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  • American ambassador was touching base with the Buddhists, and that the United States of America was not having any part of kicking around Buddhists or raiding other people's churches. G: Okay. F: It was a good Kennedyesque statement that Lodge agreed
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DUTTON -- I -- 30 I thought and I think that in 1964, as to how he conducted his campaign, he had one of the great opportunities in America to turn towards detente. He lost an opportunity to go down as one of the really
  • being considered for the Cabinet post? H: No, not at all. discussed. No, it never had been discussed. Nothing had been We did all we thought we could for the party. When I went to South America with a bunch of governors--twenty-five or thirty
  • people? N: No, I don't. The Department of Agriculture man later came up here, and the last time I talked to him, I think he was going to South America. Sorry I can't remember his name. It's been twenty years or more. B: Was the Stevenson side
  • , donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview of Arthur C. Perry conducted on November 15, 1968 in Washington, D.C., and prepared for deposit
  • , "Saskatchewan. Hhere are you from?" He said, "I'm fr om Texas." "Well," he said, "tell me. What kind of country is Saskatchewan?" The Canadian said, "Well, a whole lot like your state except friendlier to the United States." The old secession psychology
  • and Cliff Carter. I started off the way anyone starts off, handling correspondence. F: Writing warm, friendly letters? S: \~arm and friendly letters to politicians all over the United States, with a lot of guidance from both of those individuals. I
  • think of and read and talk to and interpret some of what black thought is, but it's a disservice to your principal if he's president of the United States. not to let him get firsthand [opinions]. F: But it still filters through you? A: Exactly
  • , 1971 INTERVIHJEE: EL~lER INTERVIHJER: 1. H. BAKER PLACE: Washington, D.C. B. STAATS Tape 1 of 2 B: This is the interview with Elmer B. Staats, who is the comptroller general of the United States. If I may give a little bit of your background
  • the announcement. F: You B: Yes, like everybody else. just got it like every other Mr. and Mrs. America. Allen Duckworth was over at that suite when it happened and he was astounded as anybody. We all \'Iere astounded. F: Duckworth was there when
  • for his country . He was not a petty, vindictive sort of a man, and he was President of the United States, and I think they felt, as I did at the time, that it was our job � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • which was when Dean Acheson was brought in as a backstaits mediator. F: Did the fact that you and Ralph Bunche strategically located in the United Nations act as an advantage to us other than Bunche's sort of personal attributes, or did he disassociate
  • and our Foreign Service looked like, and its discriminatory patterns; and the failure of our nation to place ambassadors, specifically in the United Nations. He helped fight those battles, which took some convincing, but not a hell of a lot. F
  • on :to my record, that I was duly trained by them. Little did I know at the. time that the powers that be were starting to make up camera units to be assigned to numbered air forces, and I ended up being assigned to the Thirteenth Air Force in Guadalcanal
  • DATE: INTERVIEWEE: HONER THORNBERRY INTERVIEl.JER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Judge Thornberry's office at the United States Courthouse, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Judge Thornberry, to begin this, how did you first get to know Lyndon Johnson? T
  • was dead but before Kennedy's body was removed, and nobody made any attempt to follow him, although he was then president of the United States. He left, actually, just minutes--my recollection is--before the death was announced. reasons. And of course