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

in many ways to sound off in regard to foreign policy. F: Well now, on Appropriations did you make a special sphere for you of foreign aid? M: Well, on the Appropriations Committee that was my special area in the LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the stage for me? Can you tell me what kind of situation you discovered on your hands, so to speak, when you arrived? M: I got off the plane at about eleven a' clock in the morning. I was met by General Davidson's aide; he was out in the field

Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the embassy and the mission. G: Were you chiefly concerned with the internal operation of the mission? T: Well, the mission of course, at least at this point, included everything, including MAAG and their very big USOM or AID mission. I had purview

Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

bit. H: You mean in August. G: Yes, sir. Well, beginning in August, right. Were there problems, dissensions between agencies ih Saigon that you know of? I'm thinking of nothing in particular, but I'm picking the CIA and AID, for example. LBJ

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was to ask you about the role that the Americans played in helping Diem consolidate himself. B: Well, of course, we gave him--the simple fact that we were supporting him was in itself a big plus for him, and we were pouring in the aid. There were a lot

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Phillips -- I -- 5 which we advocated during the campaign--like a minimum wage increase, housing, federal aid to education, social security

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that after Korea we had the cry, "Never another Korea," and that was in '53. In 1954 President Eisenhower signed a letter to Presi- dent Diem offering him aid in South Vietnam. In other words, even while the cry was still in the air, "no more Koreas," we

Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there? Because a friendly nation asked us to help them repel aggression and three presidents have made that pledge." wasn't true. No. Three presidents hadn't made it. Well, it Eisenhower never promised anything but economic aid, and Kennedy never made any

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

the other man is doing, and what he does that he should no longer do. For example, what could the Bureau do to carryon where, for example, AID has phased out. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

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

: When he told you that did he have reference particularly to the staff in the sense of the White House aides? S: I think it was a general statement, and I think he told it to me in reference to one of the reasons why he wanted to set up this school

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, on that trip doing anything more than out of the ordinary to aid Democratic politics in Utah? M: Well, I don't know whether you'd say out of the ordinary. attempting, of course, to help us in Utah. He was Walter Granger had run for the Senate just two

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

sick or have to go for an operation in their retirement made it possible. ESEA provided federal aid to education for schools and districts that reached significant numbers of poor students. Rent supplements and a whole lot of special housing programs

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 16 AID projects . And it just seemed to me that a common administration could be beneficial and efficient . Also

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

assistance in South Vietnam to advisors, even though Kennedy had increased the number of these advisors from the few hundred to some twenty thousand by the time of his assassination. But the role was that of aiding, instructing, equipping the South

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

as a White House aide on the national security side of McGeorge Bundy's shop and then later with Mr. Harriman throughout the period 1966-67; then you came to the Institute for Defense analyses during 1967 where you still are. C: Right. M: Did you know Mr

Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was then president of NBC and who later became a Johnson aide--he was the man to whom the displeasure was made evident, and he never to this day has mentioned it to me. This is where I think the President sometimes mi sea lcul atedo M: Do you think the President

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with commercial loan operations, but this is too much like foreign aid--like giving it away. II That was the difficulty we ran into. Now with the Inter-American Bank, the Latins had felt for many, many years that they needed a bank of their own. They said

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

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

o'clock, called He was sending a special foreign aid message to Congress the next day, wanted us to brief the leadership, the key committees involved, bipartisan. downstairs. Prepare the list, prepare the list. I think this was January, because

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

] Trueheart? F: Yes, subsequently Ambassador Truehart; then Minister-Counselor Trueheart. And the political counselor. The head of AID [Agency for International Development] was there, and General Harkins. going from the residence at ten o'clock

Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

are, and we proved that you can take a fighter aircraft and cut off all its radio assistance, all of its navigation aids through radio, and just go time and distance. And we developed this to such a fine art that we could navigate over sixteen hundred miles

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. In the meantime-B: Why was Mr. Katzenbach in--? G: Well, because there's a strong foreign policy aspect to all of this. It affects the AID program, the classification of countries, our whole economic relations are involved. And one of the things he wanted

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

budget at least, relatively minor supplemental appropriation requests, primarily I think for military assistance to the South Vietnamese and some economic aid. thing less than a billion dollars. I think the total came to someThat was the first, if I

Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

to work at it. And our institution was drawn into it. He had people from this institution all over the world, as Ambassadors or others in AID or in this or in that. thing. It didn't bother him to put them on commissions or any- People like Hobart

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to read and write--using radio and television. Bosch was encouraging this very much, and AID was coming in, and everybody was flocking down there. Bosch. So I had a long talk with I was very much impressed by him. I don't think he could run

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to boost his own role. was impossible. O'Donnell said it I remember that Ted Clifton, who was the military aide, heard about it and felt this was not the way that John Kennedy would really want it, so he made the arrangements for Lyndon Johnson to visit

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lasker -- II -- 6 the powerful aid of Senator Hill. As they furthered

Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

legislation? F: No, I don't recall. I had very little occasion to deal with him directly regarding such things. Usually my relationship was with some of the aides in the White House, so far as legislation was LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: And Johnson? Did he go, too? S: No, Johnson didn't go; just those, and probably an admiral--can't think of his name right now--a naval officer who was Taylor's aide. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the point that he wasn't interested in his earlier career in foreign affairs at all. While you served President Truman, either in the White House or as Mutual Security Administrator, did Mr. Johnson ever take any interest in the foreign affairs aide? Did

Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, there was a health LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 22 bill passed--federal aid

Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

accurate our bombing is, because there were only sixty-one people killed in Nam Dinh in a period of eighteen months. off. II That's how far this is But anyway, he and I guess a couple of his aides were the LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

and minds?" Vietnamese?" "Are you running an efficient counterpart in your So that that soldier or that AID officer or whoever was out there, in response to such quest ions, would tend to say, "Yes, we've pacified this area." "Yes, we've got a perfectly

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and there were reports of traveling back and forth in November, December, January, We had built up by February Ist, let us say, a pretty clear picture that the Soviets were by way of negotiating a resumption, in effect, of arms aid ; we didn't, I think