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Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

man out of Washington. M: [l~inston G.] Lawson,who was a Secret He led the parade that day. Now, I would assume that you've given testimony about your actions at thi~ parade. C: Yes. M: What, before the Warren Commission? C: Yes, before

Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

came in that de Gaulle had decided not to devalue the franc. That was a surprising develop- ment, but not ruled out in the briefing we had given him. didn't know what action he would take. statement that he would not devalue. we had a further

Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

thirty years ago when that took place quite often, but I believe it was as a result of very considerable action on his part in soliciting political support and backing. In my own case, I did not do that. I left it to be decided. LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reynolds -- I -- 2 was the key to legislative action on the Hill. G: Do you know why you were selected for this assignment? Had you had experience in working [in this area]? R: I had

Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Abel--I--7 A: He had done it in the beginning. ~~ere he was--I suppose--technically right; blockade is one of a possible range of warlike actions. But to have said that a blockade was necessarily an act of war at that moment

Oral history transcript, John Ben Shepperd, interview 1 (I), 12/30/1968, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

stages of the war and that was more of a holding action than anything else before I went into the service. Then when I got out of the service in 1946 I was elected a vice president of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce. And then the next

Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 2 (II), 1/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, there was tremendous change in attitude in industry of both the polluting industries and the industries-the R&D kind of industries who are interested in getting into the action--with respect to working with the government. That's just another example of the sort

Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)

[The Negro Family: The Case for National Action] at just the time the conference was being anticipated, somewhere between the time Johnson made his Howard University speech and, what he must have regretted more than once, rashly promised this conference
Daniel Patrick Moynihan's involvement in the White House "To Fulfill These Rights" conference; Moynihan's report "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action;" deciding who would be invited to speak at the conference; Fleming's career and how

Oral history transcript, James W. Gulick, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

house, goes simply to the point that, assulning Haritime had gone under DOT, you \vould have had in one agency the ship side; airlines which are nm.] under FAA safety regulations; the St. Lawrence Seaway, which is a small piece of the action

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of people. It's a conservative [organization] like the Americans for Democratic Action on the left. And the second way was in anti-communist seminars. Now, there was a little flurry and some news about that and some complaining in the press and arguing

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

really--because it looked up to this stage of the game impossible--one really along with the fact that the Senator's father had been a famous physician and so on and was the first fellow in North America to suture the human heart, in Wetumpka, Alabama

Oral history transcript, Robert F. McMahon and Mark T. Muller, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in a couple or so weeks and having lunch, and I think it was Ben Green brought over this tall Navy commander, nonrated, and I--my immediate thought was, "Well, I know that maybe the Navy is about due to get into action here with us, but why would they send

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Let's talk about crises and the management of crises, your action in them, the degree of presidential involvement, the degree

Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 what you might call contingency action. Ordinarily, we only join the Navy on a full-time basis in times of national emergency. Now, we work with them in a good many programs

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Voice of America. Frank Stanton was just a sort of adviser to the President; I don't think he had an official position then. He may have been chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Information. He became that later, in any event, but whether

Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

that this was going to be lessened by any individual action. As a result of that, by memorandum to the departments, he indicated that so far as scientific and technological programs in the air pollution field were concerned, he was charging this office to give him

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: RUFUS PHILLIPS INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Phillips' office, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 G: What were you doing in Laos? P: I was asked to go up there and start something that was called Civic Action. The Lao government

Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

literature worldwide that indeed cigarette smoking was a serious hazard to health and it ought to be recognized and remedial action taken. He agreed with that and asked the Surgeon General and the Public Health Service to put together an LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and be involved in the whole range of military operations, especially the regional force and popular force operations. That's at the company-sized units and platoon-sized units. And all the civic action aspects. In other words, a whole range of both military

Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to try to keep any continuity on this thing. F: No, no. B: I just want to talk as it comes to me. I did go and look up the 1948 election. The Democratic primary of course had no Republican opposition. You take for instance in the primary here
and the involvement of Judge Clarence Martens, Coke Stevenson, and George Parr; Bean's 1947 House of Representatives campaign; Bean's relationship to Judge Roy Bean; Bean's proposed legislation to raise taxes on sulphur, oil, and gas in 1947; the 1956 state Democratic

Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

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 14 actions taken then or thereafter, I'm not about

Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of legislation where domestic business is involved, this department and this bureau is not given a major part of the action ; therefore, we play a secondary role . different . Of course, it's debatable whether it should be I'm sure many would disagree

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the poverty program, kind of what survived of the community action agencies. We ought to get into the poverty program. Even though it was put in place while I was still in the Pentagon, I was involved in it and in what happened later. On the community action

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a kind of continuous session that went on for that week while we were trying to decide what action to take. He came into the meetings. He said relatively little. He didn't take a dominant part at all in the discussions. The rest of us did to a much

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

helpful to the government, he should report to Washington. G: Can you recall about when you took this action? T: No, I just remember my action when I discovered it. G: Is this when you were chairman of the Joint Chiefs? T: No. Sometime when army

Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. He obviously did, as indicated by his actions subsequent to that time. McS: I think That was the main theme of the whole two days, actually. Were you surprised at being invited down to the Ranch? Or had you come to know him fairly well just

Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

a presentation to the cabinet which just ended up with zero as far . • J as any action was concerned. [I remember] the contrast that we felt with the Congress, which was getting extremely interested in push; ng very hard, Congressman [Kenneth] Roberts from

Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

are Democrats or Republicans. DM: That is true. When I first came here, old Hatton Sumners was the congressman from Dallas, and that was, well, twenty eight years ago. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

spend $500; if it's $100, they'd spend $100. M: Now, the other side of this coin, of course, is to encourage foreigners to tour in America. J: That's correct. M: Did you do anything at that time to encourage foreign travel? J: Well

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

/loh/oh Helms -- II -- 9 Vietnamese and staying behind the scenes, had been advising them on political warfare and covert action and things of this kind. So when he went back again, was sent back again and wrote this report in 1961, obviously

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the signing ceremony, trying to bring in everybody we could think of in the various transportation interests including all of the modes, some of the suppliers, and such organizations as the Transportation Association of America and the National Freight Traffic

Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and '64 and so forth and so on. M: What happens to bureaucrats who push an idea like that so hard and lose? What happened to the theologians? Did the President take some kind of action against them later? L: No, one of the fellows who had been

Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

have to write them a memorandum saying that someone had committed a federal crime--please investigate it, because that's the only form which evoked action. So, I don't think it was just a matter of attitude although I think the attitude of Mr. Hoover

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of a particular bureau and [because of] the failure of the bureau to take certain action, or the taking of certain actions that were detrimental to whatever matter was involved, you'd try to do something about it. And it would finally lead you to the conclusion

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

House level then? T: Generally so, yes. The National Export Expansion Council recommendations did . go to the President; he received them. Jack Connor and I and Joe Fowler in 1966 took these Action Committee reports and the three chairmen

Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that they've done the wrong thing. I used to be a very timid person and even up until I was sixty years of age very cautious about expressing an opinion. But the one thing that would loosen my indignation and drive me into action was somebody doing

Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was pressing for joint action in resolving the crisis in the Middle East, Kosygin seems to have been more interested in Vietnam. Was this your--? K: Yes, very much so. Vietnam occupied much more time than the Middle East G: People have talked and written

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that was pending in a committee, why, we would just call the committee clerk or somebody over there and find out what the situation was, when it was going to come up for hearing or whether it had or what action had been taken, and we'd write back and say it's

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the picture, and then we'd try to think of how could it have been done better. And one of the programs that we looked at which had been a very special program and all was the combined action platoons, that is, the CAP teams--that was a special marine program

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the, the French to us, Mr. Erhard and indeed the MLF was dead before there's with on !Ludwii} wasn't, and supporting in not always the MLF. wisdom to say that learn issues the killing action Fowler were. government, firm and tough M: with we

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