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- INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER May 13, 1969 B: This is the interview with Governor Lester Maddox of Georgia. Sir, do you recall if you had any acquaintance or knowledge of Mr. Johnson, say, before the 1960's, when he was a senator? M: Yes, sir, I did, because
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 D: Well, let me back up a bit. on and off. I've been in government almost twenty years, And I first returned to the State Department in 1958 with the then-Under Secretary Douglas Dillon. with him here in State. I spent
- Biographical information; first association with LBJ; Estes Kefauver; Douglas Dillon; Pierce Salinger; Joseph Laitin; Horace Busby; George Reedy; Henry Fowler; Bill Moyers; Bob McCloskey; Frederick Deming; George Christian; relations with the White
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh February 1, 1971 B: This is the interview with Senator Lister Hill. here very briefly your background. Sir, let me just read You were born here in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1894, and attended the University of Alabama
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cross -- II -- 5 House about eight o'clock that night. watch the speech on television. I wanted to be home in time to And so I left about eight o'clock, and that time of the evening I could drive home, and of course I drove
- INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE C. WALLACE INTERVIEWER: T. H. Baker PLACE: Governor Wallace's office, Montgomery, Alabama Tape 1 of 1 B: This is the interview with Governor George Wallace. Sir, do you recall you had any acquaintance with Mr. Johnson before
- . And so he said to me--and I'll never forget this either--he said, "Cross, you boys must be getting tired." "Well , yes, sir. And I said, We need to get home and get some clean clothes." He said, "Well, I'll tell you what: you go on back to Bergstrom
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , and if the ball calls for me to make the throw to home rather than throw to first I'll throw home, although in my own mind I figured I could catch the man coming down to first and the run was going to score on me anyway, if you follow that baseball analogy . Yes
- mTERVIB~EE: FRANK CHURCH INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Senator Church's office, OS08 405, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin simply by identifying you, sir. You're Frank Church, senator, Democratic senator from Idaho. You came
- INTERVIEWEE: LYMAN LEMNITZER INTERVIEWER: Ted Gitt i nger PLACE: General Lemnitzer's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: All right, sir, please go ahead. L: It was about that time that General [George C.] Marshall took over from Louis Johnson
- to Congress. B; Yes, sir, as a Congressional Secretary. Was Mr. Johnson a protégé of some of the older hands in the House, like Mr. Rayburn and Carl Vinson? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org M: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
- ? B: Yes, sir, but I believe he left in '35, the year that you got elected to be NYA Director out in Texas. H: How long was he here before he went to the Senate? B: He was in Congress from 1937 to 1948. H: Those were turbulent years. World War
- INTERVIEWEE: DANIEL O. GRAHAM INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Graham's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: All right, sir, go ahead. DG: Let me tell you first my connections with the Vietnam affair. It probably started back in about
- controlling parts of China, not just this island which we recently got back from Japan." Japan defeated China in 1895 and took over the island of Taiwan and gave it back. [General Douglas] MacArthur engineered the return of it after they were defeated in World
- INTERVIEWEE: CARL SANDERS INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Governor Sanders' office in Atlanta, Georgia Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, do you recall if you met Mr. Johnson any time before the 1960s while he was still a senator? S: Oh, yes, I had met Mr
- to it. B= All right sir. Have you had at any time during your career any direct contact with Mr. Johnson, either as a Congressman or Vice President or President? W: Yes, I have had some, they've been rather infrequent. While Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- to you, you have any changes or corrections or additions--anything like that. Has that ever occurred? A: No, I think that won't be a problem with us here. M: Sir, you came to Congress just two years after Mr. Johnson ran and was elected
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- as Paul Douglas used to be, absolutely uncompromising and never gain a damn thing. Or they can come as Kerr and Johnson did and as Kerr once said, "I'd rather take home a sack half full to my people than a full sack with the bottom shelled out
- you describe that, sir? in that? Did Mr . Johnson inquire into it, or did you, as Administrator, point out to him the problem? B: Who initiated the presidential interest How did it work? This was actually mostly before I was Administrator
- got a copy of it. M: Sir, in September of 1964, President Johnson spoke at the 200th anniversary convocation at Brown University. Do you recall how this was arranged and how it came about and the sequence of events leading up to and through his
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: DOUGLAS DILLON INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN M: Letl s begin by identifying you sir. More on LBJ
- See all online interviews with C. Douglas Dillon
- Dillon, C. Douglas (Clarence Douglas), 1909-2003
- Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
- C. Douglas Dillon
- : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 M: Did Mr. Johnson ever get involved in that at all? L: Not to my knowledge. I worked there with Dick Goodwin and others in the White House and of course, with the Secretary of the Treasury, Douglas
- Library oral histories: -6http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Dick Kleberg and Paul Kilday were real good friends and so ,,;ras Lyndon Johnson a good friend of the Kildays. F: Did you knm,;r Franklin Roosevelt? Q: Yes, sir. F: Did he take
- , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID G. NES INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Nes' home, Owings Mills, Maryland Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Nes, may we begin by simply saying that the account in David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest of your assignment
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- impressed In the official meetings I wasn't present. I was present later at the Ambassador s--I believe it was Ambassador [Douglas] MacArthur [II] at the time--at his home when he had a private party for the. Prime Minister. The Prime Minister slicing
- , have any struck you as being particularly meritorious or with substance, or are they all, to your mind, meretricious? N: You mean the criticisms? G: Yes, sir. N: Well, I hate to brand everything, including stuff I haven't read, as being wrong
- and involved a nuclear war between the United States and the Russians and/or Chinese, I don't know. But I do know that I am convinced that had we followed [Douglas] MacArthur's thrust--and I don't fault Harry Truman for firing MacArthur--but had we followed
- was a I had had little previous administrative experience. r had been director of the NRA in Virginia briefly. But I was predominantly a newspaper writer in those days, an assistant to the distinguished editor of Richmond's afternoon newspaper, Douglas
- : All right, sir. Is it accurate to say that your first involvement in intelligence regarding Vietnam was when you were at USARPAC? D: Yes. That's true. You don't watch it with the single focus that the J-2 MACV watches it, because that's the whole
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nay 13, 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., in his office in New York on Hay 13, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Weisl, you're out of Illinois, right? W: Yes, sir. F: Tell us a little
- . M: And how long have you been in that pOSition, sir? W: I've been here since the first of January 1968. M: For the last year of the Johnson Administration, then. At the beginning of the Johnson Administration, you were commanding in the I
- address? Voice: Yes, sir. G: Dig it up, will you? He might be a big help to you. F: Yes, I'd be very interested. Johnson, of course, in this period became the Senate majority leader. Did that make any great difference in the operation of the Senate
- , "Well look, go home and get it and bring it to Sarg." Strange request; you could have gotten a black tie anywhere. "Bring it to Sarg over at the White House. cleared at the northwest gate." Mind you, I'd never been in the place before. the tie
- about broadening the thing to include accidents and illnesses as well as combat wounds, because down at the unconscious level where people are safe or unsafe, you are developing a secondary game. So that if I wanted to be home with my family at Christmas
- is worried about staff, and I think you ought to go out there with him." And they invited me up to the family home in Beverly, north of Boston--I was in Washington--to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
- well Now, if you were down there in the Delta and you were going to get this piece of land you had lived right next door to for a long, long time, why, that's home. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
- thing. G: All right, sir. 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 DePuy
- over this particular issue? T: No. Are we still talking about the time in 1957? G: Yes, sir. T:· t>{o. G; Of course that brings us to a very big year, in 1961. T: Which I recorded very thoroughly in Swords and Plowshares. G: Yes, sir
- INTERV I a'IEE: FREDERICK G. DUTTON HnERVIE~JER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, let me mention some things here because I think they ought to be in the transcript. 0: Right. B: You were the Organizing Director
- INTERVIEWEE: BUFORD ELLINGTON INTERVIEWER: T.H. BAKER PLACE: Governor Ellington's office in the State Capitol, Nashville, Tennessee Tape 1 of 2 B: Sir, if I may read just a little background material. You were born in Mississippi and attended
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger
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- . But it was routine in the sense, as I just told you, that at the same time there were many, many ships at sea worldwide doing the same thing. G: Yes, sir. Is it fair, as has been done, to characterize the patrol of the Maddox as part of a program of--pressures