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  • and turned on the television set." ' Martin Blumenson, a widely respected military historian who has spoken at the Library several times, returned, this time to discuss "The Problems of Berlin in World War 11." That problem, from an American point of view
  • the coalit1un and he ,l',sumcd that e\'erybod:, ebe w 1s de~ptte uutv.ard difference,. I bdic\.e thar the outi:omc vmd1cated hi', 1udgmcnt. I th-nk hat (the i:-.su1:of! Berlin c01m:~ duwn 111 1, thdl there h thi, [period - h.:• ,ay about four or five weeks
  • [Hubert] Humphrey, Senator [John] Kennedy announces his candidacy, and then on the Republican side, Vice President [Richard] Nixon announced his. Still no personal activity on the President's part, and you weren't aware of anything at this early stage
  • ; Pat Nixon; Marvin Watson; visiting Acapulco and Mexican President Miguel Aleman and his family; LBJ's relationship with Senator Richard Russell; Sam Houston Johnson's hospitalization for alcoholism; a Johnson family history of alcoholism and depression
  • becausetheir cul­ tures and political systems had so lit­ tle in common, neither really under­ stood the other. Misunderstandings and confrontations thus were fre­ quent: Suez, Lebanon. Berlin, Laos­ and Cuba. A mythology has developed about the 1962 missile
  • Cover: "Funeral Pyres." Artist: W. G. Laurence; U.S. Coast Guard Art Program 2 High SchoolTeachersStudyThe U.S. Congress Senate Historian Richard Baker speculates on "What the framers [of the Constitution] would recognize and what would surprise them
  • in 1921, when I was six years old. We lived at first in Lithuania, then in Germany, then in Latvia, which then was independent--Latvia, in Riga, from 1925 to 1930. In 1930 we came back to Germany, and I graduated from high school in Berlin in 1934
  • , Oxford University Richard W. Bolling Former United States Representative Fifth District, Missouri Lecturer and Author Thomas E. Cronin McHugh Professor of American Institutions and Leadership The Colorado College Catherine Hancock Associate Professor
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 defeated Senator Bill Knowland, who was then the Minority Leader in the Senate, the first time, and defeated Richard Nixon, who had defeated
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960 campaign; Cheryl Chessman case; National Advisory Committee; Democratic candidates; 1962 campaign against Richard Nixon; Cuban crisis; Rumford Housing bill; Jess Unruh; Western Governors
  • would have too much sense to stick his neck out that way. G: Okay. Let me ask you to talk about the Berlin trip. R: Okay. Oh, I see where Tschursin comes in; that's Diana. Yes, what do you want to know about Berlin? G: Well, you've got-- R
  • LBJ's and Reedy's assessment of Senator John Tower from Texas; Pakistan President Ayub Khan’s personality; LBJ's vice presidential trips to Berlin, to Sweden for Dag Hammarskjold's funeral, and to Paris; LBJ's lack of familiarity with other
  • for all of us." Memories of a Royal ·visit By Harry Middleton, LBJ Lihrary and Mmeum Direcl/lr, E111erit11.1· Queen Elizabeth'sGoldenJubileecal.led to mind her trip to Austin in May, 1991. Governor Ann Richards was host­ ess to Lbe royal visit. She
  • : Yarborough never was really part of the southern group. B: No. Well, neither he nor Johnson joined the southern caucus. Johnson and Senator [Richard] Russell of Georgia, of course, worked hand in glove on everything. They were very close to each other
  • ; Texas delegation luncheons; "Rayburn Board of Education;" JFK-LBJ relationship in Senate; 1960 Democratic convention strategies and LBJ's nomination for vice presidency; LBJ's Berlin visit as vice president; visits to LBJ ranch; LBJ's frustrations
  • on foreign affairs in 1961, didn't you--the Berlin speech, for example? R: The Berlin speech--that, of course, was approved by the President and the Secretary of State. That was an amusing story. Mac [McGeorge] Bundy and I in that first year split
  • First impressions of LBJ; JFK and LBJ; JFK and the White House staff; LBJ as VP; LBJ on foreign aid; LBJ Berlin speech, 1961; LBJ on foreign policy pre-presidency; LBJ’s first State of the Union message; Vietnam; CIAP; Latin America; White House
  • and Ed Weisl and Dick Berlin? I think this is right after they first bought the station. I think he was probably trying to get CBS affiliation is what it looks like. R: Well, when you mention Bill Paley, but then Dick Berlin, wasn't he head of-- G
  • Mansfield was never away that much. Johnson was like--again, to use a musical analogy--a [Herbert] Von Karajan. He flies into Berlin. He spends three weeks whipping the orchestra into frantic shape. They put on four spectacular nights of Beethoven and Wagner
  • warned of tragedy. In mid1964 Senator Richard Russell or Georgia told LBJ that Vietnam wa. ·'the damned worst mes. J ever . aw, and I don't like to brag." And LBJ responded glumly, "I've been think­ ing that way for the past six months." An occasional
  • . [That] would be one of the first ones. Z: I guess the German crisis was the first thing. M: The Berlin . . . . ? Z: The Berlin crisis was first, in the fall of 1961. Cuba was 1962. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • President had to go. F: Any particular reason why? S· There -was a great crisis, and he wanted to send the Vice President to show the American commitment to West Berlin. F: Was he satisf'ed with the result? S: Well, the whole trip was symbolic
  • Meeting LBJ; the relationship between LBJ and JFK; the 1960 campaign; LBJ’s role as Vice-President; LBJ’s Berlin trip in 1961; tension between LBJ and RFK; the Committee for Equal Employment Opportunities; why JFK went to Texas in November 1963
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD M. SCAMMON (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: STEVE GOODELL More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Scammon, Richard M. (Richard Montgomery), 1915-2001
  • Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • Richard M. Scammon
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Theis -- I -- 2 was about to leave he put his arm around my shoulder--we scarcely knew each other--and he said, "Bill, I spent the weekend up in New York with Dick Berlin." Well, Dick Berlin at that time
  • Biographical information; first contact with LBJ; LBJ's legislative talents; generosity; LBJ's support of Diem; 1961 Vietnam trip; India stop; camel driver incident in Pakistan; LBJ's relationship with Richard Russell; LBJ's relationship
  • [NAID 24617781] O'Brien -- Interview III -- 7 Richard Russell. Let me ask you to describe President Kennedy's relationship with him. I'm talking about during this early period, before the civil rights [legislation]. O: Yes. Well, Russell was a giant
  • of congressional staffers; Vinson's importance in Congress; John McCormack's relationship with senior southern Democrats; the effect of putting a Lockheed plant in Georgia on Vinson's support for JFK; Richard Russell; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's (LBJ) role
  • Richard Nixon was in Congress and one Richard Nixon was about to suddenly steal this away LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • ; it would be interesting to know what [Jack] Valenti and [Richard] Goodwin--Goodwin doesn't have a whole lot of truth in him but he's bright as hell. D: McPherson? B: Harry would have the most thoughtful view. My experience with him was very much trial
  • inter­ viewed Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in all the world's capitals-Paris, Rome, New York, Hollywood, London, and Leningrad. I had been the only journalist at "I'm just as amazed as you are that all of this happened to little Mary Elizabeth
  • in American history. Luck and accident, Poor Richard notwithstanding. The greatest accident in American history, Brands argued, occurred on January 24, 1848, when "on the middle fork of the American River, in the foot­ hills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains
  • advance exploration. But for some reason he just cut himself off from almost everybody that could have given him any decent advice on it. G: [Richard] Russell referred to this tactic as procedure in the Senate. 11 a lynching of orderly 11 R: Right
  • into areas which were covered by our treaty commitments elsewhere. To give one or two examples, in June 1961 Chairman Khrushchev produced a crisis on Berlin in his meeting with President 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • . We had just won the Cold War. Communism had collapsed. The Berlin Wall came down. We were the only remaining superpow r; everybody want- ed to get close to the Unit d States. There were only four or five countries that didn't like us .... The Soviet
  • was the side gunner; William Fletcher was the top gunner; Mario Sanna was the belly gunner; and Richard Wright was the side gunner. the crew. We had ten people on Quickly, there developed a tremendous, fine personal rela- tionship amongst these people
  • members of Congress that year who were closest to Roosevelt were himself in Texas and Jerry Voorhis from California. Well, he was closer to Roosevelt by a long shot than Jerry Voorhis. Jerry Voorhis was beaten by Richard Nixon. He was the proponent of co
  • the Senate but not the House. So naturally the Democrats did not have as much authority as the Republicans did. Senator [Leverett] Saltonstall of Massachusetts was chairman. Richard Russell, Dick Russell as everybody called him, was the ranking Democrat
  • and a possible future president. F: We're moving ahead. H: Yes. F: But did he ever express himself on Richard Nixon vis-à-vis Johnson? H: You mean as being elected president? F: Yes. H: No, not that I can recall. If he did, it was, "If Dick
  • . [Richard] Kleberg and having met just about everybody in the Fourteenth Congressional District, and because of the U.S. Naval Training Station--I think that was approximately the name of it--which he had helped get placed and kept there. In fact, I think he
  • lived at Floresville, Texas. At that time he was secretary to Congressman Richard M. Kleberg. F: You were in his district. C: Yes. So he came to Floresville, the Congressman did, and Mr. Johnson did from time to time. My daddy was quite active
  • ? W: Certainly. He made all these trips to Vietnam, Pakistan and Europe and the Berlin Wall. There isn't any doubt about it. I think it lifted him clear out of his strictly state character and made a national figure out of him. It's hard
  • or not . But, for instance, when I'd been up there two or three weeks--we'd been to Berlin and back--finally one day he said � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • in which Eisenhower was elected. Then along in about December was when it really began to jell. Lyndon himself hadn't decided at the time and hadn't taken any--he was there to see who was going to be the Democratic leader. He had urged [Richard] Russell
  • , but when the executive producer, Richard Ellison, and I started thinking about that, nobody seemed to be interested in the subject. And we had great trouble getting money for our series, because of this lack of interest and because I guess in the eyes