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Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thornberry--I--II F: Then you went over there, as I recall, with some regularity. You were his big domino convalescent partner. T: Yes, I went there, I think, practically every evening. I would go out there and we would
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • an overall point of view, I think the number of deserters and people AWOL in this war are probably significantly less than in World War II and Korea. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a particular lawsuit, recognizes it has done wrong and that the taxpayer ought to win. Perhaps that's the greatest moment a lawyer can have in representing the United States is to say, "We've been wrong. II It's not a privilege that's afforded pri- vate
Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , [and] continued in that capacity except for a short time in World War II. Returning after World War II, I was the associate director of Research and Education for the CIO. By this time John Lewis had left the organization, so Murray was the President and also
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • hadn't ever But I always felt we got along. And then he said, 1 believe when I talked to him, that I hadn't supported him. 1 said, II We 11 , Senator, you ran in 1952--1 was running. In 1954 I didn't LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • through the newspaper. In President Johnson's case, the same kind of thing happened, when we had the Titan II missile disaster at Searcy, Arkansas. guess that was 1965. I On August 11, I was out of town, and when I got back, my office was jittery
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, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there all my life except for World War II and the years I spent in Washington. I have no desire to live anywhere else. Any particular point which you want to [start with]? G: How did you get into Senator [Robert] Kerr's orbit? R: When I got out
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as a correspondent; I was not in government. One was during World War II when I was head of the United Press staff covering the whole economic phase of the war effort. Then I came back during the Korean War as the chief correspondent for an organization called
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had well over a hundred members at the University of Chicago, and when you figure at the University of Chicago the total student population was six or seven thousand, that's pretty potent. After World War II there was a period when Russia was fairly
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would not mean oblivion . Although we couldn't carry it all out, it fulfilled a very big function . The Germans could have fought for perhaps two more years if it hadn't been for that . During World War II, outside of the vague "four freedoms" we
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • have said, we [retaliated]." II Yes , they hit us, so He couldn't conceive that they would have conjured up something and faked it. But then when you got into sustained bombing, heavy, heavy B-29-or whatever the hell we were using then--bombing
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and booby traps, and here's why that's important. In World War II, for example, when we were fighting a conventional war, something on the order of 3 per cent of American LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at Harvard. Then I got caught up in the U. S. Army during World War II and had about four years of that, including a long siege of combat in Europe. When I came back from the army, I went to the Charlotte News as editor and stayed there about a year
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . is still alive, barely. Fellow named Carlos Smith, Carlos He was well thought of. He was manager. After the city bought out, he became a member of the city council. After he came back after World War II, he became manager for the city standpoint. LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Preparedness Committee, because he remembered very well that during World War II Harry Truman had been selected as Roosevelt's running mate because of the reputation he made from the old War Preparedness Committee that Truman was the chairman of. I think
Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • center, staffed by naval officers. which was Indeed, that was how Clifford and George Elsey got into the White House, via the Map Room. Because of that heritage of World War II, the Naval Aide during the Truman years was much more involved
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • II and the Chinese were determined to hang on to them. I've been there on the island. You can look out and as far as when you get up to the ground and look from there over to where you join the--when you come out of the Lotsford Road and look over
  • system; Eisenhower's World War II experience and how it shaped his views on China; failed American efforts to advise and train Chiang Kai-shek and his troops; why General George C. Marshall failed in regard to China; Judd's ideas on briefing the American
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . at the statistics. I'm now looking Overall, the man in mental categories I, II, and III--that's from the highest to about the middle--4 per cent have to be recycled or given some extra help in basic training. In the Category IV men--all the Project 100,000 men
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • home when you come on a mission of that kind." He sa i d, "When you come down here as my brother, you can stay at my home. II But he made him stay in a hotel. The reason he told me that was because we were [involved]. father here in Austin, he
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • appropriated for Title II is going to be used in Head Start, and " Y " for something else , that does put a limitation on the flexibility of the community. Now the degree to which actually the various communities would have chosen to spend the money otherwise
  • Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • [commissioner of the U.S. Office of Education Harold Howe II] and Frank [Francis] Keppel, in Education. But actually I did work with all four of those. 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • way. M: You spent some time in Washington yourself. H: Yes. M: Especially during the war years--World War II years. Did you have any relationship with Congressman Johnson when you were with the War Department, Bureau of Public Relations? H
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a corrmission in the navy or were offered one about the time you went into the army. J: Yes. G: Now, did you have any contact with Mr. Johnson during World War II, correspondence or anything of that nature? J: Well, I had one [personal contact]. I had
Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • if we had too heavy a load in front. But it was a very reliable aircraft. It had a Pratt and Whitney junior engine, which was a well-proven engine in fixed wing and it was used all through World War II in all the training aircraft. The aircraft itself
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a military aide to Westmoreland--General Westmoreland--during World War II. He had later been adjutant general of the National Guard in the State of Illinois, and he had held rank of at least major general. He had initiated, as far as I know, the first
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • assassination. The Title II, which had been so controversial, which was the 6 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
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • although they had been de-federalized shortly after World War II--I think by the early fifties they had been reverted back to the states; they were part of the state civil service structure, they were no longer part of the federal system--the 21 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in Oklahoma, and served in World War II in the Army Air Force. In 1947 you were elected to the 80th Congress from the Third District of Oklahoma and, of course, continuously re-elected. In 1955 you were named as Democratic Whip and served in that position
Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • quite a long story. I had been chief of the Washington Supervisory Investigative Department of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Through that I got into working directly on presidential directives during World War II. The main one of those
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • hopeless and stickier problem for us than we have any appreciation of. Detour, detour, detour. My all-time most important professor in my life was Eric Zimmerman at the University of Texas, who was the first professor hired before World War II under
Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • requirements, and those kind of things. These skills and this experience led toward a line of work and a line of effort that eventually qualified me for work in the Bureau of the Budget when I came here in 1949. At that point I was working on the World War II
Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ) It's incredible, the dedica- Now I'm sure that he would have gone if it had helped him accom- plish some mission that was germane at the moment. M: There's been a lot of talk about the so-called Johnson II trea tment /1 which refers primarily
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • discussions with Harold Howe II and others about new legislation. M: Who? K: Harold Rowe, the Commissioner of Education. And I've been on quite a number of task forces to recommend new legislation. M: What task forces? K: Task forces to recommend
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the chief FHA underwriter there had an opportunity to go to Chicago to work for a large private building concern associated with the Weyerhaeuser Lumber Company, and asked me to go with him. there when World War II was declared. I did, and was I