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Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

? C: Oh, I don't think there's any question about the fact that justice prevailed in that case. During World War II in the navy before I went overseas I had served with Bob Smith, the 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, failed to show that there had been any previous incidents of homosexuality, including the time during World War II when he was the captain and commander of an all-black company of soldiers. So that pretty much is the whole thing. The incident wrecked his

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

in the china shop, and you're walking through with flowers tied to his horns and hope he gets out without breaking. The two exceptions were William McCormick Blair in Copenhagen and Douglas MacArthur II in Brussels, one a career man, one a political appointee

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

down, left-over World War II antique with grass growing on it and I had the feeling- F: Bad enough at best. C --that our only real direction was a Secret Service man standing up tvith a sock in his hand to show which way the wind was blowing. F

Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the tax cut, including, among other things, attention to the special problems of the people passed over, left out, somehow remaining in Depression-like conditions you might say, even though we'd had this great period of prosperity after World War II. So

Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

-standing acquaintance with a number of the generals with whom he had associated right after World War II and he had married a Vietnamese-French girl, a very charming, intelligent girl incidentally, who greatly improved his own effectiveness because she

Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

" And I said, "No, sir." He said, "Well, I can guess who pretty good." it. did~': It's (Laughter) "Pretty good. Type it up and I'll sign II M: That's the way it went. F: That's the way it went. M: During that several months when the situation

Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

: Was there a correlation or a cause of correlation found at that time between poverty and these deficits that you speak of? S: Yes, certainly not a one-to.one ,correlation, but in proportionate terms, yes. G: You had said that under the Title II Community Action you

Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

is Senator--who's the first one on the roll call?--Aiken or whoever, all the way down. And I would say that it's a remarkable thing, really, that from the very beginning and after, say, ten days or so, he kep t saying, 'tyou' re go ing to los e . II

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the line of, ''When we get in, we wi 11 do this, you're included in the S: Surely. II and you just assume that '~e"? ''When we get in, we've got to move fast on wheat," or, ''We've got to move fast on feed grains and cotton." One simply knows

Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the Rice Hotel, and I called home a little after six in the evening to call my wife, see how she was getting along, and she said, "Oh, have the newspapermen gotten in touch with yoU?" about?" I sa id II No, what Well, she said, "It's something about

Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

at the time of the Green Amendment determination, there was a big fight, there were hearings, and the mayor saying, '~e're going to run it ourselves ,II and the Cormnunity Action agency was fighting. There was revolt. It was one of the more radical

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

/show/loh/oh 18 P: That's true. We didn't have the most modern equipment. We were flying World War II crates around for certain missions, but it turned out that for a particular unsophisticated military environment in South Vietnam, they were just

Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

later came back after the war and continued my education at Georgia Tech. I graduated from Georgia Tech as a bachelor of industrial engineering in September of 1949. M: What did you do during World War II? Y: I was in the Army Air Corps. I started

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to read a hawkish speech, read any speech that Franklin Roosevelt gave during World War II. Good God! You know, the comparison--Lyndon Johnson is like an appeaser compared to him. Like a fifth column Communist. Because Roosevelt was saying, "We're going

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in 1943 in the riot of World War II, which was incidentally much more of a race riot than the riot of 1967, which was what Pat Moynihan would call an untermenschen riot--a real explosion of the ghetto against the ghetto with whites almost a secondary

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, there was another aspect of it, too. One of the things that has never been sufficiently explored is the fact that after World War II it became unfashionable to be an isolationist. Nobody wanted to be an isolationist because the isolationists were associated

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

World War II. In those days he was a liberal. What developed, he could never get out of the House as a liberal. represented a very strange district in southern Illinois. He He himself was from Peoria, and that district was rather liberal

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

sometime shortly after World War II and totally supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. So this is important background, because in supporting internationally some research activity, even on budgets that were rather rigidly controlled initially, one

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

true that there's not enough doctors. I've seen doctors operate thirty-six hours without even sitting down. The ship I was on in WW II, for example, had all these guys killed or wounded on it, and in the place we used to eat breakfast--the officers used

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Shriver -- IV -- 23 G: Since they were coming out of Title II of Community Action, did you have to get approval for Head Start

Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they were U.S. army training manuals of about World War II vintage, translated into Hebrew. I don't know, but I just have to think that since he was at the Department of Defense that his influence--he LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that l'd thought of running for things, but nothing of long, involved conversations where there was advice involved because ii never reached that stage with me, where I was actively after a given job. F: Did he ever talk to you from the other side, as he

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and with World War II coming to an end, you had communities that really didn't have any housing. So while the real estate people were adamant in their opposition to it, they didn't have the clout to totally defeat it. They curtailed it, but not too much. G

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that the flight had been cancelled, and an unidentified plane, from their point of view, came into the air. It was one of the old flying boxcars of World War II, a plane that had been used by the Israelis for reconnaissance purposes; they thought

Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

start and you can stop me if you think I'm not doing it properly . I should say that my interest in politics grew out of World War II, but I won't go into that . political I'm not from a family or anything of this kind, but I have a genuine � LBJ

Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

i n a r y t h i n g s , but he kept hedging and hadn 'tmade any announcement. Well, I got a sign painter t o paint a sign to go o n the outside of the b'.lilding . . . II told him just to hold it u n t i l I gave him the word to put it up. Well

Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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