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Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; you've been Collector of Internal Revenue, and if a Democrat is elected, you might be in the position for appointment to ---elected as President in 1956--- you might be in the position to be appointed for another federal office. II And I said, "I should
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , enlist in the army, and their reward would be citizenship. Like we did to Yugoslav pilots and so on in World War II. So I said, "Yes, sir. How much time do I have?" Well, this was like Tuesday afternoon. I could be off a day, but it was like Tuesday
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • cars "7hich, of course, had r;:;ciios. Most of you came to work in White Did the President in tha.t period when you were somewhere between home and the White House utilize that service much, 0:: diG h Ii ;;ot in tC~lcli tend to Hilit until you
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and having seen your resume, he has asked to talk with you. II I went to see Jack Connor and had never met him before, nor had I met Macy. But about forty-five minutes after I had walked in, I walked out, saying, "Mr. Secretary, the only thing I do know
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • LBJ 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 INTERVIEW II DATE: June 2, 1969
  • Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was fairly clear-cut. J: Oh, it was very clear, very clear, yes. I wrote as a result of these two long visits and all the research that I did the State Department paper ca 11 ed "A Threat to the Peace, II whi ch was a report on develop- ments
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the war and we're against it, why do they support it? During World War II, when I first went to prison as a war objector, if I had been five years LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a temperamental Irishman. F: I've never talked to any McCarthy enemies who didn't like him personally. G: I think that's true. I knew Joe before he ever came to Washington. I knew him when he came out of World War II and he used to come out to Arizona
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • World War II. I'd' been there actually a little less than a year when I was asked to head up this new board. The history of that was I had had a major part in setting up the arrangements under the National Security Council, under President Truman
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about, the trip you are supposed--the thirteen states you are supposed--. II He said, "I don't know what you're talking about. That's the trouble with LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • McGarr and said, "General, we won t be needing you I here, II which was rather abrupt. G: Do you have any insight as to what was behind that? N: Well, I'm sure the decision had been made that General McGarr would be transferred, but so far as I
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • yourself a communications jeep or something. But I want to be sure that I can get through and you can get through in case there's any important intelligence for me. II So, by golly, he called me up at least four or five times in the very short period
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape II 2 (Nov. 13, 1968, Nov. 14, 1968) A: I felt this was one of those times when it did make a difference who was the American chief representative in this mission--in this case, Sofia. That, quite possible, if I had been
  • Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a short distance away, not very far away. You've got some of the biggest mansions in the world at Bar Harbor." "Well," I said, II we don't know any of those people. II LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • inclination at the outset was just to sort of play it by ear and see what they had in mind, and whether they were serious or not, because it really was not the kind of negotiation where you go in with a fi xed pos i t i on and say, II We 11, here's our
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • largely political they were somewhat over their heads. I felt that had they been faced with the Russians on the plains of Germany they'd have given a very good account of themselves, but this was not World War II and it was not the preparations for World
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Well, when President Johnson became president, I think he was somewhat suspicious of the military. In other words, he really had no military orientation in his past. He had served for a while, of course, in Horld War II, in the Navy, I believe
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CE::ERAL SEEV ICES Amn:.iI STEll nON NATIO:iAL ARCHIVES A~D RECORDS SEHV ICE Gift of Personal St3tem~nt
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Fowler's guy Donnelley. Leave him alone." I said, "So?" wouldn't touch you with a htmdred-foot pole. II at the same time angry. this was not my idea. He said, "We Well, I was flattered and I talked to Mr. Fowler about it. He said, "Dixon
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • War II, because you know you're going to deploy all the resources that you can without disrupting your on-going civilian economy. But in a conflict of this sort of a highly limited character, a good deal of the pace and scale of the war depends
Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at Baton Rouge campus of Louisiana State University and then entered medical school in July of 1942. Since this was the World War II period, we were on the accelerated program, and I completed medical school in June of 1945, a three-year program. I
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ! That he could think that I think that I could buy his support with a turkey! II Very disgusted. I remember also going to their house when their girls were very small children. Bird had bought the radio station by that time. She took money that she
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the words. F: I can go back before that because I was in the British Navy in World War II, and I know what they thought of him there as a politician. H: He could get along with people. He could get people in the room, and as I have often said I think
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Johnson wanting him to come down and see him before he went. Lyndon was trying to put the last screw into everybody, turn the ratchet one more time. So Sherrod was in a situation like that. He was a very good World War II correspondent, I think
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on here. news conference has not materialized yet. Senate Majority Leader. This I haven't even seen the He's around here somewhere, but I haven't really seen him, and I just don't know. said, "What the hell is going on? II He kind of pressed me
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • II of asserting its role in the foreign policy business. But earlier, within the Senate, there had tended to be a deference to the Foreign Relations Committee and very often to the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. You remember
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and we worried lest both the kids and the faculties were becoming lethargic. F: Yes, I remember that complacent generation. It worried me as a history professor. M: After World War II, we always blamed it on World War II because you had a double
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Australian But it's because we do in fact have exactly the same outlook broadly on world issues. F: My feeling in Australia during World War II was that these were an LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . At that time I had an opportunity to talk to him for about forty-five minutes. We exchanged the usual pleasantries, and then he discussed his experiences in World War II in the Navy, and we discussed several mutual friends, such as Governor Connally of Texas
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . Don't tell me, I know you can't keep coming here with all these people wanting you, but I just want you to know." So he surprised me. He called me up and said, "1'11 be out there. II So he came, and he made a speech--each one of these speeches just
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But the first opportunity, Mr. Roosevelt made it apply to all people who had a worthy project that was in the public interest and couldn't get financing locally at reasonable rates. He said go to the RFC and get it. You know when World War II started
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • stamp, in a sense? W: Exactly. F: III'm for the administration. II W: I never heard him, not one single time, ever put a bad word on President Kennedy. Never. That's not to say he didn't do it, but he certainly never did it to me. By then, you
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • War II and the Chinese were determined to hang on to them. I've been there on the island. You can look out and as far as when you get up to the ground and look from there over to where you join the--when you come out of the Lotsford Road and look over
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • has given over thirty years of his life to it would be so easy on inaugural to not be there. and I thought~ Texas~" and And I said, "Everybody's all dressed. II And there was a conflict out at the Coliseum because we were having a cocktail party