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Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • .the full-length speech entitled, "The United States Should Get Out of Vietnam." It was a full-length speech, and it was the first statement made by anybody in public life. Being an old newspaperman, I knew it was news, and I fully expected to see
Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: FRANK PACE, JR. INTERVI EWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Pace's office, 545 Madison Avenue, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You're Frank Pace, and your last full time government occupation was in 1953 \"lhen you retired as Secretary
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
  • and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • predicted my appointment in the spring, I think it was, and I, therefore, concluded I was safe. M: Did you know anything about it at that time? R: No, I knew nothing about it at that time. M: How was the news broached to you? In what manner did Mr
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But we were looking for signs of hostility Of course, there was the Dallas Morning News of that morning, with a very unfriendly ad. IIYankee. Go Home" and so forth. mostly friendly. We saw signs like, But the crowd at the airport was Kennedy
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID HALBERSTAM INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Halberstam's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 2 G: You said that you had a Lyndon Johnson story. H: Yes. I was, in 1960, working for the Nashville Tennessean
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with each other a great deal over the years. The part where perhaps I came to know him best, and had the closest association with him, was right after he became president. He requested a news media liaison from Texas in Washington, and I was the one
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of payments problem. This was something brand new to the United States, we'd never really ever encountered it. And we finally ran up against the place, and began to realize that as a nation we were spending more internationally than we were earning
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROGER HILSMAN INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Hilsman's office at Columbia University, New York Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. your last official You're Roger Hilsman, and position with the government
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that Ambassador /Henry Cabot/ Lodge took under those instructions--which was, in effect, to go to the military and say if you want to start something new, we won't be against you--those had the effect of setting in motion all the thinking and so on that in turn
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • crisis was of course involved in that era. T: I might say that my first involvement with President Kennedy was as a result of the Bay of Pigs. I was in private life in New York at the time and was called down two days after the Cuban Brigade
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to see was ~don B. Johnson. I think he was senator at that time. F: He was elected to the Senate in 1948. H: I think he'd just been elected senator. But even as a new senator he still had unusual influence in the Senate. As I slW, he
Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 12, 1971 INTERVIEWEE : ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI INTERVIEWER : PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE : Dr . Brzezinski's office at Columbia University, New York Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's just identify you for the beginning here on the tape . . B: Right . M: You're
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • or the appointment of a new one. In a business way, though, I've bumped into him perhaps half a dozen times, not on Defense matters, but during the period that I was General Counsel of the Army and in charge of the civil works program. Do you know what the civil
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , but one of particular relevance here, which was a conference in New York sponsored by an organization called Peace Without War. November I believe. It was last And there then that was all on the record. I gave a talk on the issues of press relations
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • believe, is suffering from a systemic sort of cancer, I think? N: Well, with the contaminant that's in Agent Orange, the dioxin that causes the trouble, it's not good at all, it's bad news. But I don't think that the problem is anything like it's exposed
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , in its ever-loving wisdom, had eliminated the appropriation for the domestic division of D.W.I. because they were angry because of a field survey, \~ich was that the representatives were interposing themselves between news sources and the government
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on a political trip through New He had been somewhere just before, and he went somewhere And I met him at the airport, together with the Senators and Congressmen and the Governor and we had a calvacade, which was quite well known. This is the one that took him
  • House; dealt with Cater, McPherson or Middleton; Temple of Dendur; proposed Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars; some of best new members chosen by the President; most significant achievement was survival; controversial grants; successful programs
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that we were wordsmiths . The only instance I know of anybody our level having made a definite contribution to new policy was Jack McNulty, who through reading � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • first trip to Washington. I was a new member, I met all of the Texas members, of whom there were twenty-one, including myself, at the time. them, probably, on the opening day of the session. I met all of I'm sure I did. That included Mr. Rayburn
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on the Council of Economic Advisers, put together the new JOBS program and the National Alliance of Businessmen. While the ideas for it had come out of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • not before Congress as a platform for the Democratic party in '56 and again in '60. Most of the time I was governor of New York--a considerable part of the time I was. Then afterwards I still remained as a member because we were very much concerned
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on those two points--I think the question of supply of military equipment is a very difficult one indeed and would have been difficult in any measure. But we had at that time embraced rather strongly the new Nasser regime and at least they considered
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Novak -- I --4 M: What they call the new journalism now, but it was being done fifteen years ago. N: That's right. So I did a lot of stuff on Johnson. It tended
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , as they call it? B: In 1952 of course we had a new preSident, and in his State of the Union Message he said that Hawaii should have statehood and he didn't mention Alaska. M: President Eisenhower? . B: Yes, President Eisenhower. So this started one
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • budget. It was before he got into his new offices. He was over in the Vice President's office still and it was with Mr. Heller, Mr. Gordon and myself about the general shape of the budget. That's when I carne down very firmly that it had to be under
  • of payments; LBJ's relationship with JFK's people; appointment of new Secretary; Vietnam; role of Major General William Dupey
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Oh, yes, considering that I was new and green. I was the main political guy for Brown, so there was some value from their viewpoint. B: But it was pretty heady stuff. What was your impression then of Mr. Johnson's chance for the nomination? 0
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • yacht, which I guess is how New Englanders analyze character. anything. I didn't drive the boat into any rocks or But, more seriously, we talked about the mission and his plans, and I think it was largely just a question of being personally acceptable
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • GOLDSCHMIDT (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Goldschmidt's horne in New York City November 6, 1974 MG: Let's start from the beginning and the first time you met Lyndon Johnson. EG: Well, I met him in a very characteristic way
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ," I'd talk about "the economic-fiscal-financial group." It got to be such an awkward handle that I one time decided that if we had the Troika, which had already been named, the least I could do was get a new handle for this group of four. So I looked
  • Troika; Quadriad; Council of Economic Advisers; administration differences; details of tax cut; trade-offs with Congress on budget cuts; Wilbur Mills; Harry Byrd; origin of tax cut; Samuelson Task Force; “new economics;” tax increases; Vietnam’s
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on November 28, 1928 . I was brought up most of my life in Passaic, New Jersey ; went to public schools there and met my wife there . Then I did my undergraduate and graduate work both at Columbia in New York City
Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • require a formal reappointment with each new administration? W: No, no, the appointment continues with the pleasure of the Secretary of Agriculture. B: All right. May I also as~ this is--again as I told you before the tape was on--so the future
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there was not a strong and yet poorly articulated commitment. During the first many months of his Administration Johnson did nothing either very new or very definitive to try to reduce or indeed to increase our involvement. It was basically, from his point of view I
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a little I believe it was three more meetings that you had with Mr. Johnson. A: Yes, I would like to. Last fall, I believe it was--must have been maybe fairly early in November--I had come to the conclusion that I really could not afford to stay in New
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • President Kennedy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] did, very candidly, was to get it a new euphonious name. Alliance for Progress. More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: HARRISON SALISBURY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MUu-iOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Salisbury's office, New York Times, NeVI York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by simply identifying you, sir. You're Harrison Salis- bury, and you've been with the New York Times
  • Working for the New York Times; Salisbury’s trip to the Far East in 1966; getting permission to go to Hanoi; a possible connection between Salisbury’s visit to Hanoi and the Marigold negotiations; trying to convince the Vietnamese
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new board. The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera- tions of the federal government. B: Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in those
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was sent down there the deal and it was just a possibility at that point, of three or four ministers in a closed TV studio. evolved down there, and of This was an entirely new format as it course~ they weren't on the scene and I was. Woodrow Seals
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of the news if I'm not mistaken, was an the Buddhist monk so-- in those days . And it's sort of a puzzling story, because I gather he was a puzzling sort of a person . Is that accurate? � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • handle the news press, they would talk to the local politicians, but they actually ran the campaign . Completely innovative ; some- thing like that had never happened in American politics before . It worked tremendously . Well, we got to the convention