the phone, desperate as always--Liz
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Right. G: Do you remember that issue? R: No. I remember very little about it. G: The [German Chancellor Ludwig] Erhard visit? R: I remember that which--there wasn't anything particularly dramatic about it, or I think particularly significant
Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , talking to some of these old boys that he knew, you know. Because that's a little different game. G: Yes. I know Lyndon Johnson introduced Chancellor [Ludwig] Erhard one time at the Ranch by saying, "Chancellor, I am going to turn you over to the press
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : No, it was not. Jesus! Was it Willy Brandt? Well, it was somebody who later became chancel- lor, but-G: [Ludwig] Erhard? J: I've forgotten his name. I've forgotten his name, but I'll think of it. He was an economist and-G: Yes. A rather heavy-set fellow-- J
Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Ludwig Erhard was here for state business. It was one of these state dinners. The two people I remember at the dinner table--one was Luci Johnson, and the other was Van Cliburn. I think he played later that evening, no, I guess he didn't. He
  • gall bladder operation; Erhard Dinner, December 20, 1965; White House Task Force on Health and Legislative Program; heart-cancer-stroke; child health; Hill-Burton modification; Social Security proposals; Outside and Inside task forces; Cater and other
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . So I'm quite sure he did. G: Okay, the next entry I have then is, there is a state dinner honoring Ludwig Erhard at the White House, December 20. It's here on the first page. H: December 20; state dinner. My recollection is that that perhaps took
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , for a short-range German solution that we actually pushed at any time while you were there? B: The President used to say to [Ludwig] Erhard that he needed the Germans to get out there 18 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • government for a long period, [for] Willy Brandt and [Ludwig] Erhard. Of course, it was rather interesting because Johnson kept insisting on talking in those Texanisms, which the American press didn't understand, let alone the German, and Hans Neiman
Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at the time. He probably told-(Laughter) BW: "Be pleased to have you." TW: Let's see. The other German chancellor who was here was [Ludwig] Erhard. He brought him over here at a later time. BW: That impressed the German-descent people here so much. 9
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with the departure from the chancellorship of Chancellor Erhard. He was very close to the United States; he depended on the United States. He publicly stated that he owed his LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • President; access; MLF; LBJ’s meetings with Chancellor Erhard; limited withdrawal of U.S. troops; political effects on Erhard government; McCloy mission; Nonproliferation Treaty; LBJ’s viewpoint regarding the German-French agreement; relationship between LBJ
Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : That was when Chancellor Erhard was here at that time. I think that was about the last it surfaced in the press. L: Yes, I think that's right. The Chancellor was here also in 1966--Chancellor Erhard was, I recall. M: That's one of the issues on which
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • . It was a confused It really didn't make sense, but nothing made sense that day. PB: Cactus, do you recall the first big event that occurred at the ranch after Mr. Johnson becam e President? CP: Yes. It was the meeting at the ranch with Chancellor Erhard
  • Biographical information; parties at the LBJ Ranch; “tent fright;” Ayub Khan; typical barbecue; Dale Malachek and Bess Abell; Walter Jetton; Billy McElroy of the Texas Rangers; JFK assassination; stag dinner for Chancellor Erhard; Linda Loftis, Miss
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • rough Does that involve, K: Well was--yes, M: That was pretty K: ln my judgment M: Of course that that. too, dead before a lot It's as Viet to consult probably part them. Nam, for example? although Erhard Mr. of issues? troops
Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Well, when I went in 1967, 1 think that's the next big occasion, when he wanted me over to Bonn for Adenauer's funeral. M: Before you get into that, let me ask you: were you around for Erhard's visit? S: I was, yes. I mean, they had a banquet over
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the Johnson-Erhard communique which I think was June 12, 1964, they announced their intention of going ahead with the MLF and of getting the thing signed up by the end of the year. So that's the end of that particular phase of the story. M: Then what happens
Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 2 (II), 1/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • gall bladder operation; Erhard Dinner, December 20, 1965; White House Task Force on Health and Legislative Program; heart-cancer-stroke; child health; Hill-Burton modification; Social Security proposals; Outside and Inside task forces; Cater and other
Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , shortly after that first meeting, to one of the dinners at the White House for Erhard, the chancellor of Germany . me as his architect . You go through a line, and he introduced He was very charming . He has a marvelous memory . He broke ground
Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : After that, and before the Apollo flight , did you ·have any conta ct with the Presid ent? L: Yes. While we were traini ng for Gemini XII the Presid ent came down to the Cape with Chancellor Erhard, and we had an oppor tunity to meet him, to discus
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • they learned to do things with a lot of class and dignity. I was always proud of them, And Fredericksburg, Texas--to see Bill Petmecky, who was the postmaster, and he looks like a burgomeister--stand up and receive Erhard and the President of the United
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)