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Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the North Carolina Senate from 1936 to 1941. After service in World War II you served in the North Carolina Senate from 1947 to 1952, at which time you were elected to Congress and have served continuously since that time. F: That's right. McS: You
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://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 9 to go through what we call the Development Loan Committee. II m the chairman
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on my wrist here which I bought in Hong Kong in 1953 \'Ihen I was there with then-Vice President Nixon. was a great buy. II It He said, "Theis, why don't you keep your mouth shut?" Well, that triggered something in my mind. He landed at our first
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • served through World War II. Where was your duty then? S: My first duty was at sea in the Gulf of Mexico. flight training and became an aviator. Later I went on to During World War II, I served on both the west and east coast in anti-submarine
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • their soil. First the Japanese--when they stood with us' in World War II, in a kind of a underground sense; then the French, they fought for eight years and finally threw the French out. Then what do we do but stumble into the same trap that the French
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and he was going through the pile. There were thirteen of them. He got down to the 1etter to you, and he looked up and he sa i d to me, 'You know, I used to \'lOrk for that guy.' II I was amused duri ng my subsequent weeks as T noticed the extent
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ; and they were sort of pushed into the Foreign 6 H U Y L F H But anyway, this Z D V done, and I don't really think it helped the Foreign 6 H U Y L F H as a whole. M: You Z H U H back in the days toward the H Q G of World W a r II, appointed as liaison
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • winning Pulitzer Prizes for their glorious exposes and so on, then it became an epidemic in the press corps, and people began to think, "Well, that's the way to get ahead in this business. salary. II That's the way to win prizes and double your
Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . II I didn't know at the time who had written them, at that exact time, but I found out several months later that the handwriter had been then Lieutenant Colonel Robert Gard, G-A-R-D, who was the military assistant to McNaughton at the time
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with the President was on the subject of our dependents. dependents. He was terribly worried about the American Even at the time I went over, he gave me a long talk--"I think we ought to get them out just as fast as we can. II I asked him to please let me get
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there. M: But he said, II I have an appointment with Sall next week. I'll try to pursue that. Tha t' s worth fi ndi ng out about. '). ". Tell him that somebody said it; don't tell him that I did. M: Oh, no. R: I've seen him a lot since
Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that we've prosecuted except for World Wars I and II, have been unpopular at some point or another within the United States and have placed the presidents who prosecuted them in very real political jeopardy . M: I don't ever know that the Council's the place
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • me if I'm wrong--I gather that very serious attention began being given Alaskan statehood in Congress after World War II. President Truman's message. Of course you've indicated This was of course almost simultaneous with Senator Bartlett's election
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and I was an officer for three and a half years, an infantry officer in World War II. about how the machine works and how the mind works. I know something I know, for exam- ple, that as a young cadet and as a junior officer, I was taught what every
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • an overall point of view, I think the number of deserters and people AWOL in this war are probably significantly less than in World War II and Korea. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a particular lawsuit, recognizes it has done wrong and that the taxpayer ought to win. Perhaps that's the greatest moment a lawyer can have in representing the United States is to say, "We've been wrong. II It's not a privilege that's afforded pri- vate
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and just didn't have the capability that the others had. I understand that General McGarr was one of the great regimental commanders with the Third Division all through World War II, and in my opinion and for what it's worth, I think that his great service
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there all my life except for World War II and the years I spent in Washington. I have no desire to live anywhere else. Any particular point which you want to [start with]? G: How did you get into Senator [Robert] Kerr's orbit? R: When I got out
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • have said, we [retaliated]." II Yes , they hit us, so He couldn't conceive that they would have conjured up something and faked it. But then when you got into sustained bombing, heavy, heavy B-29-or whatever the hell we were using then--bombing
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and booby traps, and here's why that's important. In World War II, for example, when we were fighting a conventional war, something on the order of 3 per cent of American LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at Harvard. Then I got caught up in the U. S. Army during World War II and had about four years of that, including a long siege of combat in Europe. When I came back from the army, I went to the Charlotte News as editor and stayed there about a year
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . at the statistics. I'm now looking Overall, the man in mental categories I, II, and III--that's from the highest to about the middle--4 per cent have to be recycled or given some extra help in basic training. In the Category IV men--all the Project 100,000 men
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • discussions with Harold Howe II and others about new legislation. M: Who? K: Harold Rowe, the Commissioner of Education. And I've been on quite a number of task forces to recommend new legislation. M: What task forces? K: Task forces to recommend
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • those excise taxes had gone on in World War II 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
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the Press." The relevant part to this was that the program had not been over more than thirty seconds when one of the assistants in the studi 0 said, IIGovernor Brovm, Senator Johnson is on the phone. II LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson ran back to my seat and said, IIDon't you want to be on the Armed Services Committee?" I said, liVes, I would like to be." And he said, IIAnd you voted the other way here. II I said, "Yes, I did." He didn't say any more. I learned later
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • II and-- B: Last throes of the New Deal. Can you recall freshman Congressman Lyndon Johnson about 1937? H: Well, yes, I was conscious of his being here. It was later before I got closely acquainted with him. B: About when would that have been
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • responsibility for procurement. This involved the placing of a vast number of very large orders, and the reactivation of World War II plants that had been shut down--and various actions. Of course, we were in very close consultation with the Senate LBJ
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Development is a non-profit organization consisting primarily of businessmen, but also some educators. It was created during World War II to investigate matters of public policy relating to business and economics. They have been the most responsible
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember we used to talk together a lot, I don't remember the details because I was not really interested in whether he sought my advice . G: Let me ask you a couple of questions about Lyndon Johnson during World War II . I know that you visited
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , and we did work it out. Again, there were questions remaining as a result of World War II between the United States and the Republic of the Philippines, and a joint commission was formed of which I was a part, and we worked those things out. Things
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • College and got my A.B. degree there. And then [I received] an M.A. at Stanford, Ph.D., University of California. Then I returned to the University of California at the end of World War II as a faculty member. I was the founding head of the LBJ