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Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a member, first, of the President's Air Policy Commission, and then served as a special assistant to Secretary Forrestal before the National Defense Act of 1947 provided for a Deputy Secretary of Defense. I occupied that post as Secretary Forrestal's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the problem. But the guys in MACV were even then, I think,leaning to a very conventional point of view of the war. G: There was a common complaint, I think, heard, that the VC would knock off a local force post and then ambush the relieving force
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . You didn't start out to be a career diplomat . I took the Foreign Service examinations in May of 1936, and I started my first post at Vancouver at the end of December of '36 . F: Did you have any background in Latin America, or did you just sort
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before the coup; an offer to move Diem out of the country to safety; visiting the Presidential palace the day after the coup; flying with the Nhu children to Rome; JFK assassination; post-Diem conditions in Saigon; Georges Perruche; an explosion
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was doing this. was not in the room and quite properly not. I He wanted to have it a meeting among equals or peers, but I was going in and out of the office, and I was sitting at a little desk right outside his office doing my command post function
  • Van Kim; Ton That Dinh; Mai Huu Xuan; David Nes and Mike Dunn; management of the American Embassy in Vietnam; Lodge leaving his post as Ambassador and his political involvement; Flott duties under Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson; Max Taylor; comparing
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • got along fine. B: Do you believe that his choice of personnel was good in cabinet posts and sub-cabinet positions? S: I can't fault him with anybody that I know. his administration were good. competent~ So far as I I think the people that he had
  • ; LBJ’s reputation in the South; LBJ’s strengths and weaknesses; LBJ’s post-presidential activities.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , who is a tax man, and have kept my interest in taxation throughout my professional career. I remained in the Treasury until mid-1953. As I said, the highest post I had was as Assistant Director of the Office of Tax Analysis. I then went
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : You practiced in Chicago? W: Yes. I first became an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago and served there for four years, and then became a Special Assistant Attorney General to prosecute a large mail robbery case in which a post office
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , the welcome back, what was happening out there; getting the Cabinet plane out over Japan back; alerting the bases, the posts overseas. So that really not; I can't say that I could focus on that [Johnson and the Kennedy programs]. As you move along
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the Washington Post? H: No. I have no inside information about what's going on there. I know only what I've read in the daily press, daily newspapers. Obviously, I'm keenly aware of the boat people, because after all, one gets constant letters from
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • paper, in the Post. F: They had this folk opera out there. P: Yes. And two of the most prominent people in connection with it were born in Texarkana. F: I was going to say this Scott Joplin came out of there. P: He was born there. And this black
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • believe it was. Connally, who was then governor, was doing his damnedest to get out of Byers--I'm not certain it was Byers but I think I'm right. The Houston Post? F: I think Byers was with the Chronicle then. I'm not sure. W: Anyway, it was one
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • projects, something like this? N: Yes. Well, there was of course the classic case of Margery Michelmore who dropped the post card in Nigeria which created pandemonium. I was in charge of the decompression of Margery when she got back to the United
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was a Saturday morning that the Washington Post had reported that Jackie's French chef had been let go. The reaction seemed to be, "Here's this guy that eats steak and mashed potatoes, and what does he know about good food?" That offended him greatly, and I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 1958, when I was asked to come back to the Budget Bureau. B: As deputy director? S: Initially as assistant director, then three months later as deputy director. But the deputy post was planned in my coming back. I stayed on in this job after
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of pieces he didn't like, and he expressed himself about it. to the effect, if not directly, "~Jhat He said words you're doing is you're up here, you read The New York Times and The Washington Post, and all of a sudden you think that's the fad. yourself
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /loh/oh Connell -- I -- 8 In the period post-war, 1946-47, the Farmer-Labor Party became perhaps dominated by the communists. Its leadership was essentially taken over by the communists, and in the great Progressive Party effort of 1948 when Henry
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)