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Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Boyd L. Rasmussen, Jerry O'Callaghan, and Irving Senzel, group interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of action who got things accomplished. That was certainly the LBJ 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

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and as we kr.ew how in ·putting together a presidential p~ogram. that carried over in terms of the implementing and the policy ir::plications that flowed from the various programs. If I were picking a piece of the action, that is the one I would have

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

police-type action, and perhaps that's the wrong choice of words, and 10 and behold, here the Vietnamese who were running down that--what did they call that Laos--? G: The Ho Chi Minh Trail? C: --the Ho Chi Minh Trail, claiming they weren't, and we

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

out of. We would invariably, after a big fight, within a month or so, overrun an outfit and capture their after-action reports. And they were good at after-action reports. Boy, they told you exactly what went on, right down to the last weapon and so

Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)

as he started to take action, as he met with people and it became a news story and he reacted to it. I think he reacted very swiftly, very positively. Probably I'm here alive today because of some of the things he did; that's my thought during the years

Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

really did treat the Vice President with great respect and so forth, but they never made any use of him. And Blair and MacArthur, one a pro and one a non-pro, both said to the Vice President by their actions primarily and to some extent in their words

Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XIII -- 3 agree." So we were moving to get rid of the stockpile as a matter of easing the budget pressure and we didn't think we needed it. We got essentially talk and no action from the aluminum industry

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the private sector at everything, and one, and I sent the President a memo on March sixteenth of actions we were taking, about to take, or possibilities, and one was that as far as government spending went, we would cut government spending for construction

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was as careful as anybody to be sure that the United States maintained sufficient control over actions taken by the Chinese Nationalists with weapons supplied by the United States to be sure that Chiang Kai-shek wouldn't get us into a war with the mainland

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Chairman Ackley described yesterday as soaring profits and with the very difficult Vietnam situation might require additional military action, moving at this time the Bethlehem people to leave themselves open to charges of profiteering." Actually ... G

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

more comfortable working with him and knowing what his expectations were? C: Yes. I mean I did. I guess he used to say, or somebody used to say, "Use young men for action and older men for wisdom," and I was certainly one of his action guys

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but I don't have any sense of him being a significant achiever. G: You don't think that part of the action was directed at him to pull the stool out from under him? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

King was doing? C: Absolutely. There was an effort to keep them on board, to keep them focused on the importance of legislating, and federal action, and state legislative action, if any of that were possible. I think we probably thought, by and large

Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

: Well, I think they took them seriously, of course, because that's where the action was. 15 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

on this mass of decisions and being able to handle it when he was out of town or otherwise engaged, but Mr. McNamara dealt with all the substantive detail. For Mr. Clifford this was not the right course of action, and that is not what he did. What he did

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it was made and that sort of thing. But I don't believe we got into rubber very deeply, because we could never get a satisfactory report. But the committee did take individual actions, like that business in Akron. G: There was also the question of alcohol

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on the same side from the moment--except for the increase in discount rate action in December of 1965, Fowler and Martin were basically on the same side of economic policy once the Vietnam buildup started in July of 1965. They both felt we were going too fast

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, get the clipping from the Post. It's a William Chapman story, I notice. No, it must have been related to the House action. I thought it might have been related to the conference. "Perhaps in the garment district, a minimum wage increase." Then we had

Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

back to the Pentagon. I went to the Pentagon in the operations business, and I was in the Ops directorate, and during the first part of the time I was in the Ops directorate was when Castro was coming to power, and I was an action officer in the Latin

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

relationship. M: Do you remember or can you tell me anything more about the seeming disagreement in timing in 1965] G: Well, it was clear that some restrictive action, some restraint, through the instrumentalities of the federal government, was necessary