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

, with President Kennedy being President at the time. I spent most of the day with him. I met him at Stewart Air Force Base, which is -near Newburgh, New York, in the morning. the graduation ceremonies late that morning. He addressed He had lunch with us in my

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and 20, 1977 INTERVIEWEE: Mrs. Jane Englehard INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Engelhard's home, Cragwood, Far Hills, New Jersey Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your parents, first of all. Your father was a Brazil- ian diplomat. E
to the United States and involvement in the microfilm business; New York Governor Alfred Smith; a plane crashing into the Empire State Building; marrying Charles Engelhard; Engelhard’s political career; Engelhard’s involvement in the gold business; race

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

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Flott -- I -- 18 of his sleep, and Mrs. Lodge was running out of new bases on which to be cheerful and seeming delighted to see me. So about three o'clock in the morning Mike Dunn came

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the President's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who has just started this new thing called the Peace Corps." had read about it. do." He said, "Do you want a job?" I said I I said, "I think I So he wrote on a piece of paper in his notebook the name "Bill

Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

during the first five years of the Kennedy-Johnson Administration when the rate of economic growth was twice as high as in the previous years. And we began to get the new and recent price inflation when the economy got into trouble again. There has
interest rates; Rexford Tug-well; Keyserling’s influence on the New Deal; lasting effects of New Deal reforms; military spending and the economy; Vietnam war; planning public spending; jobs and on-the-job training; evaluation of LBJ’s domestic policies; how

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

McGeorge Bundy, like Larry O'Brien, and certain others of them like this boy from whom I just got the letter, Bernie Boutin, who tried to run the campaign in New Hampshire [tried]. That was a letter from Bernie this morning. I think King. That was a very

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. The time is 10:45 in the morning, and my name is David McComb. To start off, Dr. Pechman, I'd like to know something about your background--where you were born, when, where did you get your education. P: I was born in New York City and went through
Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul

Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Novak -- I --4 M: What they call the new journalism now, but it was being done fifteen years ago. N: That's right. So I did a lot of stuff on Johnson. It tended

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Washington in May of 1942 from Pennsylvania, \"here I had been state m,anager of International News Service. ing to get back to being a reporter, I managed ~~ant to get transferred out of the administrative and back into the reporting business

Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

the President and yourself? Gu: Colonel Cross said, as I recall, I~r. President, this is a new man that I've brought in to be my administrative assistant. He's a Marine." The President said,"I understand from Cross that you can walk on water and replace

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Sprague who's now chairman of the FDIC, handled the western states. The first thing in the morning all the congressional mail addressed to the President would come to me. to is Jean Lewis[?]. I know one you ought to talk Have you got her down? I'd

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the news if I'm not mistaken, was an the Buddhist monk so-- in those days . And it's sort of a puzzling story, because I gather he was a puzzling sort of a person . Is that accurate? � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the morning, that noon he was over at our cormnission meeting saying, "Don't have the hearing in Mississippi, it will complicate our trial at Philadelphia." And we said, "Look, we've already been asked to call it off twice by this administration, once

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

associated with the New Yorker since, what, 1944 or thereabouts? R: That's right. ~1: And you are well-known as an author of numerous contemporary hi stor;cal type \;JOrks, Senator Joe McCarthy and The Genera 1 and the Presi dent, a fairly well-known list

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

/oh able to do that with the very limited advance warning we had and so on, was a shock within government and it obviously was a shock to LBJ. You know that front page of the Washington Post that next morning with the pictures of the brand-new

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: Oh, yes, considering that I was new and green. I was the main political guy for Brown, so there was some value from their viewpoint. B: But it was pretty heady stuff. What was your impression then of Mr. Johnson's chance for the nomination? 0

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

; with the new plant and equipment 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/exhibits/show/loh/oh SCHULTZE

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

the first thing in the morning, and you can then judge it for yourself." So I came in here early, and·r guess called my secretary in and said, 11 Let 1 s quickly retype this and send it to the White House." She'd no sooner started retyping it than Pierre

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, because of your background, is with the method by which people of your type were recruited into the government. T: You were with Standard Oil--is that correct? That's correct. I was operating in the Caribbean area with Standard Oil Company of New
into the Department of Economic Affairs; Labor was 95% against the new Department; Labor-Management Advisory Committee studies merger and proposed that it not be done; personal contact with the President; White House staff; Cabinet meetings were basically

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 that he would sign the smaller ones and not sign the larger ones. released it that morning, as a White House news release. was just a very bloody

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as a kind of a buffer to take care of special problems that got created, because of my civil rights background and labor background. Well, one day evidently some angry folks from New Jersey came over from one of the local poverty programs over some

Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Dulles was a very controversial fellow, but underneath they thought he was an awfully smart fellow. Many Democrats used to say to me, "Well, if we've got to have the Republicans in, very few Russians get up early enough in the morning to be able
Contacts with LBJ; success of Eisenhower relationship with Congress in foreign policy; personal contact between Secretary Dulles and LBJ; AID bill; estimation of LBJ; formidable experience of talking to LBJ; Macomber never brought good news

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Durbrow, yes. L: Yes. G: Did you know about that? L: Well, yes, we had a fair amount of that kind of difficulty. something new. Here was Here was something new, ambassadors having as a part of their activities a military organization and so forth

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

, but one of particular relevance here, which was a conference in New York sponsored by an organization called Peace Without War. November I believe. It was last And there then that was all on the record. I gave a talk on the issues of press relations

Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, outline your career, private and govermental? B: I might begin with my upbringing on a farm in southern New Jersey, I was born in 1934 in southern New Jersey, began farming there as a youngster, a future farmer and 4-H member . I developed a large

Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, the most talented people that they had to help set that up were my battalion people out there on temporary duty working for then-Brigadier General McChristian, who had been assigned out there to be [William] Westmoreland's new intelligence chief. During

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

ranging from six to seven o'clock. could make the very early morning shows here. They used The wire services And even the dailies, the specials, the New York Times or the Washington Post, could make a late edition, you .see. And every other period

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, This was Saturday morning. And, of course, I was absolutely dumbfounded because I hadn't any idea of going so soon, and it was just a week before Thanksgiving. And my family was coming to New York to spend Thanksgiving with us and I was thinking

Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it on the front page of New York Times and the Post the next morning. But not a line. But the interesting thing was that the wire services did summarize it and send it out. So that the small papers throughout the country got the news that Senator Ernest

Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was sick and that Bill Blair had intended to accompany Governor Stevenson on a trip the next morning to Texas. F: Now, who is Bill Blair? M: Bill Blair was one of our law partners. He subsequently was ambassador to Denmark and the Philippines

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

or the appointment of a new one. In a business way, though, I've bumped into him perhaps half a dozen times, not on Defense matters, but during the period that I was General Counsel of the Army and in charge of the civil works program. Do you know what the civil

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, although his early record in the Congress would indicate that as a young congressman he was quite liberal and supported all of President Roosevelt's programs, all the New Deal legislation. But by the time he came back to the Senate, I would say that he

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

believe, is suffering from a systemic sort of cancer, I think? N: Well, with the contaminant that's in Agent Orange, the dioxin that causes the trouble, it's not good at all, it's bad news. But I don't think that the problem is anything like it's exposed

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

, in its ever-loving wisdom, had eliminated the appropriation for the domestic division of D.W.I. because they were angry because of a field survey, \~ich was that the representatives were interposing themselves between news sources and the government

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

it was over, I went over and introduced myself--I had never met him, I had talked to him on the phone--and I think he asked me then if I'd come to another briefing at his house the next morning just before he left. And I said I would and I did. After

Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Clements was also impressed with your independence and helped get the money from a source in New York or some place, a liberal source. M: They did raise some outside money, and I never did know or pay much attention where it came from. The Committee

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

Defense College when a telephone call came through from the State Department asking me to return immediately to discuss a new assignment. what they had in mind. This was in December [1963]. I was not told The Imperial Defense College had not concluded

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

/oh or maybe it was Bowdoin [College] up in New England, and had had one summer as a copy boy at the New York Times and so on. He was a very active, very energetic Vietnamese whose family or wife ran a big English school. He understood the press

Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: DAVID DUBINSKY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Dubinsky's office, 201 West 52nd Street, New York City Tape 1 of 1 (Interview begins abruptly.) M: . . . Roosevelt. D: Hoover--Republicans too. M: Oh, Republicans too, yes! D

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

not before Congress as a platform for the Democratic party in '56 and again in '60. Most of the time I was governor of New York--a considerable part of the time I was. Then afterwards I still remained as a member because we were very much concerned

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