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Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

there as fast as you can go." said, "I'll take off in five minutes." I I did, going by helicopter. I took my aide de camp, Lieutenant by the name of George McBride, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

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

, and then with the Georgia delegation relating to releasing of the Federal Aid Highway funds that had been temporarily withheld because of the inflationary problems the country was encountering at that time. I met with him about specific projects here in Georgia. B: When

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, with me coming to Washington, went on over the period of a couple of months. And we finally capitulated. What Marvin wanted me to do was to go over to the Department of State for a few months to help them get the foreign aid bill through. Then if I

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 3 (III), 12/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

aid or military assistance; there you've put in the lives of your own people. And General Marshall was quite clear that a time would probably come when the American people would be unprepared to do that. I think he was particularly moved

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

decided to take him home. He [Johnson] was very noisy, very loud--we asked around and he had no aides with him, he had no car. So we took him down the elevator and put him in a taxi and sent him home. The next day, you know, the Majority Leader used

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

B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bartlett -- I -- 12 the forties and the fifties, who was aiding your husband the most as far as congressional people

Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

or on the same frequency with the Vietnamese, you can put them in one of those categories. I am not able to always categor- ize them immediately, but we had some people over there like Jane Fonda who was aiding and abetting the enemy. And whether

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was the ADC [aide de camp?] of the Eighth Division, knew me and worked with me on a couple of exercises, and he was brought back from Europe to be the special assistant to the secretary and the chief, I think, for counterinsurgency. The reason was that, you

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

: The Johnson aides in describing this are inclined to link the Lawrence nomination with the [Abe] Fortas nomination. M: Yes. That was the other judgeship. G: First of all, was there a connection here? Did Senator Russell oppose the Fortas nomination

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

to Washington, not because I had any feeling of jealousy with respect to an ambassador's position but because I could see only trouble. In every joint meeting you had of the military and State Department and AID and CIA and so forth, all of us, the question

Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[Johnson said,] "Tip, You know better than this . I am just telling you that the young fellow is going to die on the vine . I am asking you to give me your second choice along the line, give me some help, some aid-and support in New England after

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

of combat forces was fleshed out . honcho of that policy for Secretary McNamara ; that is, all the things that were supplied under it, the additional-military aid, the equipment for the strategic hamlet program, were all funneled through my office so that I

Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

type. So that's when I took that year, as I mentioned to you, a position over at AID. sorted some other things out. I went over to AID for a year while I And Peter Libassi became the deputy staff director under Taylor. Lewis, the fellow who

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of a sudden, bang!, they went the other way. ~~: This was I think a body blm'l. What about the Kennedy aides who stayed on through that first year when you were watching it still from the outside? Did they actively serve him badly so far as you could tell

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

and he put in a call for me that afternoon he made his decision. I called back, and by that time I got one of his aides, and it was all over, I guess, I didn't LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

about Africa where some 10 per cent of our population originated. M: And a great deal of what is known ain't so. Have you been particularly pressed for many more grants and aids in this area since this has grown up? K: Well, we've actually tried

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. In effect, Larry from the White House handled domestic, and I handled foreign. no votes on the foreign stuff. Well, there were really For example, I had the annual foreign aid bill, and that's like trying to sell leprosy on the Hill, and various other

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

it and supported it; and third, because he encouraged our task force throughout its deliberations. M: Was part of your consideration here federal aid to cities; that is, the sharing in the sense that cities would benefit? P: The consideration

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

got in trouble with the chief of staff over there, Walter-G: Walter Jenkins, yes. C: --Jenkins. [Marvin Watson?] And he had a Jewish attorney over there that was left over from Kennedy's period that he was--Mike. name? What the hell was his

Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

platform. I recall matters pertaining to Rule 22, the filibuster rule, and getting civil rights legislation going over there. I got quite impatient. I recall sending some rather abrasive letters to the gentleman, and I had Some of his aides call up

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and Admiral Dick Byrd, who had been his aide when he was Vice President. Also, that was immediately prior to the Israeli-U.A.R. confrontation, and, as a matter of fact, Prime Minister Wilson was in the White House at the time, LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

activities in the activities in the transition process? P: I had contacts with a number of the Nixon aides on sort of a friendly basis. I knew Bryce Harlow very well. We were both Oklahomans, and Bryce had been helpful during our Administration

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in preserving the weak ones and the Oriental has--our future depends on the strong ones. G: I wanted to ask you next about the Free China Fund that you set up for aiding refugees. J: Yes. We set it up. It was really called Committee for a Million. We got

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Is this Tran Van Don? ~~: Yes. He d been 1 i eutenant or capta in in the French army. I Don had been aide-de-camp to Emperor Bao Da i. down the line. You "'Eoul d go right Some of them had been born in France, some of them had been educated in France

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

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

very strong statements about Vietnam in 1954. The whole military advisory effort was carried out under the Eisenhower Administration, and the very extensive aid program began under Eisenhower. So, I would say that from that time on, from Geneva

Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it ought to be done, how we would select them, the aid that we would have of the merit scholarship organization under Stallnecker and so on. So it wasn't something that he just put his name to that someone else developed. F: Now, as an educator

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the Redevelopment Agency, and we got underway the redevelopment program that Mayor Lee of New Haven won national recognition for. Then, at the end of 1958 I took a ten-week tour of duty with AID in a consulting contract on leave of absence from New Haven

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that, operate effectively as aides to the Department operating officers: R: Oh, yes. M: No problems of communication there? R: No, they're very helpful. M: You feel like your things get through to the President when you need them through. R: Yes, when

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

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

helicopters available we didn't have to establish whole blood depots up in each battalion aid station. And by not having to do that, we didn't need refrigerators. And by not needing refrigerators, we didn't need generators to provide the electricity to run

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

war. In effect, they just did bloody nothing to help the Chinese in this very symbolic little fight over Chinmen. So I date the definitive split as at that time with Mao pressing for military aid but not wanting any Soviet troops on his shores

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

employees working in the Embassy, for instance, your AID or your intelligence area or anything else. A: In Sofia? P: Well, yes. A: Or Copenhagen? P: Either one, but I was thinking--did this corne to bear in this particular situation

Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

country you want to Q D P H It's got to be made clear why they need this aid or why they need this military assistance and all this. And you have to sort of argue their case. Now, in general, you know, in any country where patriotism sometimes has

Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

involvement. to justify American military aid, I believe in that. advisers, I believe in that, too. Not Not to justify But to justify direct combat involve- ment. G: That brings me to a question. You make a very strong argument in your book on Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 22 Lodge recommended, that various sanctions be imposed upon Diem-holding back aid, various things to remind him he'd better see the Ambassador and listen to his advice--something that Diem was not doing at the time

Oral history transcript, Keith Waller, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the Sabah-Sarawak area who were fighting Indonesian troops in the same area. Yet throughout all that we maintained com- paratively normal relations with the Indonesian government in Djakarta, and we continued our aid program for Indonesia even though we

Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the Kennedy Administration, kept over as a White House aide into the Johnson Administration. G: Would it have been [Theodore] Sorensen? S: No, no. Less prominent than that. Anyway, he was doing jobs of various kinds for Bobby Kennedy at this time. my