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Oral history transcript, Julian J. Ewell, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Assistance Command, Vietnam, which was Westmoreland's headquarters and then Abrams'--required a fairly voluminous set of statistical reports. I can't recall all of them, but I would guess you had to report on about ten different things daily or weekly
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : Congratulations on your new degree of infallibility. It is richly deserved." He was promoted into two stars for this job. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in awhile there was an effort to set them up on some sort of a schedule, but it always seemed to me to dissipate. I believe that there were routine and periodic, probably daily, meetings 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the committee when you did, though, didn't he? S: The committee was disbanded. Roy Cohn didn't get along. Catholic. A new committee came up. Kennedy and Bobby was very anti-communist, a devoted He had discovered some things for McCarthy, about Chinese
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it up. I think also this was around Thanksgiving time, which gave it some special relevance in the press. Another category of letters for release would be the Vietnam mail. Some of these cases actually came to our attention through the news media. I
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and the executive branch. F: Were you privy--you know Ernest McFarland lost in '52 and they needed a new leader for the Democrats, and after some backing and filling Senator Johnson became then the Minority Leader. Were you in on any of that talk with the Senator
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the country, testing the water. I had never been with him in a campaign for office in Texas. I had never campaigned with him. so it was a new experience to see how much he enjoyed it. He just had to reach the people, you know. The Secret Service had one
Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of President Kennedy? P: Not as a presidential appointee, as a so-called administrative appointee of Fowler Hamilton, the new administrator of AID. M: Then you were in this agency then during the course of the Kennedy Presidency, and have remained
Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ]. there are jokes on me that wouldn't hurt. I guess I remember one time - -I gues s a lot of people know it, too--but when he would get his new shoes, he would ask me to wear them and break them in for him. So one day when we were at the White House, I met him
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • here, that we were trying something new, things were going well, we certainly had our difficulties. G: Have you ever read Halberstam's book, One Very Hot Day? M: Yes. G: Do you recognize the people in there? M: No, not really, and I
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , dumb, academic questions and finding out who knew what and so on. So I guess I was probably the first 001 analyst to go overseas, back in 1950. I went to London to set up the exchange of NIEs, the National Intelligence Estimates, which were new
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : INTERVIEWEE: MICHAEL FORRESTAL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Forrestal's .office, Shearman and Sterling, 53 Wall Street, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You're Michael Forrestal. You were a Far Eastern expert with the National Security
Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things about a new program is that it succeed and demonstrate successes." And I said, "If that means reducing the scope and size of the program, then that's what we'd better do." Well, it turned out we didn't have to do that because, again
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • any overtures toward you before this? E: I can't remember. Billy Lee was working for Ronnie Dugger on the Texas Observer, which was a very new, young little paper. Billy Lee was making such a small amount of money--he was doing really good work
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Flynn -- I -- 2 force; the exodus of enlisted guys had finished; new guys were coming in, and we were starting to sort out other missions, useful missions. And then about the next event
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- VIII -- 7 around in that area, because everybody would be delighted, and to the weekly or daily newspapers. Most of them were
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the LendLease hearings with Elizabeth Rowe, and we listened to [James Bryant] Conant, the president of Harvard and to the bouncy little mayor of New York, [Fiorello] La Guardia. I remember [Wendell] Willkie passed me in the hall, one of the most vital, vivid men
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Senator lSam] Ervin of lNorth] Carolina also had spoken very favorably and highly of his capability to get things done. G: How long did it take him to get to know you well? R: I tried to go by his office almost daily, and I found that the best time
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "But I have promised my boss' wife some for a dinner party for tomorrow night. did. II And they said, "Well, we'll do the best we can." Well, they Bes s got her venison for her dinner party. But I left in the taxi a brand new evening dress that I had
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of age, her parents, the Baineses, lived in Blanco and about a half mile or possibly two-thirds or three-fourths of a mile from where my parents lived. She skipped through the wooded section there and visited my mother almost daily for two or three
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the news traveled very fast and was shocking to 1 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
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • staff who gave him a daily briefing and, of the intelligence briefings. course~ he got Whenever there was any development of any significance we made sure from Harriman's office, and I'm sure that Rusk did the same thing in his office, that the Vice
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • She had two older brothers, and one of them was living close by--Tom, Tommy, Thomas Jefferson Taylor, Jr.-the other one, Tony, was in New Mexico at the time. coin a phrase, the apple of his eye. But Bird was, to I remember his--do you want to ask
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of itself was a little bit unique. No problem at all getting the small-city daily publishers together, but the big ones didn't come together that often or that easily. So Ted Dealey was there, and of course Ted Dealey congenitally disliked Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE iP5) July 31, 1969 This is a continued session with Mr. Henry Fowler, former Secretary of the Treasury. The interview is in his office in Goodman Sachs and Com- pany in New York City, 55 Broad Street. The date
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 1 (I), 7/3/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • do recall very vividly that he was a reporter for the Washington Daily News, the ScrippsHoward paper in Washington, at the time the billboard bonus law of 1958 was enacted and at the time it was amended in 1959. The Department of Commerce kept
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . It seems to me we left on Labor Day, ahead of schedule, which is typical--impetuous--off to Europe. My o~~ position on it, I wasn't, of course, filing any daily stories on the thing. I was to take notes along the way, particularly listening to both
Oral history transcript, James Cato Pattillo and Nettie Pattillo Woodyard, interview 1 (I), 6/27/1968, by A.K. Johnson (Item)
  • your time? W: I guess we went swimmi ng more than anythi ng el se. local creeks. We swam in the two Several summers we made almost daily trips to Gores [?] Pond in Clanton. We had watermelon cuttings, and I went with her on many occasions
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , everybody'd get involved in the sense that he'd call around and he'd say, "Who do you think ought to be on the Supreme Court? Who do you think ought to be the new secretary of commerce?" M: Call around to his staff, you mean? C: My feeling was that you
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was being moved routinely, and Johnson was not resisting. The State Department then selected, to be his successor and to do sort of a new job as foreign affairs aide with some substantive overtones-selected Eugene McAuliffe. Gene was somewhat senior to me
  • Mondale’s trip to Paris; how a trip to Italy led to a job working on LBJ’s staff; Scandinavian trip with LBJ; LBJ “misbehaving” on VP trips; LBJ and foreign affairs; LBJ’s old-fashioned nature; LBJ’s ability to win over a crowd; delivering important daily
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • under James Eastland. S: Right. F: And I forget who you've got in the House, but undoubtedly-- S: Manny Geller from New York. F: You didn't have any problem as far as the committee in the-- S: In the House. F: What do you do to jack it out
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Judd -- III -- 10 [inaudible]. What he said, "In October, 1977 [1917], we parted with the old world. We are moving toward a new world. A communist world. It's all there. We will never part. Never stray away from that path." Now after
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Judd -- III -- 10 [inaudible]. What he said, "In October, 1977 [1917], we parted with the old world. We are moving toward a new world. A communist world. It's all there. We will never part. Never stray away from that path." Now after
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could contribute more to the Judiciary Committee than Lehman could. Lehman was, with all due respect to New York, not 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the Subversive Activities Control Board. We talked about that didn't we? G: Yes. This was Dirksen's man on the-- C: I just noticed before the bipartisan [congressional leadership] meeting he's got, [reading from President's Daily Diary] "Off-the-record Senator
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the first one I encountered was New Zealand. couldn't believe thac all of that was necessary. Thev jusc 3ut thev didn't realize that when the Ame-::-ican President travels, he travels with dozens and dozens of press. The British might have three or four
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . He He had time to study them. He could later ask, questions about them, and they were closely, well-written documents all the way from the President's daily brief, which he got every night and which gave him a quick rundown on important things
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and LBJ and some of the New Dealers were supporting Roosevelt. forces? Do you recall that issue, the stop-Roosevelt LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org L: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Clint Anderson of New Mexico. Do you have any kind of an account of what happened? G: Let's see. R: Well, it's irrelevant. That's easy enough to get. The important point was that while with those two amendments the important--all
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • . The reasons for describing this will come out in a moment. Mr. Johnson had requested that I try to find him someone else to help in this work, and I had employed a young man named Horace Busby who was at that time the graduating editor of The Daily Texan