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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • GOLDSCHMIDT (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Goldschmidt's horne in New York City November 6, 1974 MG: Let's start from the beginning and the first time you met Lyndon Johnson. EG: Well, I met him in a very characteristic way
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , an old Moscow callow colleague [?J. I'd been up to Saigon on a long visit one time, so I knew the situation up there, the physical situation. Then I came back and I was briefed in the department and in the Pentagon and in the CIA and everything else
  • Assignment to Vietnam; situation there at the time; view of Diem in late 1950s; Wolf Ladejinsky; land reform; problems with relocation program; the Montagnards; conflict with General Sam Williams; MAAG and the embassy; Williams and Diem
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . As a matter of fact, Patton at one time had been the regimental commander of the Third Cavalry, in the pre-World War II days. After the war I went to Leavenworth, and upon graduation from Leavenworth was picked up in the staff and faculty in the School
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1970 INTERVIEWEE: HARRY ASHMORE INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Santa Barbara, California Tape 1 of 3 F: Mr. Ashmore, let's talk first chronologically. let's give a very brief resume of your life up to the time that you began to emerge
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at that time was in the Treasury Department. So he invited me to join the Budget Bureau LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --the following people: Governor Stevenson, l"Ir. Rayburn, Grace Tully, the driver, and myself. And we drove to the Ranch in Johnson City. F: What was Grace Tully's role in this? M: She was, at the time, I think, one of LBJ's secretaries. had, of course
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the afternoon. The date is March 4, and the time My name is David McComb. P: The year is 1969. M: Yes, you might add that, 1969--somebody may wish to know that 50 years from now. First of all, I'd like to know something about your background, where were
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the deep depreSSion days), and I had only had that position a short time; about a post office. I I was satisfied and didn't know anything told him that, but he said I'd make a good one and insisted that I accept it, which I did. ?: Have you been
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : professionally, politically, and certainly personally. B: In the times you've been associated with government, generally, have you found Mr. Johnson to be knowledgeable on agricultural affairs? M: Yes, he is. B: Even down into the technicalities? M: Yes
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh advisor to many of us and was well versed in the history of China at that time. [He] predicted pretty accurately what was about to happen
  • relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape 4) June 2, 1969 M: You had gotten last time to the summer of 1966 with the decision to bomb the Haiphone POL, which came at the end of various efforts at peacemaking . The one question that occurred to me just as we
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • all the time: he kept his options open. Even on some of the things that other people may look at as relatively insignificant, he still kept his options open and the decisions were his. You know, for a reporter or writer where he used to go out--and I
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : During the time out there, any disputes between the politicians as to what was going to happen in the campaign, I had the sole decision to make . In other words, [being] from outside of the state, I knew none of the politicians . I told them where
Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Building in Washington, D.C. The date is December 2, 1968, and the time is 1:30 p.m. First of all, Dr. Stewart, I'd like to know something about your background. S: Where were you born and when? I was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 19, 1921, grew
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 19, 1968 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Mr. Goldstein of the White House staff. This, like all previous ones, is confidential until otherwise notified. Mr. Goldstein, you said last time that when
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on and so on. Z: Right. G: Khe Sanh was coming in for an awful lot of attention about this time, too, and there have been criticisms of that coverage. What was good or bad about the press coverage at Khe Sanh? Z: One, on the impact of Tet on public
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . 1970 INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES ROBERTS INTERVIEt1ER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Roberts office, Washington. D. C. I Tape 1 of 3 F: Mr. Roberts, you were in Dallas at the time of the assassination, November. 1963. R: Ri ght. F: Did you have any
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Convention, because they were having a problem with the r'~ississippi Freedom Democratic Party and that the President's, President Johnson, major concern at the convention was to keep that from blowing the convention apart. At that time and until
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in disagreement with the Kennedy Administration's sale of wheat to the Soviet Union. Did he ever talk about that? N: No. I don't [recall it]. G: HO\'J about on Vietnam at the time he was vice president? He went to Vietnam once. N: Yes, he did. the staff
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it not been for the enormous cost of Vietnam. going to take a little time catching up. But I think we're I don't mean to say that we're not militarily superior to the Soviet Union--I'm sure we are--but looking down the road, I worry a little bit that we
Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • or grants of any consequence--that is $5- or $10,000,000-and a little later all PL 480, Food for Peace sales and grants--I should say sales of any size. It was initiated, I believe, because of his desire to have a close personal control over the timing
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and saw something of the then-Senator Johnson at that time. The first time I recall talking with Senator Johnson was during the fall of 1956 when Senator Kefauver and I were campaigning throughout Texas with Senator Johnson. Senator Johnson led us
  • House press apparatus; Dean Acheson; Dean Rusk; Senator Aiken; Congressman Moss; Mr. Rooney; Mr. Katzenbach; Eugene Rostow; the press; Joe Alsop; Vietnam coverage; mail; lag time in making records available; Douglas Cater; transition; Lady Bird; trip
Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . But by the time I got there I realized I should do a broader book. That was Viet Congo From then on, of course, as long as the war continued, I was labeled an expert on the Viet Cong and experienced in Vietnam. get out of the field. So I couldn't I spent
Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • theater of World War II. After World War II, I also served in Korea as Division Artillery Commander in 1956-57 time frame. From then on--when I came back from Korea in '57--1 spent the next approximately ten years in intelligence as the Director
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to affronts . He also I remember one time--I don't know whether it's on the previous tape or not--he came to Fort Worth to speak . He � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and providing for the tape some background information, at the end of which time I'd like you to fill it in or complement it in any way you feel fit. You were born in 1900 in Atlanta. In 1923 you received the bachelor of arts degree from Morehouse College
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to everybody. I extended the study so that it wasn't just a study of cul- tural affairs officers, but of the functions of educational and cultural diplomacy generally. I turned it in on time. President Kennedy was dead. By that time, of course, I turned