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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, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the relations were not So when--and I think I've discussed this to some extent earlier--when Ted had corne in we had talked a little about 1968. Ted and John Criswell and I had a lunch discussing the forthcoming New Hampshire primary, and Ted was suggesting
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on to India as head of the AID--brought in a clipping from McClean's column in the Daily News in Washington which said, "Waiters are reporting an enormous increase in tips since the tax cut." Lewis LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • Troika; Quadriad; Council of Economic Advisers; administration differences; details of tax cut; trade-offs with Congress on budget cuts; Wilbur Mills; Harry Byrd; origin of tax cut; Samuelson Task Force; “new economics;” tax increases; Vietnam’s
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that--particularly thought of serving at the UN. that I wasn't interested in the UN Not but I was doubtful if I could afford to live in New York at the United Nations, because it's a very expensive post. Probably, if I had realized how expensive I couldn't have
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • this, as Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division? R: I was Chief Counsel, thoroughly enjoying my job and working at it diligently. When Louis Oberdorfer resigned from office, since these two jobs have a great deal of daily contact, I was quite interested
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , "I'm working very closely with him on the new civil rights bill," which Acheson--somewhat to my surprise because I hadn't been aware of any particular interest of his in this--he evidenced an interest also. And he said when he came back that Senator
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, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- II -- 3 tax but certainly it was some time in the latter part of increase~ 1965. The tax increase discussion was given a new urgency in December, when
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at Harvard. Then I got caught up in the U. S. Army during World War II and had about four years of that, including a long siege of combat in Europe. When I came back from the army, I went to the Charlotte News as editor and stayed there about a year
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, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • as it was functioning, and consequently we proposed in 1967 that there be a significant change in the law to give it a different kind of a complexion. We had our last meeting in December of '67, which was the same month that we got our new amendments. I took
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was coincidental. News reports ranged from the totally pessimistic to--I can remember the quotes-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and when I went out, obviously, I talked to a lot of old friends and new friends in the press business, and that was a major gripe. My recollection is that they were sending it through the telegraph office. I don't know which one, whether it was IT&T
  • McGeorge Bundy and the public affairs committee; Bill Moyers; press coverage of Vietnam; Dan Duc Khoi; Bui Diem; improving methods for transmitting news; American journalists from other countries; Morley Safer and Mike Wallace; Vietnam Psychological
Oral history transcript, Keith Waller, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the northeast coast-F: Yes, lIve been there. W: Well, he'd left there on a bombing raid over New Guinea. He'd spent some timein Brisbane, certainly a number of weeks, staying in a funny little country hotel, and he wanted to go back and see it, which he did
Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • been urged by others to get a new deputy. There was a general feeling that they ought to have a sort of a new leaf in Sai gon. G: Who had been his deputy before you? T: A man named Cunningham. I'm not suggesting there was anything unsatis
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • 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 of his earlier experience with the New Deal--the early
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • on his right side, which is just asinine. I mean, I suppose I've heard every rumor and everything that happened in the place over there and this I never heard before at all. That's brand new. But this sort of thing that's creeping into some
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Settlement Commission and rewrite all the job descriptions. It was through Mr. Macy that I obtained some very fine new personnel. M: So he was probably the one who kept your name in the top of the pile as far as prospective talent for the various jobs
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with them or work with them very much? B: They had their own office downtown in a building that was then called the Esso Building, which is now gone. They had, probably, daily conferences. They came in for advice and materiaL After all, the source
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • member, some- thing of a leader of the faculty in connection with that, out of which they nominated me to be their first chancellor. That led later to becoming president of the university during the period of its greatest expansion in new campuses, one
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Adams -- I -- 9 thirtieth of January 1968, I sort of went back to my hole with my captured documents and POW reports and continued working on Viet Cong and NVA strength and found, incidentally, that there was an enormous number of new units popping up
Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • subordinates in the agency that the coordination with the White House and the guidance from the White House to the Arms Control Agency was almost on a daily basis, you might say--particularly when items of arms control nature were coming to a head
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. As I said, the country was divided by region and somebody was responsible for everybody in the East--New England, the eastern states, Middle West, up to Chicago. Illinois. Then I guess Irv Sprague took the western states from Missouri on, and all
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • staff who gave him a daily briefing and, of the intelligence briefings. course~ he got Whenever there was any development of any significance we made sure from Harriman's office, and I'm sure that Rusk did the same thing in his office, that the Vice
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE iP5) July 31, 1969 This is a continued session with Mr. Henry Fowler, former Secretary of the Treasury. The interview is in his office in Goodman Sachs and Com- pany in New York City, 55 Broad Street. The date
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Judd -- III -- 10 [inaudible]. What he said, "In October, 1977 [1917], we parted with the old world. We are moving toward a new world. A communist world. It's all there. We will never part. Never stray away from that path." Now after
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . He He had time to study them. He could later ask, questions about them, and they were closely, well-written documents all the way from the President's daily brief, which he got every night and which gave him a quick rundown on important things
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the traffic that was made available from all the embassies. The cable traffic you showed me, for example, part of the daily fare would be a stack of it. Some of what you showed me was SI, was back LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • people are going to get hurt or killed. G: Did you have an opinion on the way that Hanoi was apparently able to convince some Americans that we were, in fact, bombing the civilians? Harrison Salisbury, I think, of the New York Times, was perhaps the best
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 12, 1969 This is an interview with Chet Huntley in his office in New York on May 12, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. First of all Mr. Huntley, you have one thing in common with Lyndon B. Johnson, that is you
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: THOMAS CORCORAN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Corcoran's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Let's talk about the New Hampshire primary in 1968 and what happened to the President there. C: There was a primary