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Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh able to do that with the very limited advance warning we had and so on, was a shock within government and it obviously was a shock to LBJ. You know that front page of the Washington Post that next morning with the pictures of the brand-new
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. You didn't start out to be a career diplomat . I took the Foreign Service examinations in May of 1936, and I started my first post at Vancouver at the end of December of '36 . F: Did you have any background in Latin America, or did you just sort
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Desautels -- I -- 4 went to the Post Office, that would be 1964, 1965. But the first one to come on board was Dave Bunn in the Johnson years. G: Did these people handle both House and Senate matters
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

before the coup; an offer to move Diem out of the country to safety; visiting the Presidential palace the day after the coup; flying with the Nhu children to Rome; JFK assassination; post-Diem conditions in Saigon; Georges Perruche; an explosion
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

for the Saturday Evening Post. He went to see Lyndon and Lyndon turned to him [and] said, "Now, don't be like those boys Halberstam and [Neil] Sheehan. country." They're traitors to their When I heard about it later, I thought well, Lyndon, that's the kind
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- II -- 18 press, the Times and the Washington Post, were against a tax increase all
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

contact with us because he knew that we were dependable, we have no selfish motives, and no political ambitions, none of us are candidates for any office, none of us wanted posts, but we were interested in the welfare of the community
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was doing this. was not in the room and quite properly not. I He wanted to have it a meeting among equals or peers, but I was going in and out of the office, and I was sitting at a little desk right outside his office doing my command post function
Van Kim; Ton That Dinh; Mai Huu Xuan; David Nes and Mike Dunn; management of the American Embassy in Vietnam; Lodge leaving his post as Ambassador and his political involvement; Flott duties under Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson; Max Taylor; comparing
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

got along fine. B: Do you believe that his choice of personnel was good in cabinet posts and sub-cabinet positions? S: I can't fault him with anybody that I know. his administration were good. competent~ So far as I I think the people that he had
; LBJ’s reputation in the South; LBJ’s strengths and weaknesses; LBJ’s post-presidential activities.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

from an important post returning to Washington would be received by the President. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, who is a tax man, and have kept my interest in taxation throughout my professional career. I remained in the Treasury until mid-1953. As I said, the highest post I had was as Assistant Director of the Office of Tax Analysis. I then went
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in the Washington Post on the editorial page, I think it was the Washington Post, they had a list of quotations as long as your arm going back over the years, the so-called optimistic, over-optimistic statements and so on. from any member of the Joint Chiefs
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it must have come later. B: Later? Really? Of course, he was a strong Kennedy man, he was a strong Kennedy man. But on the other hand, in a way would that have been considered a comedown to go from a number-two cabinet post to a number-two OEO post? I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that was taking essentially a sub-cabinet post, and not .necessarily the most important sub-cabinet post. M: You're a career appointee and not a political appointee. S: That~s right~ a career appointee rather than otherwise. So that was really my first
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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Oral history transcript, Julian J. Ewell, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

there until about March or April of 1970. So I was in Vietnam for two years, from post-Tet to just before the invasion of Cambodia. G: I see. What was the situation like, post-Tet? What did you find when you came in country and took over the division? E
Biographical information regarding Vietnam tour of duty; post-Tet to pre-invasion of Cambodia; Delta; Long An; Dinh Tuong occupations by Viet Cong; TO & E NVA units and Viet Cong main force; press and TV coverage of Vietnam War; body count; Hamlet
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald (Item)

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Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

price policy; union democracy; stockpiling; Direct Investment Program; balance of payments; transition; cabinet committee work on post-planning for economic consequences of the end of Vietnam War
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a grain. Late in the summer of 166-M: '65? C: '65--Jim Thompson and I had had some talks with Ambassador Louis Jones who had been Ambassador for many years to Djakarta. Jones was taking up the post as Chancellor or president of the East-West Center
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

as Deputy Under Secretary of the Army for Manpower. I served in that post for two years, so that it wasn't until 1963 that I moved to OSD and took up the civil rights job which had not hitherto existed. That was one of the by-products of the Gesell

Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

about it. President Kennedy was very firm about it being in that location. And I never heard any indication that Johnson had any other thoughts. The only group that seemed to be doubtful about it was the Washington Post. I always felt they were
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the Washington Post. M: Of course. R: I was asking Carroll and Pete Lisagor and a couple of other people if this was really true, if Johnson did have this notion LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

in the Dominican Republic, post crisis. That's really when I did get to know him. G: So then you left the government. M: I left the government and went over to Senator Kennedy's office in, I think it was either late April or May of 1966 and stayed there. LBJ
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Relations Committee? M: Well, yes, I did. The Foreign Relations Committee post opened up rather unexpectedly, to me at least. I had been kind of waiting in the wings for an opening on the committee for some time, since that was my primary area
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Now as far as Valenti's calling and calling on editors and asking them to drop our column, that, I'm sure, came from the President, because Valenti wouldn't ever do a thing like that on his own. The Houston Post was one, the Los Angeles Times
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

for Alaska and for Hawaii, giving all the reasons that both statehood advocates of Hawaii and Alaska gave. He really worked for it, too. M: He would have been more or less working on the R e p u b l i c ~ n s . B: Yes. M: And he was in a cabinet post
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

agricultural economics at the University of California Is that from California? from '46 on, and were head of the department there from '57 on. You have an impressive list of advisory and consultant posts. M: I was also Director of the Giannini Foundation
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

from his office asked me for it. And no one in the State Department asked me for it. M: When this was disclosed, did you get any flack from above about this? D: No, I got a query from the Washington Post and they asked me why and I told them

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

demonstration and dissent in prior commitments of our troops? For instance, now we have some of these coffee house organizations outside of our Army posts. R: I think the coffee houses are something I am not aware of the Army having had before. But from

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

/show/loh/oh FISHER -- I -- 10 Mc: Did you have any occasion to sori of deal with Mr. Johnson or his staff in relation to what was happening back with your constituencies-post offices and things like that? F: On occasions I did. Usually my dealings
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

immediately assumed that somebody had duplicated the key. Now in the case of Vietnam, I've always had the feeling that we reasoned from the analogy of our experience in post-World War II Europe. We looked at Communist China as though it were Russia; we looked

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: You practiced in Chicago? W: Yes. I first became an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago and served there for four years, and then became a Special Assistant Attorney General to prosecute a large mail robbery case in which a post office
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

then was--I'm not sure whether it was late 1963 or early 1964, but anyhow in that time span, post-Diem coup. G: Did you receive any special instructions in the wake of the [Charlie] Mohr departure? M: No, only that the problem with Charlie had existed
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

by_ evaluated this situation. I'd Senator Russell called me and said, "I've I need somebody to fill my press secretary's post right away, and the job is yours if you want it." I said, "Well, I definitely want it, but I think it would
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

this--in order to get to MAAG, we had to go by this big Binh Xuyen post that's right in back of what was then MAAG headquarters, which was down in the middle of Cholon. Xuyen were, manning the ramparts there. Here all the Binh We went in and we started
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

from transfusions or from the use of contaminated needles, went up. I think there's just a normal corollary to the increased sticking of needles in arms. G: Right. What about this phenomenon that's called post-traumatic stress disorder? How do you
Agent Orange; health requirements for returning to the U.S. from Vietnam; self-inflicted wounds; drug use among soldiers in Vietnam; post-traumatic stress disorder and related problems; the psychological development of people before they join
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. You hit him in the head with a cedar post . G: B: G: Let me ask you some more about the--we could go in any direction . We're not getting down to any bases here . I know that . Okay . Let me ask you one more thing about that staff meeting which you
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that if one were sitting in Washington and reading the newspaper every day, the Washington Post, the New York Times and so on, I think the conclusion would have been inescapable that the Vietnam problem as seen by the LBJ Presidential Library http
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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