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Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the differences. I guess you are familiar with this English poet who said, "I live in a sea of words where the nouns and the adjectives flow. Where the verbs speak of action which never takes place and the sentences come and go." The division in the commission

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

under house arrest. They could just shove him off to a side and not give him copies of all the telegrams, and he was just as much out of action playing tennis in Saigon as he would have been under house arrest in Dalat. The other four were more active

Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

for two and a half years the organizer and chief of the Far East Division on the so-called action side, that is to say, political-psychologicalparamilitary side, with Indochina as one of my areas of responsibility. We had a very modest program with respect

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

is im?ortant, although it may have only a relatively minor importance. But with all those qualifiers I gave her as much as I coulq. Z :z:ay have, however, referred to the President's action innnetl~~=ely upon coraing prestdent. I don't know if I told

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on the adoption of the agenda. But there was never any subsequent action taken, not because of any lack of initiative in this regard by President Johnson or the Johnson Administration, but rather because the Russians didn't want to have LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

recreational area is to provide optimum recreational opportunities in a natural environment as contrasted with a national park, the objective of which is to preserve a vignette of early America. On the one hand you do this best by getting private, local

Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the repo rts on that. MG: Mrs. Williams, didn't you go into action then? HW: Well, we waited at the ranch to see what was going to happen after that. I think we finally got the word that they had gone hack to Washington 1 so thetl we got a flight out

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

speech in the U.N. which I had a central hand in drafting, but he came out with a big development program there which the Middle East governments didn't pick up. But in 1958 Vice President Nixon had a miserable time on a trip to Latin America. In Caracas

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of America, USIA, during the late 1940s and 1950s. Z: That is essentially correct. Is that correct? Let me summarize it very quickly. I was with the Voice of Arneri ca from 1948 through 1961 , and my final position there was as program manager, which

Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

antipersonnel weapons against harmless villagers. R: Where was that dropped, in the North or in the South? G: In the North. R: As I said, if he wanted to believe a North Vietnamese communist over Of course, this was later-- Americans, only in America

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

out to be just poppycock, not even good rumors, and the other half would have some substantiation and some foundation in fact. And where we could substantiate it, why, we would take action against the LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Administration was the Bureau of the Budget an important factor in government organization. It was just impossible to get action. The irony was that the Rockefeller Committee,* which was headed by Nelson Rockefeller, with Arthur Flemming, now President

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, if not an intimate, at least a friend and of increasing intimacy, with some of the young people in the New Deal, some of those who kept the lights burning all night in those offices while they rolled up their sleeves to remake America, so to speak. It was a time

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

-price developments--it was one of my concerns. The steel story really starts not in the spring of 1962, but back in the summer of 1961. There was a letter sent by President Kennedy to the heads of the, I think) twelve major steel companies in America

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

action on a cabinet department probably since the first Congress set up initial departments in 1787. M: Last time you gave some hint as to why this occurred, that being the people in the executive branch going up and to testify for it, people like

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

shillelagh and take my proper place in the hard, cnlel world of action! That, I have done five ~imes since I've been at the University of Texas -- for periods varying from six months to six years. PAUl. BOlTON: Whi.'.t He are int·crested in of conrse

Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

don't know him intimately enough to have a close first-hand knowledge of Johnson, the man, as an individual. r~ost of my opinions are based on seeing him in action publicly or being in a group where he is the principal figure and that kind of thing

Oral history transcript, C.E. "Curley" Doyle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

such an interest to me, and it didn't become apparent in any of his actions that I know of. G: Well, there's an indication that he may have participated in efforts to secure legislative appropriations for the college and that he worked with President [Cecil

Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of articles that he apparently had scanned or had been brought to his attention and he was raising questions one right after the other. The scope of his scanning, if you will, was most impressive to someone who hadn't seen him in action. I think the other

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

all." And he [changed]. for anyone. two minutes later, of course, But I mean I don't think he had very much good to say But, on the other hand, his actions belied this, I mean held keep on trusting people. M: Could you tell that he made a~y

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of that third term issue, the conventions, and Lyndon Johnson's role there? P: No, I didn't attend conventions in 1940, and I guess I wasn't taking too big a hand in things. No. I don't have any particular recollec- tion of Lyndon's actions there. He

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to stay only for a short period of time, was that I figured I was not going to be able to complete a Ph.D. anyway before the war engulfed the United States. All of us thought it was coming. Mr. Roosevelt was taking so many actions to aid the British

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

be extremely exciting because I would be where the action was, that my skills would deteriorate unless I was involved in medical action. Whereas I thought so much of him and Bird as friends, I felt that my role as a physician would diminish and, except

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to be solved, so he dropped everything and addressed himself to it. I don't think you should write any significance into his [actions], at least I wouldn't, other than that that would come from any politician adopting a position that has to be taken, ought
LBJ’s speech class and debate team at Central High School in Houston; LBJ being action-oriented; LBJ’s work with, and loyalty to, Richard Kleberg; Roy Miller; Senator Alvin Wirtz; Little Congress; LBJ’s short time in law school; Maury Maverick

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that he bought a few hats and things for different ones, for what reason, I don't know. G: Senator Wirtz would? J: Yes. G: He was a good 1awyer, I suppose? J: He was an excellent lawyer. G: Did you ever see him in action in the courtroom? LBJ

Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pike P: ~~ I ~~ 26 Self-immolation is an ancient gesture in the Buddhist religion as a protest against actions by the state seen as against religion. Buddhists did

Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, you might say, my course of action--which incidentally I think was quite close to the course recommended by the Joint Chiefs, except possibly for stopping the bombing altogether-whether we would have been any farther advanced today, no one can say. I

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

These forces also were useful in civil action programs which we are currently conducting in South America. P: How much did the Tet Offensive set uS back in our progress, and why could we not prevent it? R: The Tet Offensive, I think, set us back

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, they needed somebody to coordinate the action and honcho the thing along so that there would be a result of some kind in a fairly short time. That's the sort of thing that I was doing. However, you run into some very odd things. For example, Mrs. Cabot Lodge
people out of Vietnam in 1975 and Jacobson's regrets over U.S. actions toward the Vietnamese; lessons learned from the Vietnam War; Jacobson's view of author Frank Snepp; what Jacobson would have done differently in evacuating people from Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, a backgrounder . And so we sat down there and Roger Tubby was saying, "Unless SEATO can agree on a course of action"--I should explain, at this time the Russians were airlifting stuff into the Plain of Jars . And he said, "Unless SEATO can agree to take action

Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a counterinsurgency plan of action, which had never been implemented. And I think he was very skeptical of the ability of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. That was my next report We spoke of training of the staff, and all cases were completed and final action had been recorded on them. At that time, within that year in the next six months, the equipment that they worked with [wasn't adequate]. ting papers

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. That is what I mean by peripheral. I did not have control of that action, it belonged in Harry's office and I was simply there to help. It was a very closely guarded process. Now, after some six weeks we arrived at a weekend at the e.nd of March

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

came in February. R: That's right. M: Can you lead up to that and the circumstances which led to taking that action? That becomes one of the main points of attack by critics in later times. R: I'm not a very good witness on the actual beginning

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for civil rights. So we all had a reason for being there to help the veteran. And what came out of the task force as a whole, I think, was a fairly good package of predominantly administrative actions rather than legislation, although there was a substantial
to them; Justice Department support for the centers; Wozencraft's role on the task force; disagreements over the Federal Trade Commission's and Securities Exchange Commission's (SEC) authority to take legal action independently from the Justice Department

Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

turned out it was perfectly clear that he did. I do not recall ever talking to him or trying to suggest any course of action to him. I was a lawyer. I stayed away as much as they'd let me from the Hill on this matter. I certainly would not have considered

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

have done. You mention in this memo of November 1967 the budget totals, and this is dramatic, and it should be highly exciting and satisfying to anyone interested in the quality of life in America, and yet it always seemed to be so difficult

Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

moving and so right in this area. Also, as an indication of the President's thinking, I would refer anyone to the report of the third conference in June of '66 called "Targets for Action." And, again, his words deeply moved the three or four hundred

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

crossed swords, so to speak, with Governor Rainey at the University of Texas simply on a constitutional basis, which most of Mr. Stevenson's actions were based on. He was a great constitutional lawyer, a good lawyer, and he adhered in all of his

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the aircraft? General He said, "Brown, did you let They had to jump out of our own." He said, "Goddamn it, go find out." and leaves the table. Abrams says, Brown said, So he jumps up In the meantime, the action officers and the chickens and whatnot

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