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Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Eugene Patterson Sub .i ect (s) covered 15 - 17 Built-in antagonism between the Justice Department and the Civil Rights Cormnission; Robert Kennedy Nicholas Katzenbach; Ramsey Clark; Frankie Freeman 18 '65 report on discrimination in agriculture
Rights Commission; a discussion with LBJ about the press; LBJ meets with observers of the 1967 elections in Vietnam, a staged affair; Civil Rights Commission-Justice Department relations, especially under RFK; LBJ ignores the Civil Rights Commission

Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Times. G: Who was bureau chief at that time? B: In 1966 the bureau chief was Charles Mohr, M-O-H-R, who was probably the best single newspaper correspondent in the Vietnam affair. He had been there off and on, first for Time, since 1962, did cover

Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

University, and I had always resisted going to Brigham Young University. 1 guess like most young people 1 had been resisting the counsel of my parents. But my major objection to Brigham Young University was that 1 didn't like their Speech Department. My

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the faces of these Indian farmers, totally illiterate, living in this weird back water of the world where they were conducting their affairs in about the same way that their remote ancestors had conducted their affairs--their faces lit up; they actually

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the United States would have no real voice or real prestige in international affairs unless it had the necessary defense strength to back it up. 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. I've never had one of those, and I want one." Now what he was referring to, to clarify this, was a special kind of establishment thing. When he came here and Roosevelt seized upon him intuitively, and had him put on the Naval Affairs Committee

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was, of course. At that time she was named secretary of the year, as a matter of fact, in the whole State Department. But Ellsworth was--he simply wouldn't raise a question like that. He felt that you led your own personal life, and that was your business. And I
for operations in Laos and Cambodia by Westmoreland, Bunker, and General Creighton Abrams; the Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) under Barry Zorthian; Philip Habib and his relationship with Zorthian; the role of political counselor at embassies; Edward

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

much interested in civic affairs in Texas. He attempts to organize people to do things that are pro- gressive. He works at it. He is openhanded with contributions. He is not a millionaire as people think--I think he is well-off as people go

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, or dissident State Department people. What happened was our sources became the people who were in the field, and who, finding that their pessimism was not being paid attention to by their superiors, turned increasingly to the press corps. Neil Sheehan

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

room, let their hair down, and share their problems, with the hope that they would get to knmv Americans better and Americans get to know Asians better. I think it's been a successful experiment. The State Department is now considering setting up

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the team. J: Well, I was on the National Security Council at the time, as you know, on the staff in charge of Far East affairs, so I had been working on Vietnam for quite a few years, [for] three steadily and before that for a couple of years, in and out

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

can't settle for neutralism when your military affairs are going downhill. Lodge mentioned many times, "If the French had had a conference on neutralism with the Germans, who were occupying France in 1943, it wouldn't have been so good

Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. In other words, that was my job- -to see that they had one. M: Did you have to follow up and check their activities? W: Yes, I followed up some, but we had other departments that followed up, sent them materials, and so on. We were doing it in a short

Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to them~ and that the federal government ought to latch on to the property since the Court had held that they had a right to it. F: O'Mahoney, as I recall, wanted the Interior Department to hold these lands in receivership until you could get

Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: --the Johnsons. G: So your parents had this place before you then, is that right? TW: Yes, it is. G: This is your ancestral place? TW: Right. I mean, we got--the State Department of Agriculture deal there. This place has been in the family for one

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to go a step further with respect to tidelands, when Daniel got to Washington, his big issue had been tidelands and Johnson was completely responsible for him being made a member of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee which was the committee

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, was there any reason for going the navy route? There's no particular se~loving or seafaring background, is there? J: No, except that he had already served on the Naval Affairs Committee in the House for four years. He went on the Naval Affairs Corrmittee

Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

come that afternoon you'd have a houseful because they've got to drive in from Muleshoe and other places, and they just don't get there on time. M: So what did you do? F: I'd gotten my students out. I was chairman of the department, and I'd worked

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

might have taken place in the past. If what I've read is true--I don't know about what his affairs were or anything else--if that were true, she was a long-suffering person who put up with a lot and never backed off an inch; loved him, stayed with him

Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on that bill. It almost became a bone of contention between the Democrats and the Republicans because the Defense Department was up in arms on it. We finally settled on one that got, typical of Lyndon, unanimous consent, which said the Secretary of Defense

Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. I was administrative head of the research department and after about a year there my boss was George Mitchell who is now on the Board of Governors appointed by President Kennedy--he had been on leave when I first came

Oral history transcript, Julian J. Ewell, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, who was State Department, didn't know anything about pacification but he was a quick learner, and we finally figured out the four or five forcing elements in the HES system and concentrated on those, at my direction. agreed. Well, I talked him

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the JCS to the secretary of defense for international affairs, Mr. McNolly. G: [John] McNaughton, was it, McNaughton? S: Yes. McNaughton. Then go across the river to the State Department and the White House. G: Who would approve it at State? S

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the Kennedy campaign, and is, I think, one of the most able fellows and political operatives I've ever known. He was with me throughout those meetings. He may have missed a couple of them because of his own business affairs. But he was the closest one to me

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

never know who the enemy is. The enemy is the Defense Department. the State Department. The enemy is the 001." The enemy is Then he looked up and I snorted, and they had to stop the class and start over again. (Laughter) That myth was very much

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

over a period of time myself. I'd talked to Henry Wilson a little bit before he left, and had worked with Henry because I was in the Congressional end of things at the Justice Department, so I knew generally what the operation was. As best I could

Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

-- 13 He had been Marshall's personal assistant in the State Department, eventually becoming under secretary for Near East and African affairs. He was a natural choice. And yet I was useful because I always had Nasser's ear. Such things happened because

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in public housing per se? R: Not much. G: How about the naval expansion bill in 1938? Do you remember that? R: No. I think he was interested in Austin getting a project. Johnson was then on the--he was almost immediately on Naval Affairs, wasn't he

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in governmental affairs, budgetary affairs, and all the other matters that back then were of importance. well. He got along extremely O'Daniel called upon him in many instances for advice and counsel in regard to state government, and I guess Governor Stevenson

Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

this Hubbard ~1edal in the Armory on April 9 1962, and there were some ten thousand people in that hall. 5 We nad it packed. Every seat that the fire department would allow was taken. F: Was this an invitation sort of affair, or did anyone come who

Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

at such times as I've met him officially over in the appointment secretary's office. As you know, we're responsible here for all the military affairs that go on and, of course, I have tried to get out of his way at a few of these when he has taken the time

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

conversation, or telling stories. G: These parties were often New Deal parties, weren't they? R: Oh, yes. G: People in the Interior Department or RFC? R: Well, all varieties, I mean from all parts of the government. G: Would you say he was closer

Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it." Mr. Johnson was there the next morning, and, as I recall, the Senator had a little conversation with him and then sent him down to someone in the department. The outcome of it was, with other help that may have been registered, Mr. Johnson

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 2 (II), 4/17/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Greenville, then a newspaper publisher and now the current assistant secretary of state for public affairs. Another was Owen Cooper of Yazoo City who was then the president of the Mississippi Chemical Company, and president of the Mississippi Chamber

Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

remember just exactly what they talked about, generally about the state of the nation, the Roosevelt Administration, Lyndon's plans for the Senate, about local affairs of interest to Mr . Carter . I do distinctly remember that Lyndon had his face within

Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

into Oxford and a number of other things. And the Justice Department was active in Mississippi during that period. Were you ever contacted by any representatives of the Justice Department about the events in Mississippi and their work? c: Oh, yes

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