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Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

moved to Washington, D.C., arriving, I believe, on about Sunday, the twenty-third of July 1967. So I was involved with them on Sunday and on Sunday night, trying in that personal way that we all have of getting settled and getting reunited with my

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in for a long night and perhaps a long aftermath . The report of his shooting was confirmed to be the grave wound and then soon thereafter a fatal wound . By one of those accidents of history, a representative of the Co.=unity Relations Service, Jim Laue

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a very interesting file. spent last night reading your file, your dossier." He left it there. I And that's all. He said, "Very interesting," and walked away or somebody else came up. You know, to have the president of the United States say, "I spent

Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

page But and mine on the other, people that read the papers could see the difference of the positions. And then the Constitution changed its position, our morning newspaper, and began to advocate it. And then people began to say that, "Well, maybe

Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

simply by reading and asking questions and staying at the office until all hours of the night. By the way this is an extremely time-consuming job. many visitors to see. You have so You never really leave the office before maybe 7 o'clock, 6 or 7

Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Kampelman. I had closed my mind to it. One night I got home from a National Symphony concert. After the concert we actually went to the Austrian Embassy, I remember that too. So we didn't get home until something like 1:15. When I got home there were

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

about 8 o'clock at night. Met Mr. Califano and spent about an hour with him, and then for the first time discovered that I was being considered to be deputy mayor of the District of Columbia. When Mr. Califano was through with the interview, he made

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

and clergy and labor and students in universities and everybody else. He even thought~ as his mind went on, I remember one night, about taking an hour or an hour and a half of prime time television to put on a documentary of what life was really like

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

for regulation in some areas . came up in odd circumstances. In the early days these things I remember, for instance, one night about 2 o'clock in the morning I was reading some applications for state technical assistance grants and I ran across the name

Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. In the late fifties, he came with Mrs. Johnson to a CBS affiliates reception in New York one night. was the Hotel Pi erre or the ~~a 1dorf, I don't recall whether if but I, of course, through a Democratic family, knew the Senator. F: In these sort

Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and were all ushered into the Cabinet Room. The President did come in, and he read his executive order and appointed each of us. As he signed the executive order he handed each of us a pen with which he signed it. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that in and out a" it. By lying to the bedroom every morning as I did, I came in contact ~1 with the speech because by-and-large the various drafts were went to the President as his night reading. When I would arrive there in the morning the speech would

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

, he did. There was another little episode that's very interesting, and that is, I read Marguerite Higgins' book, Vietnam Nightmare, and was pretty shocked to find out that President Johnson was against the overthrow of President Diem when President

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

pressures they worked--I wasn't there really--but the fact of the matter is there have been very substantial amount of hearings. And if you go back and read the Senate report which I wrote at that time, I documented the amount of hearings that had been

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

letters There was one guy I'd have to give an awful lot of credit on this, and that was Clarence Mitchell. Clarence walked those halls morning, noon, and night; and he talked to Senators, and he talked again-all of this, I'm sure he wasn't by himself

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

is somewhere between 12,000 and 20,000 men a year who now read at the fifth grade level or below and who, according to the experience of the first six months, can be raised two grade levels in reading ability in a matter of two or three weeks. This is rather

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

is your judgment of its validity and the results of its conclusio ns? J: I have studied it very carefully , and I've read most of the books that have been written--M ark Lane and various others on the subject. There's a great deai of,. Just irrespons

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at the University of Pittsburgh and later at Harvard, got this notion called the tipping theory, and it read very, very, very impressive. The only trouble with it is, it's like the theory that there is a time when if your temperature gets to be a certain amount