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

have been organized, but he really put it on the map. the Hill. We had clubs on I don't know vJhether they even exist any more, but they ~"ere very strong in those early years, [clubs] of the donkeys and the elephants. We were called the Burros

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1984 INTERVIEWEE: FREDERICK W. FLOTT INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: The Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Mr. Flott, what was the nature of your responsibility for the Free World Assistance side of our operation? F

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: BARRY ZORTHIAN INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: The Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: All right, sir. When we left off, I believe we were talking about the Tet Offensive, the impact of the Tet Offensive on public opinion and so

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

ten o'clock So I think you can do it. every night. It was sort of a joke around that he'd leave the office and go to the Club Sportif and swim in the afternoons, then he'd take a nap and then he'd go home and go to bed at night. forth. He'd never

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

club-footed cousin, Harpalus, invented the profession in the West. M: . A: That's quite a while • Well, he way. I mean, he made changes and innovations that unless we lose our heads completely in this country will have permanent historical importance

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the Yale Club on the motivations of national public service. M: Was this ever published? F: Yes, it Was published and I think it was reprinted in full in the Washington Post at that time. Therefore, in answer to your question, LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a marine brigade and an air wing and we were in the Philippines already. All the planes were lined up on the runway, but nobody ever knew about it, and we had five thousand men there. I'd go to the club at night and play bridge in civilian clothes

Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

major revisions. time the next morning to have it typed up. Fortunately, we had The President again called me back in November of 1961, at which time Ambassador Bunker was also asked to return. on a television show, "Meet the Press." Press Club here

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Of course, in my state when I was in business, I was called a radical by my competitors because I started the five-day week, the thirty-six hour week, the first profit-sharing plan of any business in the state, a summer cabin for the employees, a flying club

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -- III -- 2 was vice president then, and he was asked by the Fort Worth Club over here . He said, "John Connally's a member there now, isn't he

Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

reaction to you for your failure to join the club on the way they had made their mind up by 1967? B: I think it was ambivalent . On the one hand, I think a good section or the majority section of the intellectual community disagreed with and resented

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-six. F: In your senatorial career then, after being named to the Appropriations Committee, did you have much of a relationship with Mr. Johnson or were you--? M: Not intimate, that is, I wasn't on the inner club. I was not one of his confidants

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

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: September 17, 1981 INTERVIEWEE : DON OBERDORFER INTERVIEWER : Ted Gittinger PLACE : The Cosmos Club, Washington, D .C . Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr . Oberdorfer, at one point in your career you said that you spent nine days recall 0: in Cambodia

Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

looked quite different to many Europeans, including the British, than it did from the White House; that it looked like an effort by a major power to club a small country senseless and use dispro portionate power, air power in particular. I made

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: FREDERICK W. FLOTT INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: The Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Mr. Flott, could we begin with the first question: what were the circumstances of your assignment to Saigon in 1963? F: Well

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

way--closely related. It is a moral faith, not a religious faith. A religious faith requires a person, generally. Well, you learn so much from them and I got--I'm going to be in a program next week up in Minneapolis. The rotary club's putting on a big

Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. I was once chairman of a committee of the Kiwanis Club to build a monument at his birthplace and we invited leading Kiwanians from Texas to corne up and we had a big celebration. M: Lyndon Johnson was a fan of Sam Houston's as I recall. He

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, perfectly legitimate. G: Some of the points that you raised in that speech to the Press Club when you came back were--you mentioned that the government did respond to press criticisms. Z: Yes, it did. G: Can you recall how? Z: Oh, on issues like use

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of their hooches and go to the club, where they would have the support of the other guys. So he started a rumor there in the compound that solitary drinking is a form of latent homosexuality and these guys couldn't stand up under that stigma. So he flushed them all

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

10, 1972 INTERVIEWEE : MAURICE M . BERNBAUM INTERVIEWER : JOE B . FRANTZ PLACE : Room C, Cosmos Club, Washington, D .C . Tape 1 of 1 F: Mr . Ambassador, you came into the Foreign Service from outside, as my notes tell me . B: Oh, yes, I did

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

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of those problems and decisions, primarily because everybody has their own club and he really wasn't in the Kennedy club. G: He was not Harvard. He wasn't Boston. In particular that Kennedy civil rights bill was one example where perhaps LBJ's

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

, and we could really hot-dog it, and we'd needle these guys every time we saw them at the club that night. But it did become the Twentieth, the wing did, and then it was moved to Shaw Air Force Base, still in Mustangs, and then the jet school opened up

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

22, 1983 INTERVIEWEE : KEYES BEECH INTERVIEWER : Ted Gittinger PLACE : The Cosmos Club, Washington, D .C . Tape 1 of 2 G: [When did you] become acquainted with B: In March 1954 . the Vietnam scene? and the Korean War had ended, I

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Well, hell, that woman's as honest as I am, she wouldn't jump a hotel bill. Then she was painted as the dragon lady and all that kind of stuff, which was terrible. Among other things she organized women out there, she had a good women's club going