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Oral history transcript, Charles Fitz Baird, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

it was on Navy Day in 1966, when Senator Robert Kennedy was out in California doing some campaigning for the Democratic ticket out there, and I was in Long Beach then and Assistant Secretary of the Navy, not a very important post in Washington, But I had gone

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

graduated from Harvard in 1961, and free-lanced for a while--traveled for a year and then free-lanced writing a book about the travels- then went into the Marine Corps for a brief period, came out and rewrote the book, worked for the Washington Post

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 10/30/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to stay on guard at all times? K: I think the times of greatest importance were in the immediate post-1963 period. I think these were periods of difficulty. Robert Kennedy appreciated the support President Johnson gave him in the 1964 campaign
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. It was just a conversation about what the impact of this would be in the totality of the campaign. But it was difficult to sort of see at that time. F: Moving on, when you offered yourself for the post of majority whip, did you ever discuss the possibility
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: Did Morse feel that he was politically vulnerable in accepting this post and did he resist the President's-- C: He agreed during that phone conversation. I don't know how long that phone conversation lasted. He tried to get--I don't know when
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with employment discrimination. We looked, I believe, at requiring--military installations maybe even had an order issued saying that you couldn't advertise your rooming house or your rooms on the post, on the military installation, unless you agreed to say anyone
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Union stuff, these stories? B: I'll check. C: Because they're important stories. This is the [Washington] Post, I guess: "There with an agenda rivaling the original Great Society program in scope, President Johnson last night laid before Congress
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that "White House staff," quote, unquote, were interfering with the conduct of his office by making suggestions to him of one sort or another which he resented. G: These were like where to build the post office or jobs or--? O: Some of that, but even
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to Abe. So we spent time with the Star, we then went to the News, we then went to the Post; and our position was that the printing of a story without knowing the facts could destroy this man and his family, and he has been a loyal worker for twenty-five
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to the neighborhood. The Post Office Department 13 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] was one of the very first to do something about it. More on LBJ Library oral
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

followed after in her tradition of contribution to the country. It was on that occasion that the President announced the appointment of 10 women to high level government posts. My appointment to direct the Women's Bureau wa s among them. M

Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the morning [Washington] Post and there was an article saying that Glen Wilson and Eilene Galloway have been appointed by Lyndon Johnson to new space jobs. I was appointed a special consult- ant, and Glen was appointed a coordinator of information
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and I'm going back to the Post Office Department." And I stayed on. Will and I were doing just about all the writing over there for a period of four or five months till Bob Kintner came along and started expanding the staff while we were there. F: How
Biographical information; John Gronouski 1964, Post Master General, called Hardesty to be speech writer; Jack Valenti chief editor; first session, 89th Congress; LBJ and production of bill signing: two or three a day; Indian affairs speech; Bob
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

been director of the I & R [Intelligence and Research] from the beginning of the Kennedy Administration until 1963? H: Right. M: So you served about a year in the Far East post. H: Just a little over. M: Did you know Mr. Johnson at all prior
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. At meetings we recommended to Marshal Sarit--we thought that the thing he could do best--they had some isolated posts along the bank of the Mekong, sort of border posts. assumed greater importance. But now they We suggested that he put together a regiment
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the press, including a cartoon that appeared in the Post on November 28 where the cartoonist depicted Mr. Macy as really a representative in a casting office looking for talent. I proceeded to organize the personnel function. months. This took a couple
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as a correspondent in January of 1930 and was a correspondent for our three Texas papers-lIm sorry to say we only have one now--a paper in homa~ and two in Tennessee. G: The three Texas papers were? M: We had the Houston Herald-Post. Press~ Alabama
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

naivete I thought, flak you have to go through." '~ell, this is just a little But he told me the Sunday night before he left office when the bulldog edition of the Washington Post came out with a particularly gory story in it, he said, "Now, I'll tell
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and down the street notified. · Third, I would send out a penny post .aard to all ·of .the poll tax holders i.n that whole area . . . . . ··and invite them to come•.' in at a certain hour at a certain time.· Fourth, I would have the RA he came
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, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

jumped the party, I've never gotten a thing for it ." That's what he said . "And Jamie Whitten, who went Republican in his district got a big"--I don't know if it was a post office, I forget what it was . Abernethy said, "We're using an antiquated
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

ransomed from the Bay of Pigs--well, I also saw Bobby occasionally during the post-Bay of Pigs Cuban assessment which I worked on for Vance. This was really post-Bay of Pigs, I think. No, we're talking about early 1962, and when Vance was secretary
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)

if they were going to bear fruit. G: A while ago you mentioned the fact the foreign officer follows his government's instructions and is not a politician. During the time when you represented the Goulart government abroad, you were posted in Moscow
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Knowlton -- I -- 2 So, in 1964, I came into the office of the secretary general staff of the army heading the strategy and policy division, which was kind of a deep-think tank for the chief of staff. While I was in that post
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, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was not a leader in foreign affairs. It is important to remember that, although he almost always supported post-war administration programs, I do not remember his discussing foreign policy very often. I do remember how proudly he talked about his support
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, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

beyond just those that were related to the presidency, particularly in the area of Mrs. Johnson's work with the beautification program. B: In 1966 you were offered one of the posts of commissioners on the old D.C. Commission, that is, before
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, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was the head of the Post-Newsweek stations--so that he might counsel with us. But it was a very small group, and if I decided that we ought to have both networks or three networks, we would do that as long as I had the money to pay for it. F: On something like
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, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

come in and .out of that particular room. Mr. Wild was up in 1602. F: f NoH as a co-ngressman he rated an office here in Austin, I presume in the Post Office Building. 15 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was not in session. The minute Congress adjourned you started packing and went home. I used to say dark didn't catch us in Washington on the day that Congress adjourned. His goal was to visit every post office and almost every country store. That is, any community
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

even though he didn't have opposition. J: Oh, absolutely. Going to every post office was a lifelong, rather a twelve-year long, aim and reality, I think, in his twelve years in the House. G: One of his friends remembered that he, in a non-election
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: Was he trying to lure Morse away from the Republicans? J: I do not think so. Oh, no, he was too much of a prickly subject. (Laughter) On the national scene, an interesting development was that Mrs. Hobby's post, Federal Security, was finally
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

know, a lot of people who were, I guess mostly opposed to Kennedy, kept telling him not to do it, the leadership position in the Senate was a much more important post and so on. But that certainly wasn't universal.Most people that I talked to before I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. And then all the frustration of the Paris peace talks. Well, I'm jumping a little bit ahead of myself here because I'm getting into post-election and all the last minute negotiating that went on. In July he went off to meet with President [Nguyen Van] Thieu
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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