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Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the suggestions of Mr. Stevenson that were not taken. But I think he agreed with the final action, so I don't think there was any real decision that way. But during this thing, as it was going along, there were clearly differences of views put forth. I think
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • they were thrown into action in a distant country against a very elusive enemy. But fortunately, beginning in 1962 under President Kennedy, our Armed Forces had been directed to prepare themselves for this kind of combat. Hence they entered Vietnam LBJ
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of action more people than the enemy was capable of recruiting from in-country sources and infiltrating from North Vietnam. G: Do you know what the infiltration rate would have been at about that time? M: Without looking back through the documents, I can
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • we got the Bulgarians' agreement just a couple of weeks after Dorset's departure. And then we signed the agreement itself early, I believe, in July, soon after the fourth of July. P: Did you see evidence of an independence of action in Bulgaria
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to manipulation, and I'm sure most people, commanders, would like to report as many killed in action and so forth as possible. So, I think it was probably an unfortunate thing to get into, actually. I don't recall our trying to do that in World War II or World War
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . It was also decided to give the student cadre constructive credits toward graduation from the course, so that the time that they were actually doing civic actions and relief work in Saigon, they would actually be moving toward graduation in the normal time
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, and totally rebuild it, everything: transportation, schools, medical care, housing, parks, recreation, everything, streets. And say, "Look, you can do it. You can rebuild the cities of America." It was quite a dream
Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to This action was performed to The area was wide-open land with no place to cover the parachute. To reach Eddie I walked through the narrow creek of water. cold. It was On reaching Eddie I learned he had a possible broken shoulder. He was not aware of how
Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • sessions out of which program actions could be taken, where groups would meet sequentially over a period of three or four years, and then, the subject having been brought to a point that seemed adequate, it would be dropped and other subjects would
Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • an awful lot of heat and he wanted some action. And out of that came such things as the appointment of [James] Killian as the first science adviser in the intimate areas of the White House around the president instead of off to one side, and the National
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 2 (II), 5/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • not talking I suppose, because I'm not really in a position to talk about, what it means for America's position in the world. I have my own personal ideas, but I'm not really a particularly expert witness on that subject As far as the army is concerned, I
Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , it was never approved by Fulbright's committee, the thing was postponed . about the war and the cost of the war . and action did not take place . of this . M: He was? B: Oh yes, Anyway, and they were worried Congress adjourned Senator Fulbright
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , but no action is likely to happen unless somebody pushes it. When we got back, we started to push. And as a result of this, a telegram did go out to Lodge a day or two after we got back which was pretty forthcoming. To be sure it contained an awful lot
Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Dean -- I -- 12 Wells County, and George Parr in Duval County, and Manuel Raymond in Laredo. They were like Chinese warlords, each with his own domain. G: Now then, let's go to 1948. You had assumed some prominence in the Democratic
  • in Precinct 13 in 1948; Dean's role as county attorney in the 1948 Senate election; the makeup and role of the county Democratic Executive Committee; Coke Stevenson going to Texas State Bank to examine the poll list; the location of the ballot boxes; the grand
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , of course, was a free worker and so were the wives of a lot of his staff members. We enjoyed it. I learned so much. That was where I first found out that America was a melting pot, was to address the poll tax list of the Tenth District. Because you would
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • going to sell off some of the stockpile there and take actions that would try to discourage this and here was a material that was needed in defense and the war effort. Do you recall your work here? 23 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with candidates in order to avoid any exposure to an action for libel or slander. After the war and again when I was not that much of a factor, the desire was to restore ownership to the corporate entity. Now this was pretty well necessary in order to protect
Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , grade 4, or something like that: Community Action, Job Corps, and something else. VISTA, Anyway, I guess I was the first of the persons to fill. F: You got there in October, and you divided your own office into four or five groups. You had Bennetta
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • and was defeated two times. H: Do you think the legislation passed under the Johnson Administration had an effect on the redistricting of Houston to the effect that it did provide you an opportunity to run in a single-member district? J: That was the action
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and convey to the United States of America all rights, title, and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews conducted with my late husband Donald J. Cronin, on September 14, 1989; December 4, 1989; December 14, 1989; February
  • Factors that led to Lister Hill's decision to not run for re-election in 1968; Cronin's reaction to LBJ's 1968 announcement that he would not run for re-election; public opinion regarding Vietnam; Hill's support for the administration's actions
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was Justice Jackson's assistant, so I was the one to brief them on Rudolph Hess and his actions prior to that for several weeks. The psychiatrists were to watch him and his habits, eccentricities, whatever they were, and make notes of them for not over ten
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • The newspapermen had gone on strike in Oslo in mid-speech. F: The Norwegian, you mean? Mc: The Norwegian press had been given a position that was very bad. It was against the light and on the wrong side of where the action was, and in LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in this whole folding of the legislative process, that so many instances where the department itself was lukewarm to the legislation despite all the prodding we could give it, the action moved up to the White House. Then in the search later we found a champion
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It wasn't just the fifty thousand people that were killed; it was the millions that were injured, which meant that every man, woman and child, every person, every voter, every constituent in America had a friend or a relative or knew somebody that had been
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the civilized world, and everybody always ends up being so surprised that the action has happened. But anyway, that's a personal aside. G: Did he realize that this would make it impossible for him to go to Russia now, public opinion? B: Well, I think
  • LBJ's attempts at negotiation with the USSR and North Vietnam; LBJ's treatment of Hubert Humphrey in the final months of LBJ's administration; Humphrey's personality; LBJ's decision to not attend the Democratic National Convention and support
Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . authorize treatment. This focus could take other actions to Well, it wasn't needed; when Medicare was imple- mented this service was used very little. G: Was there a fear that doctors would not be sufficiently receptive to Medicare itself to make
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • it, Walter Heller and Dave Bell got the President to send a memo or a directive to the Department of Agriculture saying that no actions would be taken with respect to price supports or related matters without first having them run by the council
Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , that's right. M: So this would be October 167 then. P: It was July-- M: ICJ in December 166--is that the right date for it? P: 166. October. The ICJ decision was in July 166. was in October, 166. The General Assembly action The decision
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , was that either the government lacked expertise or the problem really had not been given sufficient attention within the government, and there was an awful lot of expertise that we could call upon to advise on action which should be taken in their area
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a charter; this was worldwide responsibil ity. M: You were not specializing in Indochina affairs at that time? S: No. As a matter of fact, the day before the assassination we had just come back from Latin America. We'd been down in Latin America. I
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , a Vice President of Time Incorporated and President of Time-Life Broadcast, Inc., served in the Government for 20 years. During his Government service, he served for 13 years with the Voice of America and 7 years overseas with the USIS in India
Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DANIEL BOONE PORTER INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Colonel Boone's residence, Belton, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: The most important thing in the experience of America in the early sixties was the adviser relationship with the Vietnamese
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in State Department language, and he said very impatiently, "I don't mean all that. I mean what are we doing--what are we actually doing?Send me a list of the actual actions that we're taking under the Alliance for Progress and what actions the Latin
Oral history transcript, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on important problems, but the studies seemed to be ending up in the files without any perceptible actions resulting from them. For that reason and others, I felt that the organization of the Defense Department wasn't satisfactory and something ought
Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • they are concerned with so that we do try to cover all of Latin America, all of Western Europe, and about five or six countries in Asia. � � � � � � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org M: B: M: B: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • is," and that's when the call went out all over North America, "Find him!" And the FBI officers, for example, in Rapid City, not knowing I was going to be flying to Washington, said: "I would suggest that you and your family LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • in many people's minds as to, first, whether Wilbur Cohen would become a lame duck with essentially a caretaker role until after the election; and secondly, whether his interest would be so deeply in the areas of his past interest, his actions would be so
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on hotheaded instructions from Washington~ ~- I burned into action by the American press, to get on with it and tell this guy to apologize and eat crow and do things that he couldn't possibly afford to do as president of the country, which also would
Oral history transcript, Guy S. Meloy III, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on a village. Now, we killed a lot of VC in villages, but we didn't do any of the things that you hear about or read about; very effective. G: This is a disturbing problem. Time and again, you see after-action reports in which there are so many KIAs [killed
  • ); the connection between political and military actions in Vietnam.
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • as fast as we could. Added a group or two, expanded the groups that existed, and tried to have an element in the Pacific, an element in Central and Latin America, an element in Europe, the Tenth, an element in general reserve at Fort Bragg. I believe we