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Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . You ' re Kenneth O' Donnell, and your off icial pos iti on 1·1 i th the Johnso n Administration was as specia l ass istant to t he president from the time he took offi ce, a job you continued in from t he Kennedy Adm i n i stra t ion , on unt i l
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . From 1936 through 1963 you were associated with the Chattanooga Times as a reporter, then Washington correspondent, and finally editor of the News Focus service. This last period was from 1958 to 1963. In 1963 you became a columnist for the Chicago
  • Outline of journalistic career; LBJ's unique handling of press during both Senate and White House years; Kennedy and Johnson humor; Jacqueline Kennedy's appreciation of LBJ; LBJ's swearing-in ceremony in Dallas; Kennedys thoughts of death and LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • there . variance . There's just one little For awhile I was Counsel and not the Staff Director, for a period of about two years, but the rest of the time I was the principal staff person for the Post Office and Civil Service Committee of the House . P: When did
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be a member, a lobbyist, or someone else to speak to the group and answer questions about a pending bill or some other timely issue. to be qu ite a popu 1ar event. Club." This got We ca 11 ed it the "Tuesday Luncheon I was one of the organizers
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • -- 3 finally, at that time, the Bell-Dillon-Heller layer. This served both as a kind of factual agent to give the President something like a quarterly review--I don't know that we were quite that systematic but that was the objective--of the economic
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Of course, a lot of things have happened since then. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh But at the time that was certainly heralded
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LYMAN LEMNITZER INTERVIEWER: Ted Gitt i nger PLACE: General Lemnitzer's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: All right, sir, please go ahead. L: It was about that time that General [George C.] Marshall took over from Louis Johnson
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
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was living in Japan, Dien and I began to hear and read about this place called and so I went down there for the Chicago Daily News what turned out to be the end of to the Viet Minh Dien Bien Phu fell Accords . it . and at the time of the Geneva
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Communism in government. that there w a s The story that I believe to be true was a luncheon held across from the Mayflower Hotel at which there was a Catholic priest, a fired correspondent from the old Times Herald in Washington, and somebody else
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Press-Herald was this beautiful picture of Lyndon Johnson and the Republican governor in a victory salute surrounded by this huge crowd. Isn't that a great story? Well, by the time we get down to the city hall steps where Johnson was to speak, Reed
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and his secretary of defense, his various secretaries of state and so forth. And I thought that they would come out of it, that they would come out of it in time. G: I think, in fact, you said in a letter to Senator [Mike] Mansfield that you thought
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and providing for the tape some background information, at the end of which time I'd like you to fill it in or complement it in any way you feel fit. You were born in 1900 in Atlanta. In 1923 you received the bachelor of arts degree from Morehouse College
Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: FRANK PACE, JR. INTERVI EWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Pace's office, 545 Madison Avenue, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You're Frank Pace, and your last full time government occupation was in 1953 \"lhen you retired as Secretary
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • we begin, because I think this is a time period central to our area of discussion. I have down here that in 1960 to 1962 that you were director of the Joint Staff organization within the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This would be here at the Pentagon. W
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Morris -- I -- 2 Actually I had really not enough time to get my feet on the ground while I was in I Corps as the J-2 adviser there. I did find an ARVN intelligence officer by the name of Thiep, who was later transferred to their JGS, and ended up
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 24, 1969 F: Let me make a brief introductory statement. This is an interview with Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, long-time Prime Minister of Australia, in the Sheraton-Crest Inn in Austin, Texas, on November 25, 1969
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 's, I would like to make touchstones of your various services and assignments during that period. This is more for my benefit and to be sure that I have the times correct on them. Staff in 1959. You retired as Chief of This is, of course, under
Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Corps in Vietnam, is that correct? W: No. I went out to command in I Corps in May of 1965. M: And then carne back in a little over two years-- W: I carne back in June of '67. M: Did you ever have the opportunity during any of that time
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • as a group and we made decisions as a delegation. So, while I did specialize in these questions of colonial issues, African issues, and trusteeship, nevertheless, I was involved in the other issues, particularly at the time of the Middle East crisis
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: HARRISON SALISBURY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MUu-iOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Salisbury's office, New York Times, NeVI York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by simply identifying you, sir. You're Harrison Salis- bury, and you've been with the New York Times
  • Working for the New York Times; Salisbury’s trip to the Far East in 1966; getting permission to go to Hanoi; a possible connection between Salisbury’s visit to Hanoi and the Marigold negotiations; trying to convince the Vietnamese
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to see was ~don B. Johnson. I think he was senator at that time. F: He was elected to the Senate in 1948. H: I think he'd just been elected senator. But even as a new senator he still had unusual influence in the Senate. As I slW, he
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • l had not covered the Hill in the days when he was majority leader, although obviously everybody in town knew him. M: You were. overseas, l suppose, most of the time. A: Much of the ti;ne, I. was. terribly well. I was in and out, but I never
Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . II I didn't know at the time who had written them, at that exact time, but I found out several months later that the handwriter had been then Lieutenant Colonel Robert Gard, G-A-R-D, who was the military assistant to McNaughton at the time
  • Times; order of battle controversy; reflections on JFK and the Vietnam War; present and past views about the Vietnam War
Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the one shot sort of situation? S: I was chairman of the finance committee of the Democratic Party at that time and we would meet from time to time, and also when he was vice president, we would run across each other in various situations. F: Just
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , from the time he went there until he left . F: You were educated entirely in California? B: Yes, both my wife and myself are products of Lowell High School in San Francisco . She went on to the University of California . I went to San Francisco
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Johnson? S: I guess that was probably in 1962. M: After he was already vice president? S: When he was vice president. I spent from June 1961 until July 1962 pretty much in Geneva on the Laos talks, and I think the first time I met him
  • to negotiate; drafting a congressional resolution and comparing it to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution; meeting with Canadian officials about U.S. negotiation goals; J. Blair Seaborn; LBJ balancing time devoted to domestic affairs vs. Vietnam; how Sullivan was chosen
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape II 2 (Nov. 13, 1968, Nov. 14, 1968) A: I felt this was one of those times when it did make a difference who was the American chief representative in this mission--in this case, Sofia. That, quite possible, if I had been
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with people in the House and the Senate that were important. No one, of cour se, was more important in that particular capacity than Senator Johnson at that time. So I did see him quite often and would go to his office and talk with him- -meet with him
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Hoover, Eisenhower. First of all after Hoover, Roosevelt; and after Roosevelt, Truman; then Eisenhower; Kennedy; Johnson. six Presidents. topics. This is with five, Naturally all this time we had conversations on various I would not say the same
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , that is directly. I started working for Time magazine in Paris in 1950 and at that time the French war in Indochina was going on. So I had a good deal to do from the Paris end of covering the story, that is, from the French end of the story. And [I] became
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Relations Committee? M: Well, yes, I did. The Foreign Relations Committee post opened up rather unexpectedly, to me at least. I had been kind of waiting in the wings for an opening on the committee for some time, since that was my primary area
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT KOMER li~TERVIEWER: PAIGE E. PLACE: Mr. Komer's office, RAND Corporation, Washington, D.C. MULHOLL&~ Tape 1 of 3 M: You were, for part of the time in 1964 and '65, the White House man on Africa as well as the Middle
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Prior to that you had Prior to that you had been a New York Times State Department reporter. Does that pretty well get tbe last ten or fifteen years? J: It does except my last public service was as a member of the American delegation to the peace
Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • like you-- R: Well, it took me a long time. I had been trying to get off for quite some time and thinking about it and making real efforts for quite some time. I: Did you have any connection with Mr. Johnson at all prior to the time you joined
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • abroad in one place almost as well as another. But I remem- ber the time when I was first asked whether I would be interested in a diplomatic appointment, it was mentioned to me by one of President Truman's advisors that there weren't very many women
Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was, at the time, in London; I was the political- military affairs officer in the embassy in London. Actually the word came to me when I happened to be in Paris, going over for just a couple of days for some talks with the embassy there, and someone called me--I
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • office now in Brookings The date is March 20, 1969 ; the time is 2 :50 in the afternoon ; and my name is David McComb . First of all, I'd like to know something about your background, where were you born, when, where did you get your education . 0: I
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: BARRY ZORTH IAN INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Zorthian's office in the Time-Life Building, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you. You're Barry Zorthian, and your main official position during the Johnson
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 29, 1968 M: The tape is now running, Mr. Finletter. Let's start in a very general way. Can you recall the first time in your career that you came into contact with President Johnson? F: I really can't. My