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Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the somewhat small controversy in April 1966 regarding the appointment of several scholars--some 26 I believe it was-to the Humanities Council, of which one of them was Meredith Wilson. K: Yeh, I know that. M: And I believe that some of the music faculties
  • Biographical information; First meeting with LBJ; first impressions of LBJ; establishment of National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities; effects of Vietnam War; not close to LBJ; controversy over Meredith Wilson; no connection with the White
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1990 INTERVIEWEE: HAROLD C. PACHIOS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Pachios' office, Portland, Maine Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: I think we ought to begin with you telling me how you went to work for the Peace Corps. P: I went
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  • Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
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Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that Mr. Harold Wilson who was the not yet Prime Minister of England but was almost--it was known that he was going to be--had made a speech in Italy in which he said that President Johnson's LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers, we decided that we would make an attempt to negotiate; that we would appoint a delegation from the Commonwealth to get to work with Hanoi. Wilson. This was done on the initiation of Mr. Harold He was Prime Minister then. House
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • by Carl Rowan to Vietnam in March of 1965 along with Harold Johnson, who was then chief of staff. One of the things we recommended out there--and I'm proud to say the director of MACV Psyops, Bowen, and Ralph Boyce of AID and I jointly recommended
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a part of our history and becomes vitally concerned, as does his staff in the office of the president. We talked many times about what happened when Wilson became sick, and where for eighteen or nineteen months Mrs. Wilson and Admiral Grayson tried to run
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • building he did that we looked at was the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton. I also saw another building too. And while they're beautiful and elegant buildings--I don't know if you've ever seen the one at Princeton? F: Yes. H
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in charge to agree to stop in my hometown of Tarboro and pick me up there. I got on the train there and then we stopped in my congressional district in Rocky Mount. She spoke from the platform of the train there, and then we stopped in Wilson, also my
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the Buddhist movement, Thich Tri Quang or any of those people? H: Yes. They were very articulate. Tri Quang was always a kind of mystic. Trying to talk to him was like going to a Harold Pinter play. I don't know if you remember when the Dallas Cowboys
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • dealt frequently with the legislative liaison staff--Henry Hall Wilson, Larry O'Brien, etc. But it was mostly in the context of either what to propose in the way of legislation or how the legislative program itself was going, that I participated. I
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
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • into those kinds of matters again and [was going to] devote myself to my profession until Harold Hughes came along, who was Governor of Iowa, and asked me if I would help direct his campaign for re-election in 1964. Governor Hughes is a magnificent man
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • --Meridith Wilson , Howard Johnson of M.I.T., felt that it was good. But the labor voice was unanimous and vehement, and in view of that the general consensus was that it just wouldn't fly as an idea. It wouldn't get through the Congress
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a contingent. In the recent British election Harold Wilson got a crack off about it. He said that Johnson had asked him to send some help to Vietnam, and was prepared to settle for one bagpiper with the flag. I think ,true; it was cosmetic in that sense
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • up on all the materials. Now the ktter--the draft--had in it a generalized description of phase A-phase B. M: It did have at that point? C: Yes. I was told that I could tell Wilson, but only Wilson, that there was a possibility
  • Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , there was yet another thing going on in November, and that was George Brown's trip to Moscow. When Harriman and I saw Brown when we were in London in early November, post-Manila, Brown said that he was going to Moscow; and he and Wilson made a fair amount
  • Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964
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, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • diplomacy through Wilson to Kosygin . Now, the first was infinitely-­ M: That's the most confusing two-three weeks of the entire period . B: Oh, it's utterly, utterly confusing, but if you keep your eye on dates it gets clearer . Also, it included Baggs
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . I I I didn't see De Gaulle on the visit. I went to London. I I saw, of course, both Prime Minister Wilson and Brown. Then I went to Morocoo at the request of Ambassador Tasca. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • see, we hadn't nominated a man from down in the South in some time, had we, to elect him. B: No, sir. I guess, if you want to stretch a point and call Woodrow Wilson a Southerner, that was probably about the last one. R: But you see he
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Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • didn't have any illusions that I would be successful but Wilson was going to be in Moscow in early February. He was anxious to get some movement toward a conference; as you remember, the British and Russians were co-chairmen of the Geneva conference
  • Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964
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, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • is not politically impossible. It is merely politically more difficult, but it isn't any more difficult than when Woodrow Wilson, a first-term minority President, when the Democratic Party was really a minority in the country, pushed through in two years
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the British economy. This put them under heavy strain and when the Wilson government came into office, they were faced with a very heavy crisis. We had to get up several billion dollars ourselves with our partners to make available to the British to buy up
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and Admiral Dick Byrd, who had been his aide when he was Vice President. Also, that was immediately prior to the Israeli-U.A.R. confrontation, and, as a matter of fact, Prime Minister Wilson was in the White House at the time, LBJ Presidential Library http
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, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for a job in August of 1946. I got here the week that Wilson Wyatt resigned as Administrator of the then Nat ional Hous ing Agency and the Truman housing pl;ogram bJ;'oke up under congressional attack. In some ways it's probably the most fortunate thing
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 2 W: A.B. from Princeton. M: What was that in? W: That was in the School of International Affairs, Public Affairs, the Woodrow Wilson School. And then a Master of Public Administration, which at that time at Harvard was a sort of certificate
Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • would hinge on whether the British did or did not accept the idea . It was an election in Britatin and the Labor government was returned and Wilson came here in December of 64 . Before the President had a series of meetings on the problem
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about the mistakes, let's think of what he did. Usually you have a cycle, and a lot that Woodrow Wilson did was wiped out. But the great thing that you could say about Lyndon is that Lyndon institutionalized the New Deal as a plateau. As I say, he pulled
Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the It was one thing for the French journalists to write what it . they wrote, but it was quite another to have these Americans doing became so I remember in Hanoi one day when Don Wilson of Life magazine exasperated with Captain de Lassuz, who was the French
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Pop Warner [?J, Colonel Warner, the senior adviser in the I ARVN Corps while there, and under Jap Wilson who was senior adviser-G: Is that J-A-P? M: Yes, Jasper Wilson. And in the III Corps he had followed Coalbin Willie Wilson. (Laughter) G
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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 Flott -- II -- 6 G: Was it Jasper Wilson? Does