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Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of a Westinghouse bid on a nuclear desalting plant, more sympathetic treatment within the IMF, the IRB, and the New York banks. Then there were certain political items that the Egyptians were very interested in. One, they asked that we help mediate their diffi

Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of on a Saturday afternoon, who's a good friend of mine, Walter Krawiec, K-R-A-W-I-E-C, who was the editorial cartoonist for the Polish Daily News, but who is a very talented artist in his own right and did a lot of fine work. I called Walter and I said, "Walter

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

officials were waiting any changes effected by the new administration? 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

Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was very bombastic, of the times with him ; he was running with and he was running against Truman . and he Eisenhower I think really what defeated McFarland was the absolute opposition Phoenix . soon of the two daily papers It was sort of a pre

Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there was much chance of it passing in the Senate, and we were probably going to have to wait til next year. I immediately got on the phone with Bridges. He was up in New Hampshire at the time. He indicated that he would come back to Washington. I had an FBI

Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

rule. ever had one in Wyoming. I don't believe we've I recall, particularly, as the roll call of states approached Wyoming, New Jersey, which had originally passed, came over and asked if we would defer to them when it came Wyoming's time to cast

Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

and was elected on the Democratic ticket, of course. I served from January 1949 until January 1963, at which time I was appointed secretary of state by the new governor, John Connally. I was his top appointee during the time that he was gover- nor--well

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, because it was a complicated program. You couldn't run it in that neat, orderly, compact way that administrators like to run old-line programs. This was a new, dynamic, everchanging kind of program that required shifting and hauling as you went forward

Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

think that he discussed it almost daily, probably, with Senator Stennis and men like that. I went up and testified, as I recall, by request of the delegation, against the legislation. I don't know whether I saw Senator Johnson

Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

along in there. I had worked as a copy desk man, as a news editor, and so on. PB: Mostly as a newS editor. Now I want to ask you to do a rather difficult thing. I want you to go back some thirty years in your memory to the time when you first met

Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

attitude about poverty, how it should be dealt with? A: Well, I guess the closest insight I had came about as a result of a series of articles written by a man named Homer Bigart in the New York Times. He wrote a series of articles about poverty

Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 1-- 2 than a full-time job if you were out of the university. So I worked for the International News Service, which is now UPI, under a fellow named Vann Kennedy, whom a lot of people in the LBJ family know. He now lives in Corpus Christi where

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

got acquainted over that He also went out to get the support of some of the smaller newspapers. He didn't rely on the Dallas News, which he of course didn't have. But he wor ked hard on papers like [those] owned by Mr. Houston Ha.r te. papers

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this for that period of time it's awfully hard to remember. As I said to you the other day, one of the greatest capacities of the human mind is the ability to forget. You have to learn how to erase so that you can add new things in; otherwise, the computer gets

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and it just kind of worked right into the daily routine. I would say there was nothing tumultuous about it or nothing shocking about it. It just went on, and Johnson kidded everybody a lot about it. G: How so? How would he--? 1 LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Ebba Jansen and Alvin J. Jansen, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

into where there was a rain storm in the mountains. In Arizona they told us when we got into New Nexico the arroyos would have planks over it. But otherwise I'd drive the car and the other three girls would get down in the bottom of the gulley or the arroyo

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

into urging a quickie tax cut. But it was at that time, I think, that he indicated that he was going to propose tax legislation in the new session of Congress--and, of course, this was the new Congress--beginning in January 1963. There were intensive

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, pretty weather . about 75° , and the sun was out . 17 It was a good San Antonio day ; it was Cantinflas would get up and say, "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year," and he would sit down . But this wowed the crowd and they loved to see him

Oral history transcript, Julian J. Ewell, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Assistance Command, Vietnam, which was Westmoreland's headquarters and then Abrams'--required a fairly voluminous set of statistical reports. I can't recall all of them, but I would guess you had to report on about ten different things daily or weekly

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Lee School. I University and to Harvard Business I got s ornewhat disturbed about Mr. Roosevelt l s packing of the SupJ;lerne Court. ,\ After I left Harvard and went to work in New York just before the war, I was introduced to Wendell Wilkie

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Congratulations on your new degree of infallibility. It is richly deserved." He was promoted into two stars for this job. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

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

in awhile there was an effort to set them up on some sort of a schedule, but it always seemed to me to dissipate. I believe that there were routine and periodic, probably daily, meetings 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the committee when you did, though, didn't he? S: The committee was disbanded. Roy Cohn didn't get along. Catholic. A new committee came up. Kennedy and Bobby was very anti-communist, a devoted He had discovered some things for McCarthy, about Chinese

Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

[telephone] I had friends here, I used to know the Gores very well. I used to visit the Gores. came here and then married in New York and we had an apartment here. I We lived in Pittsburgh but we always had an apartment here in the old Willard Hotel. F

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

it up. I think also this was around Thanksgiving time, which gave it some special relevance in the press. Another category of letters for release would be the Vietnam mail. Some of these cases actually came to our attention through the news media. I

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and the executive branch. F: Were you privy--you know Ernest McFarland lost in '52 and they needed a new leader for the Democrats, and after some backing and filling Senator Johnson became then the Minority Leader. Were you in on any of that talk with the Senator

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the country, testing the water. I had never been with him in a campaign for office in Texas. I had never campaigned with him. so it was a new experience to see how much he enjoyed it. He just had to reach the people, you know. The Secret Service had one

Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of President Kennedy? P: Not as a presidential appointee, as a so-called administrative appointee of Fowler Hamilton, the new administrator of AID. M: Then you were in this agency then during the course of the Kennedy Presidency, and have remained

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

]. there are jokes on me that wouldn't hurt. I guess I remember one time - -I gues s a lot of people know it, too--but when he would get his new shoes, he would ask me to wear them and break them in for him. So one day when we were at the White House, I met him

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

here, that we were trying something new, things were going well, we certainly had our difficulties. G: Have you ever read Halberstam's book, One Very Hot Day? M: Yes. G: Do you recognize the people in there? M: No, not really, and I

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, dumb, academic questions and finding out who knew what and so on. So I guess I was probably the first 001 analyst to go overseas, back in 1950. I went to London to set up the exchange of NIEs, the National Intelligence Estimates, which were new

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

to change the system . The system was changed, and in thirty days thereafter a general election was held and I lost under the new system . wide plurality at-large election of nine men . It was a city Just the mathematics of the vote, the Negro vote

Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: INTERVIEWEE: MICHAEL FORRESTAL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Forrestal's .office, Shearman and Sterling, 53 Wall Street, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You're Michael Forrestal. You were a Far Eastern expert with the National Security

Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

things about a new program is that it succeed and demonstrate successes." And I said, "If that means reducing the scope and size of the program, then that's what we'd better do." Well, it turned out we didn't have to do that because, again

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: It was 441. S: I'll bet it was almost the same squadron. believe. It was Destroyer Squadron 13, I The Wilkes has a familiar ring. F: We were a part of MacArthur's Navy at one time. S: Probably you were ahead, because I got aboard the Woolsey at New

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Relations Committee] which Humphrey chaired from about 1958, I believe, on until he left the Senate. So she was involved in foreign policy to that degree. handled that subcommittee. She She is now living in New York and keeps running for office up

Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Rayburn had gone to Bonham. The telephone rang, and he was on the line. He said he just wanted to let me know in case anybody up at the press gallery might be interested that he had just called the Bonham Daily Favorite and had announced that he

Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

any overtures toward you before this? E: I can't remember. Billy Lee was working for Ronnie Dugger on the Texas Observer, which was a very new, young little paper. Billy Lee was making such a small amount of money--he was doing really good work

Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Flynn -- I -- 2 force; the exodus of enlisted guys had finished; new guys were coming in, and we were starting to sort out other missions, useful missions. And then about the next event