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Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

so impede and block the conduit as to prevent the flow of men and materials to the battlefield? proven to be "no." make it more costly. You cannot. And I say the answer to that has been You can make it more difficult. You can But you can't

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

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

program, and then he had been killed, and that there was some blocking of this program at the time of his death, but that Lyndon Johnson took over and moved this program through in 1964 and '65. R: Does this make sense to you? As I've previously

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

not directed towards that type of war. G: Focused on Europe? S: Yes. G: Was there a counterinsurgency course or block of instruction? S: There must have been, but I don't remember anything about it. didn't make any impression on me. It See, I had been

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

aircraft. But we let them know that they were not blocking us out of our rights of access to Berlin. He was afraid that on some of the rather sensitive incidents that we had with guards on the auto route, which is about 110 miles long, that someday

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

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

think it's the job of any who's in a staff capacity--I tried to see that these things got into the President. I tried to be an avenue of access and not a road block for him, but I'm sure I wasn't a hundred per cent successful with him. Me: What were

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

that shows that the 89th Congress was a "Rubber-Stamp Congress" and rushed things through. G: Let's take the '63-'64 session when, as you've suggested, a good deal of the Kennedy legislation had been blocked in the Congress. took some of this and added some

Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to have many, many meetings on the question of aid to primary and secondary education. And the major stumbling block, of course, was the First Amendment of the Constitution, separation of church and state. Though I think we were reading that provision

Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the Civil Rights Commission was not viewed as a great boon to most federal agencies, and so we had to walk softly in our relationships with most federal agencies. And this is part of what I've just been saying to you about we being a new boy on the block

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

York Avenue. It was a block and a half away. As a consequence he didn't have much contact with the staff during the time I was there. That was mostly my job. NYA had an advisory council of five people, as I recall; Arthur Altmeyer, Josephinne Roche

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 State Department has submitted such legislation to Congress several times, and I believe it was largely blocked by Senator Morse--at least that was my

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

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

most to the Potomac River and had to double back another three or four blocks until somebody finally pointed out the Rotunda. Tiger had forgotte n to tell me that the "underpass 11 was under the ground, that I couldn' t see it. F: It's kind of up

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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

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

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

dmm there, for eXiJ.'J':ple--George Christ-ior " indic ; ···"~d to you e::.rl ;. gr:.' - dOHn \Q just lived a block apart. the White House to help work on the ane! I had not been involved on helping llith the He and I, as I I knew :~1.ics ffi

Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to me, "Hey, something has happened here." Our station was only four blocks away. So with the thought in mind, you know, whatever has happened here, the best story in the world is not worth a damn unless you can get it out, my first move was to get

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

on. Then there are some that are done on a 25 per cent sample, and there are some that are done on even smaller samples than that. The desire, of course, is to get meaningful data at the small unit level, even down to the block if necessary, certainly the enumeration

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

and wanted to enjoy those grandkids. That this was a fact. But I think an overriding factor was also his own conviction that his image, whatever that image was, had become a psychological block and the chances for a breakthrough for some kind of slowing

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

Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

because it could have beat him out there. If we had put a tax on them they would have said, "Well, here's our senior senator out there, been back there these many years, and can't block it." So there was a lot of ramification to it. That's when Kerr told

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

got to the downtown section. At each occasion he would get out with his bullhorn and tell the people how much he loved them, how much he was for them and they were for him, and so forth. And then he got into Congress Square, which is two blocks up

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

in the Post Office Department, which is just down from the White House a block or two. G: Were these paratroops, or do you recall? C: They were some paratroops, I believe, and some other infantry troops. We had quite a contingent of people. G: But never

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and the story of how he was prevented from getting off of the plane with the Kennedy casket is known. I was not witness to it because I was in the forward part of the plane at the time, but I do know the aisle was blocked. And, again, this was the Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and l intend to put it just the way it i s . This is just cheap pol i t i cs . If you want to •1ork foi· t~'? labor peopl e, you go work for the labor people, but I'm going to work for the Un i ted States Senate ." you could hear it for ten blocks