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Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there was a Vice President. This would make it look less like a slap at the Speaker and at the President Pro-tem of the Senate. I talked to him again after the election, informed him of our efforts, and in fact I worked closely with, I guess it was Ramsey Clark
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Castro -- V -- 2 their two attorneys here in Washington, Leroy Clarke and Frank Reeves; people at Justice including Ramsey Clark, Warren Christopher, John
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • of the Rules Committee was Senator Bennett Champ Clark, son of the late great Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri, who lost the Democratic nomination to Woodrow Hilson in 1912 because of the two-thirds rule. Clark was able to get a simple majority, but he could
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • at the time to the draft, but I felt some responsibility and an urge to get in the service. I remember meeting Congressman Johnson one afternoon in Ed Clark's office here in Austin. I had been with that firm when I first started practicing law
  • Biographical information; campaigning as a student for LBJ's unsuccessful 1937 bid; Hollers, Ed Clark and Everett Long lived in LBJ's attic while working for him; going to the Navy for two years; LBJ first to use helicopter in a campaign; first
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • else besides Abe And of course I was very, very, very fond of Mr. Fortas. Fortas? R: I would doubt it, because of his confidence and fondness for Abe Fortas. Now if he did, I would think Clark Clifford, maybe Jim Rowe would know. G: How
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh -11- 36th Division and General Mark Clark got at cross-purposes. P: Yes, sir. F: That's putting a good face on it. This even found its way into Congress. P: Yes, sir. F: Was Mr. Johnson ever in a position to take a stand
  • support of Stevenson; General Mark Clark; 1948 and 1954 campaigns; 1960 campaign; President’s club; assessment of LBJ; reserve cutbacks.
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Looney, Clark, Moorhead . know when their friendship started . I don't But it had to be, of course, after [Jimmie] Allred because they were Allred people first, all of them . I do know that--of course, Everett handled all of the details of the eighty
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and suggested that I should meet with Mrs. Johnson and Liz and Bess and Clark Clifford who was also there. We sort of noodled through the problems of how do you gracefully say nno 11 or say "yes 11 , or what to do with it--what would be reasonable and what
  • The appointment of Robert Weaver to HUD; acting as gift adviser to CTJ and Clark Clifford, drawing up guidelines for wedding gifts; CTJ responds to the Jenkins incident; LBJ's insistence that staff be on call; LBJ's blocks the transfer of Perry
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 6 (VI), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to him, and he was able to give me a cram course on international law beyond what the other lawyers had given me. B: Who was in Lands [Division] at this time? Was Mr. [Ramsey] Clark--? W: Clark, no. Clark was Deputy. [Edwin] Weisl [Jr
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . We'd go to the annual cocktail party at the Clark Thompsons' on Massachusetts Avenue, usually given in honor of the Speaker or some prominent person. Commodore E. H. Perry came up from Austin to be our house guest, and I took him to all the sightseeing
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ment of Justice." That was of .course the old agency that LeRoy Collins had headed under Mr. Kennedy, and I had had a part in setting it up. I had helped Ramsey Clark, or Ramsey and I had collaborated. Warren Cikins, who was my top assistant all
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of funny stories that I remember about it. Have I told them to you before? G: The only one I remember is the one about buying a ham in West Virginia-- J: In East Texas, in some of the country that Mr. Ed Clark knows about. Mr. Ed Clark, he told
  • smoothly; KTBC employee Louise Vine Sneed; KTBC's original location; getting KTBC's finances back in order; hiring Harfield Weedin to manage KTBC: relocating KTBC's office; help from friends like Ed Weisl, Bill Clark, and Paul Bolton; getting approval
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and argued that case. Now, I should make it clear that there were other attorneys involved too; I was lead counsel in this case as I was in the other case. Ed Clark from Austin was in the case with me; and then Will Wilson, who was then Attorney General
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Tom Clark invited me to Washington to sit and visit and to get acquainted and discuss a number of the administrative policies of the Department of Justice generally. As we had concluded our business visit, Attorney General Clark invited me to stay
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • series of new things. I hope I have a copy of that here. A friend of mi ne, Florence Mahoney, and I were great friends with Clark Clifford, who was also a great friend of Senator Johnson's, as you well know. Clark Clifford said that he would . get us
Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , these were the working type. I'm sure that Ed Clark and some of these other people didn't work there every day. up. But for the people who--and I guess they had it divided I really don't know how it was divided up there, whether John saw just a certain
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • been federal troops under the command of President Johnson that would have had to have stopped the riots instead of Alabamians and Alabama peace officers. B: Ramsey Clark was in Montgomery as a sort of the chief federal coordinator. Did you meet him
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • : Let me digress a moment. You mentioned Califano. I think it was in 1967 that a Califano memorandum was somewhat of an issue during the Congressional session; I think it had something to do with Senator Clark's job creation bill. Apparently
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Vietnamese regime; Westmoreland; Abrams; personnel in Vietnam; Clark Clifford; LBJ’s acceptance of Locke’s race for Governor of Texas – no aid from LBJ; 3/31 announcement; estimation of LBJ; Texas political structure; Lady Bird; political nature of LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to be helped. When he was out of town or engaged on other things, the deputy secretary acted in his stead in the same manner that he would have acted. When Mr. [Clark] Clifford became secretary of defense, he signed an order similar to the one that Mr. McNamara
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • useful thing. Kenneth Clarke [?] and others participated and made enough progress to where they wanted to come back and do it all over again later on. There had been other efforts. One was to write a little treatise documenting the implementation
  • counter-commission led by General Mark Clark; bickering among Selective Service Commission members and lack of direction in the commission; the president's emergency fund; the increase in number of commissions leading up to LBJ and Nixon; the role
Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Eugene Patterson Sub .i ect (s) covered 15 - 17 Built-in antagonism between the Justice Department and the Civil Rights Cormnission; Robert Kennedy Nicholas Katzenbach; Ramsey Clark; Frankie Freeman 18 '65 report on discrimination in agriculture
Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • wound up working on this, would you say? LG: Well, I did a cover memo that transmitted the whole thing to I guess it was [Clark] Clifford. I can't even remember at this point. G: Is that the one that's in the twelve-volume set? LG: Yes. And I
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • with outdoor advertising, we wanted to try to get our views before him. We had no direct line to the President. I was from Texas, and Ed Clark was a good friend of mine, and I knew that he had the President's ear at times and Mrs. Johnson's ear, because his
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in connection with the Vietnamese war. 8: I asked because Clark Clifford, who served with Mr. Trum~n with you, apparently was instrumental in the bombing halt there toward the last. M: That is true. of defense. But Clark Clifford \.,ras at that time
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I'm sure he didn't make a gift of it, because he wanted his money. One thing--if you don't want this recorded, you can mark it off, can't you? G: Yes. W: Percy Brigham, when Lyndon was elected, was a little bit like Ed Clark; he showed up as one
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 2 (II), 5/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the sort of thirst for facts that characterized McNamara. I don't mean to say that Clifford didn't want the facts, it's simply that the degree to which he went into things in detail was somewhat different I think that Clark Clifford--I don't know whether
  • to the secretary of defense; comparing Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford as secretaries of defense.
Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and [Clark] Clifford, that these were the only people who gave him solid, sound advice, and these were the only people who were not taken in by circumstances or events or even other individuals. In this particular instance, the President said that Dobrynin
  • 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, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the garden. after the brief ceremony. Secretary Rusk, too. This took place Clark Clifford was with him, and They had been having a session of same kind and happened to come over and went about very cordially greeting the guests. The President partook
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and technical aspects. They've got to have money, and they've got to have staff. Mc You mentioned in the last tape the rather intriguing meeting between Udall and President Lyndon Johnson over Alaskan land, and you mentioned that Clark Clifford
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the lawyers, as a kind of board to do a critique. He invited Clark Clifford, Secretary of Defense who was there, and I wondered why Clark was there. It turned out, he invited him, which was fine, as a kind of general adviser. He'd served President Truman
Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • think one of the things he said was-- L: It was the one about Ken Clark. G: Right. And I think he said, if my memory serves me right, that where Community Action boards are in reality a coordinating agency, that is, to bring in local government
  • Clark; Bill Crook; OEO programs; Joe Clark; assessment of OEO personnel; Dick Boone; criticism of Shriver; Milton Friedman; Jim Sundquist; Title V; Small Business Development Corporation program
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : What was that? The Biltmore? P: No, that was the New International Clark, a fourth or fifth rate hotel. I will not say it was a flophouse, to use polite terms, but J LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't you put it all down on paper for me and the President?" So that is exactly what I did. Then they made the decision that Clark Clifford should be consulted. I can remember here I needed a little bit of advice and counsel on my own hook, so I got J
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • been part of his thinking. G: Do you remember Clark Clifford's statement? Actually, there were several statements. He came out and accused the South Vietnamese government of balking at the last out of the ninth inning. K: Your notes refreshed my
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in collusion with parties like Walt Rostow, Clark Clifford, Dean Rusk; the President had his own small set of advisers looking over these drafts as they would be presented over the period of this six weeks. It was a particularly exhausting time, I recall
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • about ninety-five percent of that article through conversations with Secretary [of Defense Clark] Clifford and people who were around him in the Pentagon. He called me later that afternoon and said that my account did not square with theirs in a couple
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a center of activity. It was great big, screened on three sides, ceiling fan, lots of comfortable furniture. At some time there arrived in it, as a gift from Tom Clark, a great big double chaise lounge and we covered it full of pillows and everybody headed