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Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 17 factor was. Le t me see if I remember. recommendation was this; appointed. The way the ABA committee had it for they put in a rule after Sarah Hughes got They got forced, they thought

Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: There again I think each individual who is working significantly in their field was dealing with the appropriate liaison people. I would think, for example, that Sundquist would have been dealing with the agricultural committee staff people and key

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Germany have a national nuclear weapon. But I believe also the Navy was rather interested in the MLF because it would involve an expansion of the Navy and would provide a new type of naval nuclear weapons system in addition to the Polaris, because
; feeling of NATO countries; European Allies and Vietnam War; McNamara’s speech regarding the ABM system; Czechoslovakia crisis; German problem; LBJ’s relationship with Kissinger; LBJ as a personal diplomat; Most-Favored Nation treatment; East-West Trade

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

in 1962? H: Oh, my goodness, that starts back in 1922 when I joined the Boston National Guard just to learn how to ride a horse because I figured only soldiers and millionaires could ride horses on the weekends. And I ended up forty-two years later

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was involved in. He was then on the House Naval Affairs Committee, studying at the knee of Uncle Carl Vinson, the chairman. At that point I believe he had been out in the Pacific and come back. But [thi s was] my fi rst experi ence of hi s persuas i ve abil

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that meeting out in--I think it was Honolulu in that fall, 1967, and came to some agreement. G: They came to Saigon, too, I think, didn't they, in September? P: Yes, came to Saigon, and then Honolulu, and they also put out a Special National Estimate back

Oral history transcript, William G. Bowdler, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and it lends itself to this type of an experiment. F: Where do you think he got that idea? B: I think that this came from Marks, USIA. F: Leonard Marks. B: Leonard Marks. He had been very active in the Educational TV Committee in Washington. And we went

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

make that very, very clear, and the report of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to which I gather Draper had access, makes it very clear-and so did the dispatches of TadSzulc., who knew what he was doing. changed around the time that Mac Bundy

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

Committee when he died. He was a powerful Congressman, and Lyndon was filling the shoes of a fellow that was really apt. G: Is it correct that he attended Congressman Buchanan’s funeral and then went over to San Marcos to address the student body
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

hundred fifty to seven hundred million in 1967. I got a note back from the President saying, "Joe, shouldn't we set goals, call in the congressional leaders, including the chairmen of committees, and sell one million if possible?" I then write a note

Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

ceremonies of al/ sorts are handled by the Inaugural Committee as opposed to people here at the White House handling it. And since the ceremonies were to be held here, it then became the responsibility of the Entertainments Office to assist with the obtaining

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and this was reasonable. F: Did he know McGeorge Bundy fairly well at that time? R: He knew him because r~r. Johnson was at the Whi te House frequently and of course was a member of the National Security Council. F: So there wasn't a great deal of break

Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

In one of the first national articles about Lyndon, it was Time magazine, his ability to destroy the Black Stars was one of the major things that he talked about in that arti cle . So I think it meant a lot more to him, successfully destroying � LBJ

Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of helping the villagers organize the village and get it going again. This seemed to be making some sense, so we spread it down into the rest of Vietnam in 1965 and 1966 and then set up a national school at Vung Tau at about 1966 or 1967--I've forgotten where

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

should be pointed out. He felt pretty strongly about the control. G: Well, he must have gotten a lot of opposition to this from the Senate. B: Right to bear arms, part of the Constitution, National Rifle Association, sure. We were bombarded

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

elections of Diem, which were in April of 1961, in which he got about 90 per cent of the votes. G: That's fairly usual in that part of the world, isn't it? N: Well, yes. Yes. I think-- But the charge which was leveled--these were United Nations

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

that it wasn't passed on, at least in It's conceivable that he did phone the President; if' he did, the President later expressed complete mystery about it. M: It didn't come in writing to the National Security Council. C: It did not come in writing, because
Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to me. We had been married I forget how long, I think Lyndon was in the NYA [National Youth Administration]. We still always saw a great deal of the people who had been close to us, and L. E. had been Lyndon's secretary, as you know. We were driving down
; the Johnsons' first apartment; LBJ being chosen to head the National Youth Administration (NYA) in Texas; LBJ's relationship with Congressman Richard Kleberg; early married life; snow in Washington, D.C.; Maury and Terrell Maverick; Bill White; Welly Hopkins

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

if they really felt that the war was [wrong] and they wanted to resist the war by writing articles and whatever, that he would defend them when they came back to the United states. He was there at a time when they had a committee--they called it a war crimes

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

or confirmation of an ~as assig::.::ent I had had ever since the early days under President Kennedy. There had been an Interagency Committee for Narcotics. Ken~edy Drug President had convened in probably 1962 a Commission on Narcotics and A~~se. The head

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in its answer to the Seventeen Nations' Declaration. I stated that I could very quickly give him a memorandum that outlined a serious diplomatic possibility that we ought to consider. And he said, "All right, let me have it by the end of the afternoon

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

of the expediency of it, the convenience and the access to it, and the cost. But during my two tours there, it wasn't much of a problem at all, but then later when the national resolve began to falter and Vietnam became an unpopular war and the guys thought they had

Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

basis for a while, which we did. Then when it was deeded to the National Park Service, I worked there a couple of days a week. So now I have gone to work for the Park Service. G: How long did you work with Yolanda? M: I guess about a year, and then I

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

- national Affairs at Princeton on the expropriation of American property in Cuba in 1959. After the election and the inaugural in 1961, Bill and Sarge were very helpful getting me interviews with certain people I needed in the State Department for my

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 2 (II), 3/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

and perhaps you are as well qualified as anybody to answer this. He said that the people \'Jho had put together the incipient Community Action agencies, the Ford Foundation, r,lobilization for Youth, "grey areas" projects, [and] the President's Committee

Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, I don't think. I think he was interested--like when Mrs. Johnson wrote her book, and we started a beautification committee here in Stonewall. So he helped us get that going and make money for it and do things in the community. When we needed a place

Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of military developments. F: And he'd been on the Naval Affairs Committee a long time. M: He'd been on the committee which had an awareness of military helicopter development that were involved in the Pacific Theatre during the latter part of the war. F

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

they had a pacification one, which was the operational end of things. Each one had a French. or an American as chief of it and then the other nationality would De the deputy and then they were split down with membership one each. I was given

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

trips that somewhere--it might have been in the west lobby or in the Black Steer or in the National Press Club--somebody said, "Ye Gods, there's a credibility gap in the White House," and thus was born that phrase. And then it grew. Then everything

Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Histories Folder Title John Stavast Oral History Interview Box Number 1 RestrictionCodes (A) Closed by Executive Order 13526 governing access to national security information. (8) Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document. (C) Closed

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 travel away from Washington, as any national from a Communist country is. But other than th at , they come in a nd cover the briefings and cover the news conferences. One time, when we got special permission for one

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the press by having some space for them at National Cathedral School and then at the various festivals. You know the people who are sponsoring it hope very much that they'll get some attention. F: That's what I'm getting at. You've got two motives here

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that time the war begin to get sour. But I think if the mood of the nation had not deteriorated there that he might well have run. G: Well, if he could have come home in June of 1968 with that coonskin on the wall and said, "The war is over, and we

Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

need for a close-in liaison. Normally, that was done--that all had to be filtered through the National Security Council in the Kennedy period, Mac [McGeorge] Bundy and Brom [Bromley] Smith, his deputy, and then the entire NSC staff, but they were

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

leaders. Now, President Johnson at that time decided to establish this review group, a committee, or whatever you want to call it, wh i ch \·./Qul d be headed by r~r. Cl a rk Cl ifford, who was then the secretary-designate of Defense, and which would

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

as he was before the congressional committees during his tenure, I think that the enemies of the intelligence community would have managed to wreck it even further than it was wrecked at that time. Of course, Colby was roundly criticized by many people

Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Committee for further study, and that was it. F: With no real hope of ever springing it out of there? C: No. F: Did [Stewart] Udall support the idea of a department of natural resources? C: Udall would have loved it, because he would have assumed he

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