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Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan

Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

got there in about 1943 . I had been discharged from the navy during World War II because of some high blood pressure and some hypertension and I was sort of at loose ends . I was in Washington, and at a party I met then-Senator Ernest McFarland

Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

; and they were sort of pushed into the Foreign 6 H U Y L F H But anyway, this Z D V done, and I don't really think it helped the Foreign 6 H U Y L F H as a whole. M: You Z H U H back in the days toward the H Q G of World W a r II, appointed as liaison

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

did build dams; over the years we have built several. But at that time, we didn't have any equipment. G: What kind of work did you do during World War II? W: For the government? G: Yes. W: Our main project at that time [was] we built Camp

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

for the funeral. Do you remember that? W: Yes. G: Was he close to his Uncle Tom? W: Very close. His Uncle Tom worked for me for many years. G: Oh, he did? W: Yes. He was a lot of help to me over the years. G: During World War II? W: Yes. When Tom

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan

Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

; State Department under Dean Rusk; LBJ as a manipulative speaker; Vatican II Council; M. Feldman and the Jewish community; Dungan appointed ambassador to Chile

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org .' ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh .. INT ERV I E~J II I DATE

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan

Oral history transcript, Josh H. Groce, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was in World War II and actually didn't even know Coke Stevenson. He was governor most of that time. I'm trying to connect up the--this has been forty years ago, and it's very difficult for me to place things. I kept thinking that here's something, but that led

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--and in this case some of the advocates [opponents?] of civil rights legislation--Russell Long--really read that signal right, because I think the time had come, I think because of World War II and [President Harry] Truman's order insofar as the armed forces. I

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

where , ~.;h e . __ commit t ee of 'ih ii: e i-lous e--somei:.;'les ?eni:ago n. sorne c irnes St a ce Jeoa rt men c-- ')eoul..;! plan c nese ;:_.:.:is . t t e \ ite H.o us e , th e Presi Ge ne r a l h · ~ e milita r v oeo ple n t 1 s pi lo t

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

winning Pulitzer Prizes for their glorious exposes and so on, then it became an epidemic in the press corps, and people began to think, "Well, that's the way to get ahead in this business. salary. II That's the way to win prizes and double your

Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Douglas-II D~ Maybe not. Maybe not, although live often

Oral history transcript, Reynaldo G. Garza, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

still be up in Washington, and I know I can do lots more for you than he can. thing. Let's be practical about this I want you on my committee. use my name. II I told him to go ahead and Allan Shivers called me and I told him that I had just told

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

. II I didn't know at the time who had written them, at that exact time, but I found out several months later that the handwriter had been then Lieutenant Colonel Robert Gard, G-A-R-D, who was the military assistant to McNaughton at the time

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

with the President was on the subject of our dependents. dependents. He was terribly worried about the American Even at the time I went over, he gave me a long talk--"I think we ought to get them out just as fast as we can. II I asked him to please let me get

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

there. M: But he said, II I have an appointment with Sall next week. I'll try to pursue that. Tha t' s worth fi ndi ng out about. '). ". Tell him that somebody said it; don't tell him that I did. M: Oh, no. R: I've seen him a lot since

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, it looks to me 1ike you have written III i noi s off. II The answer came back over the phone, "You said it, I didn't." And I learned later that that was true. least, it was told to me as being true when I was on the plane At LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, but it was the kind of thing he did periodically, almost in exasperation as though-.to say) "Get away, I don't want to do it"--run--or·'.';i.t~s wrong, somehow. II political instinct in him that said he shouldn't run. Imean~ theJ;e was a deep Also, he

Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that we've prosecuted except for World Wars I and II, have been unpopular at some point or another within the United States and have placed the presidents who prosecuted them in very real political jeopardy . M: I don't ever know that the Council's the place

Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

does, very \'Je II! PB: Harvey, I can appreciate that it was quite difficult to set up these helicopter landings in small towns and get him advertised, etc., and get a crowd out for the candidate, but when you went into a big town, your problems must

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and I was involved in the litigations during the period of 1961 to 1964. B: I know that Attorney General Kennedy on occasions used what he called a "team approach II in various matters in the Justice Department where people, regardless

Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

involved in any of the campaigns or anything like that? P: Well, when I returned from World War II and worked in the office with Senator Wirtz directly, I ran into Lyndon Johnson many more times than before the war, because he was coming to see Alvin

Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and VJe won this thing by two votes. II He said, "Hhat four people?" He had not seen that memo, and he was absolutely furious with whomever it was in the office who did not give it to him. I think he was talking to McNamara or somebody of that level

Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

wouldn't be necessary, that in World War II they put the port out of commission by sinking an old tub in it and the Japanese couldn't use it for two years." could do that." I said, "You And he said, "Yes, but Admiral Sharp said also that it's a political

Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

have to say, to. G: 11 0h no, that wasn't what the deal was. That's not what you agreed II Is there anything else you would like to add in this session? you are pressed for time here. I know I hope we can get together again maybe this spring

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

decision to enter active military duty following the attack on Pearl Harbor; how LBJ's office was run with Lady Bird Johnson's help during LBJ's deployment; life in Washington D.C. during World War II; LBJ's involvement in the Naval Affairs Committee

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

How Rather went to work for LBJ; LBJ's work on National Youth Administration (NYA) projects on the West Coast before shipping out with the navy in World War II; Lady Bird Johnson's interest in photography, movie-making and drama; Rather's

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that he did go to Europe at the close of World War II with Ed Hebert. R: What was that [for], to find surplus property? Well, I just have a faint recollection about that, although I didn't have anything to do with it because I was in Houston. I just have

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it, but I wonder with the forthcoming election if it's politically timely. II You know, he is such a wiseman that he considered all aspects of everything. it; there was no question about it. He was greatly in favor of It was the timing that he

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

me if I'm wrong--I gather that very serious attention began being given Alaskan statehood in Congress after World War II. President Truman's message. Of course you've indicated This was of course almost simultaneous with Senator Bartlett's election

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

been a little bit like the Battle of the Bulge in World War II in which they threw it all in one last desperate effort, and at that point they were on the verge of collapse. T: I think maybe if we had followed up what I believe was a military

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

orchestrated. There was none of that. His view was--and God knows, he may have been correct--his view was very simple, very patriotic, very World War II, very World War I. G: Mobilization. C: Mobilization, you go, and very simple, straightforward, apple pie

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

mean I was. I didn't laugh, I'll tell you that. Not as shaken. It didn't even actually--by that time maybe I had gotten jaded--it didn't bother me as much as you know, we've been through the meeting with Pope [Paul II] haven't we, when the Pope said

Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and I was an officer for three and a half years, an infantry officer in World War II. about how the machine works and how the mind works. I know something I know, for exam- ple, that as a young cadet and as a junior officer, I was taught what every

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

hospital of Creighton University, so that I thought I'd go over there and take a look at Nebraskan fields. M: And then of course you went into World War II. G: That's correct. I volunteered as an infantry officer from Nebraska when I finished my