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Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DAVID DUBINSKY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Dubinsky's office, 201 West 52nd Street, New York City Tape 1 of 1 (Interview begins abruptly.) M: . . . Roosevelt. D: Hoover--Republicans too. M: Oh, Republicans too, yes! D
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  • Dubinsky, David, 1892-1982
  • Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • David Dubinsky
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID G. NES INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Nes' home, Owings Mills, Maryland Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Nes, may we begin by simply saying that the account in David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest of your assignment
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  • Nes, David G. (David Gulick), 1917-
  • Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger
  • David G. Nes
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1970 INTERVIEWEE: PALMER HOYT INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Hoyt's office at the Denver Post Building in Denver, Colorado Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Mr. Palmer Hoyt, the editor and publisher of the Denver Post. I might start
  • Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: BEN BARNES INTERVIE\~ER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Lieutenant Governor's Office, Texas State Capitol, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes. June 28, 1971. The date is I'm in the Lieutenant
  • Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in 158. effective relationship with President Eisenhower. . ~ He had a very And then David Bell, Kermit Gordon, Charlie Schultze and I worked with, and I think had quite effective relationships with President Kennedy and President Johnson. The answer
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : March 20, 1969 INTERVIEWEE : ARTHUR M . OKUN INTERVIEWER : DAVID McCOMB Tape 1_ of' 1 M: This is an interview with Dr . Afthur M. Okun, who is the former Chatsman of the Council of Economic Advisers . Institution in Washington, D .C . I am in his
  • Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with him. The success of the Eisenhower relationship with Congress in foreign policy I always felt depended to a large degree on two things: One, the enormous confidence and respect Dulles had--that they had for Dulles up there. They felt Secretary
  • Contacts with LBJ; success of Eisenhower relationship with Congress in foreign policy; personal contact between Secretary Dulles and LBJ; AID bill; estimation of LBJ; formidable experience of talking to LBJ; Macomber never brought good news
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTER VIEWEE: A. WILLIS ROBER TSON INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ) INTERVIEWEE : ALAN S . INTERVIEWER : DAVID G . McCOMB November 20, 1968, Room 812, Department of Transportation Building, Washington, D . C . M: I had better start off by identifying the tape so, know who's talking . in case it's lost, we'll
  • Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • thing--he may be going to Camp David on the weekend, or he may be going boating. So we might call the garage and ask them if they've got any orders down there to pick up house guests or if they've got any orders to bring people to the South Lawn
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • rather quiet days during the Eisenhower Administration. making speeches throughout the COtmtry. He hadn't been out too much His campaign for the nomination LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a historical question, it started with the Eisenhower Administration. And I think that we had been engaged in supporting a colonial war by the French in Indo-China, and that there was no reason at all in terms of any obligations of the United States that we
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --Senator Johnson go? M: In the fall of 1955, I was playing golf one day, on a Sunday. Governor Stevenson called me off the golf course [and] said that President Eisenhower had had a heart attack, and the press was LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . charge. type. Larry [O'Brien] was in I was his deputy and sort of a deputy-administrative assistant We had Henry Wilson who worked the southern states [in the House]; while Mike Manatos handled the Senate, David Bunn handled the eastern states and Irv
  • Set-up of White House Congressional liaison office; handling of Congressional mail; comparison of Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ liaison offices; procedure; leadership agenda; guest lists; bill signings; meetings with agency liaisons; intervention of Larry
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT C. WOOD INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. Mc COMB More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: DR. WILLIAM H. STEWART (Tape 4Fl) INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Durbrow -- I -- 5 only maybe come into it later, I'll bring it up now, though. You probably have seen the Pentagon Papers or somewhere else or [David] Halberstam's book [The Best and the Brightest
  • office; Can Loa Party; David Halberstam; Mrs. Nhu; Diem and interpreters; reaction to the coup; reflections on Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: Eugene M. Locke INTERVIEWER: David G. McComb DATE: May 16, 1969 M: This is an interview with Mr
  • Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • down in the course of it. He attempted to serve as an intermediary between the Eisenhower Administration and [Orval] Faubus. I suspect that he was in touch with Lyndon, a kind of a tactical matter during some of that time. F: I haven't interviewed
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that in '56? H: I don't know. I never talked to him about that. But he might have felt that Dwight David Eisenhower being the great war hero that he was, that perhaps he'd be wise to wait a little bit. He may have thought that, I don't know. B
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with him when we first came onboard here at the end of September, I guess, or the beginning of October of '66, he took all the new boys to Camp David, and the old boys. We spent a weekend there going over a lot of business and getting acquainted. NPT
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: ENDICOTT PEABODY (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: DAVID Mc COMB More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: WALTER HELLER INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Dr. Heller's office, the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Tape 1 of 3 M: To start off with sort of a problem about the mechanics of government. Were you
  • Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on up through the Eisenhower Administration. national estimates business. Estimates. F: I was one of the charter members of the We wrote the National Intelligence I wrote some of the first estimates on the Soviet threat. I might add we got Richard
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • advisory posts prior to your involvement in the Johnson Administration. You were on the Regional War Labor Boards during the war and then you were on Eisenhower's Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • Committee, not supporting either the AFL-CIO bill or the Teamster's bill or the Eisenhower bill. The Teamsters and the Machinists very much opposed my re-election in any year after that. K: Because you had organized his--I don't know if organized
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in September 1963. I well remember when President Kennedy completed his briefing with former President Eisenhower before he took over the White House, President Eisenhower concentrated on the Laos crisis and never mentioned Vietnam when he reviewed the various
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Johnson, and I think to most of us at that point it had become clear that Bobby had it in mind to challenge Johnson for the nomination in 1968. I remember up at Camp David at some point, maybe late 1962 or maybe the spring of 1963, again we were swimming
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • through the state, and in a city, I believe it was Dallas, we held a rally, and Senator Johnson read a letter from General Eisenhower, then President, to a prominent Texas Republican, and after the rally was over, I walked up to Senator Johnson and I said
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Washington about the importance of Vietnam~ and they were beginning-prior to that, they had pretty much run stories that were critical, and did afterwards, too, from time to time. But gradually in the latter days, the last days of the Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • department. The communications system that's exten- sive and so forth, that's the military aide's department. The air- planes and the helicopters and Camp David, the--well, that's essentially it. The automobiles, the army runs that garage and so forth
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ran into Dr. [George] Burkley, who was President Kennedy's private physician, and he was getting into his car. He'd gotten cut off from the President, too. you give me a ride?" I said, "Will I had known him for years, since Eisenhower days; he'd
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • there was no woman on it. And of course this comment has been made with respect to the Nixon Administration. I'm not quite as critical as most people because on this issue nobody has done very well since President Eisenhower with Mrs. Hobby who, if you recall
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a popular President Eisenhower, as far as philosophy and programs were concerned, vast numbers were also voting for Democratic alternatives as proposed by Adlai Stevenson. the party felt this way. At least the northern liberal wing of There was a very
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • David Bell was going to be on the platform introducing him-strongly attacking the President's Vietnam policy. You have to remember, Kennedy at that point had not attacked, previously attacked us. I called Marvin at the White House--this was at about
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Johnson before you came into the White House? H: No, sir, I didn't run into him until I came down to Washington with President Eisenhower, which would have been in January of 1953. F: Right. How soon did you become aware of him? Do you have any clear
  • Staff officer of Eisenhower; treated as family by Ike; met LBJ in 1953; became LBJ’s close friend, politically and socially; Tidelands Bill; foreign aid; Ike got 83% of legislation through Congress; good political leader; knew intimately government