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Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • you've you're there just if you're that Johnson has done this Mr. Clark "Acting" No. He never did, conscious of them. It was charged, that a bit of a General, and to make if somebody else ought to be left for somebody somewhat
Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; the Pueblo incident; Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford; LBJ’s estimation of the enemy’s thinking; Tet offensive; the San Antonio formula; LBJ not running for re-election; LBJ’s lack of involvement in the 1968 convention; General William Westmoreland
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , myself, there was the new group of [Walter] Jenkins, Bill Moyers--I guess, [Jack] Valenti and others, and then there were three old friends, Clark Clifford, [Abe] Fortas, and Jim Rowe. And you could see those geological layers from the life of President
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • probably was of great importance to him. G: Do you think that had anything to do with his decision to have Ed Clark ambassador to Australia? B: Probably. I mean, it would make sense. But again, I don't have any feel for that. I didn't go with him
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that episode when he was in the Congress. Johnson can read men pretty well, and he read that it was time for a change there. f: Did he ever really consider anybody besides Clark Clifford as far as you know? C: Yes. He considered several people. I think
  • Heads of State visits; press corps shift to San Antonio; LBJ’s interest in Texas politics; LBJ State Park; Connally-Yarborough feud; McNamara resignation; Clark Clifford; division with Willard Wirtz; cabinet officers and White House staff members
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • [John W.] O'Daniel had come through the Philippines on the way to Indochina. He stayed overnight at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, and he said that he wanted to talk to me about guerrilla wars, which lid just been through one
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , 1970. Jim, you were present at the cabinet meeting at which Clark Clifford first became a member of the cabinet; I'd appreciate your putting down both Clifford's experience and also what you were doing there. G: Let me start with the last question
  • Clark Clifford; Leo Beebe; briefing to cabinet; Secretary Wirtz and McNamara; cabinet meetings; Congressional legislative process; Henry Ford; Paul Austin; 3/31 announcement; effects of diminished Presidential power; Stewart Udall; working
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the fairly brief period of time in which it was in existence were Ambassador Berger; Walt Rostow; Clark Clifford, who had been named to succeed McNamara but who had not yet taken over the job; McNamara; Rusk; and I think Max Taylor was in at Some of the early
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with liberal credentials and he'd like for you to come." John Connally had run that state convention and I happened to know that Cliff Carter urged him to make me a delegate-at-large after our own caucus had turned me down, and indeed also turned down Clark
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of story. What happened was I was called at Kampelman's office because I kept Pollak advised where I was--he told me--and I was supposed to report immediately to Warren Christopher, the Deputy Attorney General under Ramsey Clark. I went down
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lufkin that were on the football team: and Elvin Read. Ardis Hopper, Clark Gordon The first week of training I was there in order to get acquainted with the coaches, and at a Mrs. Gates' house, where the training table was being maintained, I met
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • called spe- cial counsel to the President, the first person really to hold that job actually was back in FDR's days I guess, when Ben Cohen was in that job. But then it took on a little different flavor when President Truman came into office and Clark
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • extent Wayne Morse, people like-G: Kefauver? 0: Well, Kefauver, but he was in a different category . What was the senator from Pennsylvania? Clark . He was a loner . Liberal senator? Oh, Joe These senators--Pat McNamara--were not in the Johnson
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • instructions? W: No, I don't think I had anything very special. My predecessor, Bill Blair, had had a very unfortunate experience in connection with some murder that had taken place at Clark Airfield. He just started off under a cloud, and he'd never been
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ], gets shown to and discussed with people the President trusts, like Clark Clifford; Dean Rusk; Abe Fortas--I don't know if Abe Fortas saw this one, frankly, because of the problems of Supreme Court Justices being too involved in White House matters
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and Clark Clifford and Abe Fortas to accept Walter Jenkins' resignation immediately; I felt that that was not the right tactic--that it would be a little bit too much--it would smack too much of abandoning a man who certainly had been a long, faithful
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that a vice president should be able to throw. Now, what they got was Les Ormes, The Elms, which was really a rather uncomfortable house to live in but ideal for entertaining. G: How did they find it, do you know? R: I think Clark Clifford found
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • disorganized, and we'll have it all done and taken care ofbefore they could regroup." Well he called. John called Lyndon, and that's fine with Lyndon. John told me about this later. And then he called me back and said, "I've called Ed Clark and told Ed
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • knew where to go. have to go where the people are. Having been a kid and To win an election, you I read about Ramsey Clark and Jake LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or memorable? I have Senators Russell, Daniel, Clements, Symington, Smathers, Pastore, Kerr, Knowland, Malone and Tom Clark, Don Cook, George Brown, Arthur Krock, Secretary Hobby and Secretary Anderson, Bill Kittrell, John Connally-J: Not really, because
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recesses of the hotel, John Connally was holed up and working night and day. Everett Looney of Looney, Clark, Thomas, Winters and Shapiro and so forth and so on, was a confidante and planner and helper. Harold Young was, too, and we were always getting
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • are that you were speaking of as advisers? J: Yes, they're all obvious really. Bill Bundy, Clark Clifford, George Ball; I couldn't tell you whether Rusk [opposed] now, Rusk may have been on his side, I don't know; I 15 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, C.E. "Curley" Doyle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Kellam and Ed Clark and Bob Montgomery. He asked me to be master of ceremonies, which I felt honored to do, and we 13 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • like Katzenbach or Burke Marshall, obviously Clark, fellows like that. If you get a lot closer to the kind of retainer- type fellow that had always been with Bob, you'd find it in their families and so on; just as I certainly found the reverse if I
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a consultant. I then succeeded Mr. Clark Clifford as Chairman of that board when he became Secretary of Defense. P:Also, during your career you've authored two books, The Uncertain Trumpet and Responsibility and Response. General Taylor, before we LBJ
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a couple of meetings. I remember [Clark] Clifford was there, I was there, [Abe] Fortas was there. finally got out. He shouldn't have been there, and he He said to me one day, "I shouldn't be at these meetings," and I said, "No, you shouldn't
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the attorney general. I think Ramsey Clark was attorney general at the time. F: Yes. S: I think that I had him on the phone, oh, I would say, within five minutes time. was granted. F: No problems at all. There were no delays. The request Everything
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • administration until I was elected governor. Then of course I could get in the White House, and I was received cordially and very warmly. B: I meant, for example, the difference between, say, Attorney Generals Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Katzenbach and Mr. Clark? M
Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • scheduled in Houston and they couldn't find a hotel that would take blacks. Lyndon sent Ramsey Clark and me down to Houston to try to straighten out the situation and find a place, a hotel, to hold the conference. We spent a couple of days in Houston
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • that time who ,jere associated in that venture. BP: Can you tell us some of those people? Well, John Co~ally, of course, our governor was one of -, the~; Ambassa~or Ed Clark, Congressman Jake Pickle, Bill Deason, one of our fine commissioners
Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • me Mr. McNamara was leaving, but not what Mr. McNamara's job was going to be. He tOld me who he was going to appoint Mr. Clark Clifford as Secretary of Defense. , He further, on that occasion, told me that he had decided not to run
Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • such a district that they would very seldom vote for a New Frontier bill. F: Could you talk with people like, let's say, Clark Fisher or Omar Burleson, John Dowdy? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • than Mr. Rusk, Mr. [Clark] Clifford, General [Earle] Wheeler, and to some extent Mr. [William] Bundy at the State Department, and the other chiefs of staff, have access to the traffic going backward and forward between Paris and LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that." And there was a point at which Baker found himself in a meeting that he thought Sarge had set up in which this issue was discussed with Ramsey Clark there, while Ramsey took the same side Baker did on that. That pretty well laid it to rest. But Shriver, you know, he