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Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • period? J: Well, I would say that the best reporting of the Vietnam situation has been by guys 1i.ke Bob Shaplen of the New Yorker; Sol Sanders, U.S. News and World Report; Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News-- M: You did get one newspaper
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was living in Japan, Dien and I began to hear and read about this place called and so I went down there for the Chicago Daily News what turned out to be the end of to the Viet Minh Dien Bien Phu fell Accords . it . and at the time of the Geneva
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that--particularly thought of serving at the UN. that I wasn't interested in the UN Not but I was doubtful if I could afford to live in New York at the United Nations, because it's a very expensive post. Probably, if I had realized how expensive I couldn't have
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there was not a strong and yet poorly articulated commitment. During the first many months of his Administration Johnson did nothing either very new or very definitive to try to reduce or indeed to increase our involvement. It was basically, from his point of view I
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 F: A lot of the time, and, therefore, while I saw him when he came to Paris and did occasionally see him here in New York, it wasn't anything like as close as during the time we were both
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • as it was functioning, and consequently we proposed in 1967 that there be a significant change in the law to give it a different kind of a complexion. We had our last meeting in December of '67, which was the same month that we got our new amendments. I took
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Daily News, Keyes Beech, who had heard of the thing and wanted to go. In the meantime I think there was also a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- II -- 3 tax but certainly it was some time in the latter part of increase~ 1965. The tax increase discussion was given a new urgency in December, when
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at Harvard. Then I got caught up in the U. S. Army during World War II and had about four years of that, including a long siege of combat in Europe. When I came back from the army, I went to the Charlotte News as editor and stayed there about a year
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the President's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who has just started this new thing called the Peace Corps." had read about it. do." He said, "Do you want a job?" I said I I said, "I think I So he wrote on a piece of paper in his notebook the name "Bill
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • not before Congress as a platform for the Democratic party in '56 and again in '60. Most of the time I was governor of New York--a considerable part of the time I was. Then afterwards I still remained as a member because we were very much concerned
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with whatever U. N. facilities, translators and so forth, which could be made available. And that, as I understand it, is the essence of what U Thant told Stevenson. Stevenson apparently did not write any of this down, and subsequently when I went up to New
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • news organizations, to my recollection, had staff correspondents based in Saigon, I think except for the news agencies. correspondent. The New York Times had a visiting Usually it was a person from Hong Kong who came down just the way I did. LBJ
  • into the South; Abe Fortas; reporters and public opinion on the war; the effect of the news media; evaluation of other reporters in Vietnam; American generals in Vietnam; locations and dates of his field reporting; covering the Communist side of the war; books
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that ran the paper at that time were not pro-Johnson . I had a friend who was editor, but he died and a new regime came in over there in 1939 or 1940 and they didn't like Johnson's politics very much . G: On the other hand, I guess Mr . [Charles] Marsh
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROGER HILSMAN INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Hilsman's office at Columbia University, New York Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. your last official You're Roger Hilsman, and position with the government
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Sisco -- I -- 7 S: That's the warm-up period. And what happened was this-- this is new, this is not known, and theref ore, would be of intere st: Arthur Goldberg at that time felt very strong ly that the matter should
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and 20, 1977 INTERVIEWEE: Mrs. Jane Englehard INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Engelhard's home, Cragwood, Far Hills, New Jersey Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your parents, first of all. Your father was a Brazil- ian diplomat. E
  • to the United States and involvement in the microfilm business; New York Governor Alfred Smith; a plane crashing into the Empire State Building; marrying Charles Engelhard; Engelhard’s political career; Engelhard’s involvement in the gold business; race
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , because of your background, is with the method by which people of your type were recruited into the government. T: You were with Standard Oil--is that correct? That's correct. I was operating in the Caribbean area with Standard Oil Company of New
  • into the Department of Economic Affairs; Labor was 95% against the new Department; Labor-Management Advisory Committee studies merger and proposed that it not be done; personal contact with the President; White House staff; Cabinet meetings were basically
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • as a change of policy . That we were doing what was necessary, that was the policy ; that this was just a couple of new things we were doing, but it wasn't a change of policy . effect, to mute the whole thing . him into that . He wanted, in I don't know
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the Polish thing was about to mature . examination, lots of things . Well, I don't myself This is a matter of a refined Among other things, it is the fact that on the thirteenth and before news of the bombing in the Hanoi area on that date, Rapacki had
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • publications, I did become fascinated with this issue: how close can these two so different countries be? They have the same ideology and then, as you recall, the political belief was very firmly held that there was a new bloc, a new axis, that was tightly
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , that may have gone up from 5,000 people at the time of the census to 50,000 people five years later, if they can get a capitation arrangement on rebate of money from the state with a new figure, of course they want to take it. I think it's fair to say
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • thing on the question that the office sent on the problems of HEW, I have noticed that's in the news again. I believe even your predecessor Mr. Ribicoff said it should be dismembered when he left the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the Sheep Meadow, was in the bandstand, the platform from which the speeches were made, and I heard a reporter for a major New York paper, the New York Daily News, call in, and I may not have the figures exactly right, but I think I even have the figures
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for John Kennedy, I thought Bob Kennedy a little shit. w~s We had almost had a couple of fist fights in the course of ten years, one being in 1960 when I wrote an article in the New Republic before the election saying, "Everybody's sitting around passing
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the Kennedy Administration to have any Admin~tration. contact with Mr. Johnson back in your news career or in private career? D: Only vaguely in my news career. However, in 1955 and 1956, I was on Capitol Hill associated with Senator Estes Kefauver
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • one, was quite conservative. paper~ I Jim Free of Birmingham, I think, as southerners go, is quite liberal; certainly more so than the . Birmingham paper. I was. Bruce Jolly, of the Greensboro Daily News, at that time, was I thought more liberal
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ranging from six to seven o'clock. could make the very early morning shows here. They used The wire services And even the dailies, the specials, the New York Times or the Washington Post, could make a late edition, you .see. And every other period
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • had been good. But this was the first time that Lyndon Johnson as President saw how the Council of Economic Advisers could perform. From that very moment on, he would expect to be kept up-to-date--to get these daily memos. This is the way the New
  • Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the President and yourself? Gu: Colonel Cross said, as I recall, I~r. President, this is a new man that I've brought in to be my administrative assistant. He's a Marine." The President said,"I understand from Cross that you can walk on water and replace
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh opponents in an election for president. F: Yes. H: But not in the daily routine--well, not routine
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • into the retirement program . So, if you do it the way I provided for suggest, you will automatically get the new programs when 2 1/2 million federal employees, and you will not become a target each time improvements that you're bound to want come along ." Mr
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • all out because I never spent that much time in the White House. He was very fond of about my closest friend in Washington, Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News. I think probably, and I hope to goodness somebody does him. M: He's on our list
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Washington in May of 1942 from Pennsylvania, \"here I had been state m,anager of International News Service. ing to get back to being a reporter, I managed ~~ant­ to get transferred out of the administrative and back into the reporting business
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • three or four days. we got a draft polished up the way he liked it. on back. And finally He said, "Fine." I went Then he said he wanted to send me copies of it, and it came back from the Attorney General with some more changes, and I fought some
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /oh or maybe it was Bowdoin [College] up in New England, and had had one summer as a copy boy at the New York Times and so on. He was a very active, very energetic Vietnamese whose family or wife ran a big English school. He understood the press
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ; with the new plant and equipment 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 SCHULTZE
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
  • and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • predicted my appointment in the spring, I think it was, and I, therefore, concluded I was safe. M: Did you know anything about it at that time? R: No, I knew nothing about it at that time. M: How was the news broached to you? In what manner did Mr
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID HALBERSTAM INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Halberstam's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 2 G: You said that you had a Lyndon Johnson story. H: Yes. I was, in 1960, working for the Nashville Tennessean