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Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • flags, and he had gotten nowhere wfth the British. At one point I said to him, "Why do you ask me? You've talked to Wilson and Denis Healy and the Foreign Secretaryo asked them to send troops. 11 You've undoubtedly What sort of response do you get
Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • wrote one to Wilson Anyhow, this was the letter that in effect told us to get out, get out of France. He was getting rid of NATO in France, the NATO thing, and he wanted our forces out--which incidentally happened to be a violation of some bilateral
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of his own party who didn't want him to run and so on and so on. Wilson went through hell when he was trying to establish a sensible world order after World War L Roosevelt went through severe criticism. Harry Truman was going to be impeached
Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • would say that the really important visits were the visits in which he would be alone with heads of government like Kiesinger or Wilson and a couple of the others. I do recall that even on those visits when he came out and the two heads of government
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and there are all kinds of stories as to whether we knew that one was coming or not. J: We did. I wish I had a chronology with me. I'm trying--oh, Jap [Jasper] Wilson was Khanh's friend and confidante, and Jap Wilson, in the best tradition of what an army officer
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was this? V: Wilson McCarthy. F: Did Walter stay in the White House and do the kind of staff running? V: Walter was running the White House, he was literally overall everything. He became really the President's alter ego in handling the administration