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Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • knowing that I was going to get a telephone call from him and that I had to get my point home about the Boston Naval Yard, which was in my congressional district . I knew that, getting to him, he understood politics and he was a very easy guy to talk
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • home and I thought it was better to do what I thought was right and, particularly, where the rights of an American citizen and the life of an American citizen was involved. Department liked it or not. very obvious. I didn't worry about, you know
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ' rights basis, I suppose you'd term it. When I got here and this bill came up, I read the bill at night. Mrs. Pickle was in Austin. I'd take it home in the evening and read it and I'd debate it with myself. I was coming around to the conclusion
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : This is at the end of his ambassadorship? Z: No. When he went out there, he came back every few months. His first visit back was early in September. I came with him because my family was here and my home leave had been cancelled. two days home leave back here
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh February 17, 1969 M: This is the third session with Frederick Deming. home in Washington, D.C. I am now in his The time is 2:25 in the afternoon, and the date is February 17, 1969, and I am David McComb. We were going
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I had come to the Senate, about two-thirds of the senators on the Republican side were conservative and thought more like I did, and twothirds of the senators on the Democratic side were far out to the left. Philosophically, I just felt more at home
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ERNEST GRUENING INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Senator Gruening's home, 7926 West Beach Drive, N.W., Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: The interview opens with a description of my sole trip to Alaska . . and Juneau and went up to Sk.a.gway
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that the discus sion was one of such import that Presid ent Johnson called me direc tly . at . home on a Saturday, I've forgot ten the date, and I gave him this analy sis. This was -.- - 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and It's like the ministry. It's like military It's better performed if you've got an element of dedication in the person. And I think we have to have that dedication if we're going to cope with the problems at home and the competition from certain
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • issues. And he didn't want to put things in motion at the eleventh hour that would come home to roost in the next Administration and that they'd have to deal with. Well, the combination of those concerns led him to have a difficult time with the task
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was made to feel completely at home and occasionally had breakfast with him at his bedside, at one time we talked until the late hours in the evening. He would call me during the course cif the day and say,. IIStop down and let's talk.'1 He told me
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • you win in a day or-- N: That's quite a different thing. P: Or you lose in a day, and your troops come home the next, which is not the way-- N: The way you phrased the question was, you said could we better explain the lead time in LBJ
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • B: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh He was coming home after Nixon had been inaugurated in 1969~ "Here's a man who
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • no problems with them. F: Of course, Johnson and Rayburn both were in a sense swimming upstream in their home state. M: Right. I think Governor Stevenson knew in his heart that you couldn't beat Eisenhower in 1956. There were some of us, including me
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jorden -- III -- 17 J: Well, as I remember, I was at home, hearing it on television. G: What impact did it have on you? J: I was appalled. I was appalled. I thought it was a terrible
Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • invi ted to the White House, you must remember you're a guest. If you are going to come and make political capital of it, I think you ought to stay home." I never had anyone fail me. If I knew they were really what you might call "kooks," I would
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • It caused me a little trouble, but not that I went home and told them why--that I'd rather have them have • the wheat and eat it up and have it pass on into infinity than I would have them save the gold and use it to buy machine tools or something. M
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • have troubles enough at home and why go outside and worry about them. I think it's a result of a failure to recognize that we can't insulate ourselves from the rest of the world. F: We can't. With your work in the development program, and with your
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • clearly it has added to divisiveness at home; it has added to divisiveness in the other portions of our alliance structure; we've paid heavily psychologically, politically, and materially, and in casualties in connection with the defense of South Vietnam
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • - tially the bottom line was you couldn't really get the South Vietnamese to fight so you had to go in and do it yourself. Somehow you had to do it without causing enough impact back home so that you had to raise taxes and you had to get the Congress
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in more simple and lucid form than he can . He's a guy who loved the limelight and enjoyed the opportunity to really drive this home publicly . I do think the hard economic problems came up when the patient was willing to take our medicine, and we got
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that they should be and at the same time keep a one-year rotation pol icy, \'/hich has proved to be a very great morale factor among the troops. In other words, they know they are going to go there for one year, and then they come home. I say, we are over
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • they arrived and set up our coverage. But, as a matter of fact, the morning of President Kennedy's assassination I had gone to John Nance Garner's home down in Uvalde. It was the former Vice President's birthday, ninety- sixth or ninety-seventh birthday, I
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES L. BARTLETT INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY PIERCE McSWEENY PLACE: Mr. Bartlett's home~ 4615 WStreet~ NW~Hashington~D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Mr. Bartlett, I'd like to begin this interview with a very brief outline of your journalistic career
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • your nomination? B: How did it happen, the phone call, and everything else? I had been home in Michigan to attend the funeral of my sister, and when I came back, Mr . (John) Gronouski, the Postmaster General, (1963--65), said that the then Deputy
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that? I started the study on Panama in 1958 and when I came home I was convinced that we were in for serious trouble. So I submitted to the Secretary of State a series of recommendations--higher wages for the Panamanians, the purchase of supplies
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . is seen in job opportunities. The same His emphasis in housing on giving people the chance to own their own home and show that they can keep it up and value it and preserve it as others in our society do. In terms of pro- tection of workers against
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was looking for somebody to move into his sub-cabinet. Let me back off a moment. The inquiry was made at the National Housing Conference meeting in early March of 1966 in Washington. He had tried to reach me at home and he called on a day when my wife
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Vietnamese were to say, "Okay, you've licked us; we quit; we're going home; you can put in UN troops lining the border all at arms length." And you will end up with an independent autonomouS anti-Communist South Vietnam. And supposing that as a result
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • is you can never say "no" to a He didn't even ask me. He just assumed that if he said "yes," I would. I remember when I came home that night. The meeting had been scheduled for about 1:00 o'clock in the afternoon, and he got to me about 7:00 instead
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 15 you may recall, and then went home for Labor Day recess. As I under- stood the calendar--this was just from outside
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • filtered through so many layers. We were definitely at the assistant secretary level there, which was a high level for having this kind of discussion. But I know going home that night and many times afterwards I thought, well, I can't think of anything
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on the Friday and he wasn't able to do anything about it and was sticking close to home--but anyway it wasn't until Saturday he really got engaged. Anyway, Saturday I spent a fair amount of time trying to pick up the pieces, sorting LBJ Presidential Library
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)
  • first came in. see me, to my home in the El Cerrito hills. Sarge Shriver came out to I was then working on the master plan for higher education and I was working on new campuses, et cetera, and I recommended to him a combination, and the one which
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with General Curtis LeMay who made his home in Newport Beach, California. just to get started. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. with Mr. Johnson? General, Incidentally, I'm a World War II veteran so I have been following you for a long time. L: More
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on. You know I can't get these pictures in the New York Times." She said, "Oh, I know that. about it. Don't worry Just take them and go on and forget it." So I took the pictures and went on. That night at home a big black limousine drove up in front
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • home to the British government that we knew what we were talking about on the facts ; and we had succeeded in doing so . But McCone was absolutely adamant, and this was, of course, his bailiwick ; and we all recognized that there would be serious