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Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 1 (I), 3/9/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • because they were a distraction. I never had any difficulty in making friends with the fair sex as you might call them. I thought that people who say it is good for you to rub elbows with a girl, I'd rather hold her hand. C: At one time there was Dwight
  • to Hawaii; religion at Yale; Von Holt’s knowledge of Hawaiian; Bunker family history; Ellsworth Bunker’s personality; Von Holt’s involvement with the University and Pacific Clubs; military service; Dwight Eisenhower; George Patton; VonHolt family ranches
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • because they were a distraction. I never had any difficulty in making friends with the fair sex as you might call them. I thought that people who say it is good for you to rub elbows with a girl, I'd rather hold her hand. C: At one time there was Dwight
  • to Hawaii; religion at Yale; Von Holt’s knowledge of Hawaiian; Bunker family history; Ellsworth Bunker’s personality; Von Holt’s involvement with the University and Pacific Clubs; military service; Dwight Eisenhower; George Patton; VonHolt family ranches
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 3 (III), 3/11/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • because they were a distraction. I never had any difficulty in making friends with the fair sex as you might call them. I thought that people who say it is good for you to rub elbows with a girl, I'd rather hold her hand. C: At one time there was Dwight
  • to Hawaii; religion at Yale; Von Holt’s knowledge of Hawaiian; Bunker family history; Ellsworth Bunker’s personality; Von Holt’s involvement with the University and Pacific Clubs; military service; Dwight Eisenhower; George Patton; VonHolt family ranches
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • because they were a distraction. I never had any difficulty in making friends with the fair sex as you might call them. I thought that people who say it is good for you to rub elbows with a girl, I'd rather hold her hand. C: At one time there was Dwight
  • to Hawaii; religion at Yale; Von Holt’s knowledge of Hawaiian; Bunker family history; Ellsworth Bunker’s personality; Von Holt’s involvement with the University and Pacific Clubs; military service; Dwight Eisenhower; George Patton; VonHolt family ranches
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • office, only two presidents who have survived the two full terms that they are now limited to by the Constitution, and walked out of that office with-- LC: Grace? DC: With grace, right. And those two were Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan. LC
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)
  • real recommen­ dation of the Administration was really when President Eisenhower told Presidc:nt Kennedy he felt the first action we would have to take would be in that area -- Laos, and Viet-Nam -- and that he would have taken it ex.ct!pt th,":lt he
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh LBJ Retrospective -- 24 sought President Eisenhower's advice all the time. He kept him informed; he had him briefed constantly by the top people. So when he talked to Eisenhower, Eisenhower would know where he was coming from, would
Oral history transcript, Billy Graham, interview 1 (I), 10/12/1983, by Monroe Billington (Item)
  • , and I also gave all the main addresses during the Kennedy presidency and during the Eisenhower period except two. I quit when Nixon became president because he had asked me to lead the inauguration prayer as well as preach the first service at the White
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • are going to stay with it, and why we're going to stay with it. And he formulates it his way, which is at least a distance from where he has been; he had been saying there's no change in policy. And then he gets needled by Eisenhower's people. He doesn't
Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963 (Item)
  • anything else. I got it from the Nevi York Ti!'l~.5-. of yours this morning. I've never seen But that's the way Eisenhower took Part Three and Russell just ran him out of the White House balcony, because said, they slip nr never heard of it, didn't
Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • . So I was fortunate that I worked for Jim Hagerty·. ·Hagerty had been Eisenhower's press secretary and had gone to ABC for news and was the top man. ··as the vice president So, I called Jim and I 'said, "What do I do?" He said, "You don.'t have any
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • never a question of doing what's right. It's a question of knowing what's right. Those first few days Vietnam was on top of the agenda, before the visiting heads of state got home from the funeral. In the outer office of the EOB I saw Eisenhower sitting
Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie (Item)