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Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it for a 15 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Barr -- IV -- 16 long time: from the Eisenhower years to the Kennedy years, the Johnson
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on several projects for President Kennedy. In the mid-fifties I had also come down and met President Eisenhower on an anti-inflation program that the Advertising Council was running. But I found being one of fifteen young men seated in two rows
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • had, where the troops were. I remember suggesting to the President that the Park Police might be an immediate quick reserve, and he called over there and got David Black, the new, the brand new Under Secretary. And when you conceive of a guy who has
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Johnson, and I think to most of us at that point it had become clear that Bobby had it in mind to challenge Johnson for the nomination in 1968. I remember up at Camp David at some point, maybe late 1962 or maybe the spring of 1963, again we were swimming
Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • nationally among others who were planning for problems which the medical schools and related health activities were facing. In 1956 during the Eisenhower Administration I was invited to membership on the National Advisory Health Council as a lay member
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • or had that control of the House of Representatives. I And Lyndon used to go over there all the time. But think the initiative and the whole thrust, the kind of momentum of everything--I think Johnson was the guy by that time. I think Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . For example, the invasion of Normandy in Europe, which General Eisenhower led, that invasion was planned for years. I mean at least two years were put into the planning of that invasion. I'm not saying that was wrong; I'm perfectly willing to say it was right
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • latio nsh ip, bu t I be l ieve he could g i ve you some ins ight on t h e Eisenhowe r relationshi ps and so forth. I think he would b e the bes t of the l i vin g pe op le from the E isenhowe r Administ r at i on . Sherman Adams --di d Sh erman Ad
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • COHEN INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB DATE: May 10, 1969 PLACE: Mr. Cohen's home, Silver Spring, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 M: This is the third session with Wilbur Cohen. I am at his home in Silver Spring sitting on the front porch. It's a beautiful
  • Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Dunn -- I -- 9 part of the Republican ticket. He was very close to Mr. Eisenhower over his whole period and a very different kind of ambassador to the United Nations than we have now, for example, and have had since that time. So, he had a vast store
  • staff; Edward Lansdale; General Taylor; Robert McNamara; David Nes; Rufus Phillips; Charles Bohannon; Lucien Conein; Dunn's eyewitness to the Diem coup; Pham Ngoc Thao; PLF (VC); Article 32 investigation of Dunn; Father DeJaeger; Tran Van Don; Big Minh
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • this is something again the public never quite appreciates. For example, Eisenhower had never had an attack before, you see, but he had it during the presidency. And I would estimate that if we could look ahead three hundred years from now at presidents who
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for Stevenson. I had supported Stevenson" as everybody else had, in '52, and in '56 I was one of his co-chairmen. But I think I might have gladly gone to Harriman on a second ballot because I didn't feel Stevenson could possibly beat Eisenhower. I didn't know
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . President Eisenhower had aborted the case in the last week of his Administration and sent it back to the CAB so that the route structure in the Pacific was very much the same as it was at the end of World War II. decided. President Johnson thought the case
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and Commerce being joined . Of course, he must have been told by Wirtz that I was the only one who opposed it . And he and I had rather frank discussions across the table,to the point where, on one occasion, David Sullivan of the Building Trades tried
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , then they have to come along and say "But all is not lost.We have a solution." That's the format that has always been used. Guys like Eisenhower who philosophized about the way "things are pretty good and we don't really have to get too worked up"--they don't
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • you recall an example of this kind of--? R: Well, the best example was landing in an air field in Boise, Idaho, after the Walter Jenkins case had broken. And in talking to the press he made some remark about President Eisenhower having had
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /loh/oh Shriver -- V -- 11 if you said to Eisenhower, "Here are three million men. Use them in Europe." Well, he decides he's going to attack [a] Normandy beach at a certain time with two million of those men. He doesn't distribute them all down
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the staff. There was no justification for having an agricultural economist as a member of the council, even though that had been the tradition under Eisenhower and Truman, I guess. F: Did the President ever voice the opinion that in one sense agriculture
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this. But they didn't get around, by any means, to all the industry. And that was about it. No rate regulation, virtually. G: Would you attribute this to simply a more laissez-faire attitude on behalf of the Eisenhower Administration? Or did it go back even before
Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was originally to have been, I think, a very superficial session but which really did get into the entrails of foreign aid. When we left, David Bell told me he thought this had been perhaps the most useful discussion with the President on foreign aid that he
  • Meeting LBJ in 1963; Robert McNamara; Dean Rusk; David Bell; Ralph Dungan; James Farley; Alfred Gruenther; Eugene Black; John Gardner; General Advisory Committee on Foreign Assistance Programs; James Perkins; Robert Kintner; Kennedy Center
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • David with him. My wife and I spent quite a bit of time that spring with the Johnsons, and this culminated in my being appointed to the Voice of America job. M: Do you recall any other sort of illustrations such as the one you have given me that were
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • through the state, and in a city, I believe it was Dallas, we held a rally, and Senator Johnson read a letter from General Eisenhower, then President, to a prominent Texas Republican, and after the rally was over, I walked up to Senator Johnson and I said
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and his predecessor Dwight Eisenhower said was critical to the free world." That's murder. Anyway, there was everything--The investment was tremendous. And now you get slugged. You get the Tet offensive and all the doves and the doubters who are, as you
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Washington about the importance of Vietnam~ and they were beginning-prior to that, they had pretty much run stories that were critical, and did afterwards, too, from time to time. But gradually in the latter days, the last days of the Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • singing, word came from my family that father was dying, but did not know it. He had terminal cancer. cancelled my engagements and returned home. me the star part in a play, TONIGHT OR NEVER. leaving New York for Europe. I David Belasco had offered I
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • guess on the organizational chart were outside of the realm of my responsibility, but I was there "Call Secretary Udall and talk to him about such-and-such when he said, a park. Find out what the details are of the gift of the Eisenhower farm
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh "One More Story" -- I -- 13 David. They were talking in French, and pretty soon
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a couple of phone calls during this time, probably within a week or two, that came out of nowhere. There was a call from Jim Hagerty, who had been Eisenhower's press secretary and then held a senior position at ABC Television. He said that there was a need
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • several years in the U.S. Attorne y's office, and I must say it was a thorough ly enjoyab le experie nce--the work there. But my boss there, who was David Acheson , United States Attorne y, was appointe d to a new position in the Treasury departm ent which
  • Biographical information; prosecuting White House sit-in demonstrators; Frank Reeves; Howard Reed; Ralph Roberts, clerk of the House, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; David Dellinger and the March on the Pentagon; "Murphy" confidence
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with Bill Brennan, and we sat together in Hudson County, as I recall. He was on our superior court, then on our supreme court, and then he went by appointment of President Eisenhower to the United States Supreme Court. So that at Los Angeles Meyner
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • department. The communications system that's exten- sive and so forth, that's the military aide's department. The air- planes and the helicopters and Camp David, the--well, that's essentially it. The automobiles, the army runs that garage and so forth
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ran into Dr. [George] Burkley, who was President Kennedy's private physician, and he was getting into his car. He'd gotten cut off from the President, too. you give me a ride?" I said, "Will I had known him for years, since Eisenhower days; he'd
Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at [the] State [Department]? RG: At the time that I was a student at the National War College, General Burchinal, Dave [David] Burchinal, who was at that time the deputy chief of staff for plans, programs, and operations of the air force, picked me to go
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)