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Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to pass out cards for a young candidate at a political rally there in Smithville; that candidate was Lyndon Johnson. Cliff Carter met Lyndon Johnson that night. He became so deeply impressed with the man that he devoted much of the remainder of his life

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that the French It simply means that the Viet Cong had enough of a fight with us and didn't want one with the French as well. out, we weren't stopped. As it turned I had worked all night and the night before, and going through the worst part of Zone 0

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

night about a story they ran and just chewed out some poor night copy editor? I'm sure 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, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

' rights basis, I suppose you'd term it. When I got here and this bill came up, I read the bill at night. Mrs. Pickle was in Austin. I'd take it home in the evening and read it and I'd debate it with myself. I was coming around to the conclusion

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

There's nothing as confusing as to try to unravel a descrip- tion of a night action at sea. There you can see things in-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and many senior members. My recollections about Mr. Johnson in particular are rather hazy at this time. I do recall that he was a rather prominent member of the delegation and I, therefore, was somewhat attracted to him out of curiosity, having read a lot

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, but before he made any decision about what he was going to do, where he was going to go, he really wanted to find out what the situation was in South Vietnam and whether the things he had been reading about and hearing about in fact added up to a form

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

this hindsight that people try to put into history these days to prove that they were right. I was fascinated to read last night an article in Encounter magazine written by a man named Robert Elegant-G: He's a British journalist, I believe. H: --in which he

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

will not permit you to go to Cairo; and I am very much opposed to your departure." As these little ironies of fate happen, as it worked out, we happened to run into Bill and Betty Fulbright, it seemed to me, almost every night during those several weeks. M

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

an Electra, a chartered Electra; you may recall those planes. They had kind of a circular lounge right in the rear, the tail. F: Right. W: And after everything was through for the night, he'd be flying off somewhere--maybe Garden City, Kansas--be flying

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

by the estimates section, a group of singularly incompetent lieutenant colonels. After I read the briefing I called them all in, and I said, "You're all fired. Out." I real- ized either I was going to have to do it myself or I was going to have to get some

Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

I know about, in terms of decisions at that point or,what! ve read abou,t since, Ambassador Lodgels return and I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

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

support from Russia? B: Well, in the summer of '64, my own reading, and I gave it to a lot o£ newsmen in these terms at the time, is that Khrushchev wished Southeast Asia were under six feet of water . When he was overthrown in October, this was very

Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

around the fact that there was misreporting by CIA or the armed services, intelligence services, whichever was doing it. Now, in your position, which I think is a rather unique position, reading the enemy documents and so forth, did you ever have any

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

to read out loud a rather lengthy statement that John Kennedy had delivered as a Senator to the Massachusetts Farm Bureau state convention. It was a speech in which as a young senato~ Kennedy came out in effect against the agricultural price support

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

And I recall after the dinner party at the Wheelers, which did not break up until after eleven o'clock, I went up to read over my manuscript for the last time and found it unsatisfactory. , So I worked until about two o'clock in the morning in making

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

: In 1964 when I was on the PAC desk of NMCC, I was very much involved in Southeast Asia. That was the focus of it. G: What was the nature of your duties there? S: I was the PACOM desk officer in the National Military Command Center. I read all

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

a good reporter does first and foremost is, he's able to read motivation. I think any reporter who's any good can read motivation as to why somebody is bitching. Is he bitching because he's a professional bitcher? bitching because he's always unhappy

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

one time at the time of the CypriotGreek argument. I got in there about seven o'clock at night, and he was just absolutely exhausted. All I should have said was, "Well, listen, I'm going home," or "You should go home and get a drink," or something

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

vote, finally. Did Johnson ever show his hand on that particularly? G: No, but I'll tell you something I don't think I've ever told publicly. Price Daniel came to me one night in the middle of the debate over whether to censure Joe or not, and he said

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

/oh 10 M: Did you have anything to do with that? W: No. In effect the Secretary as Administrator had read out the Kennedy task force--Joe McMurray. who had worked with the Secretary and who had been the chairman of the Kennedy Task Force

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

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

reading a lot of stuff about his responsibility for this Vietnam War. He inherited that damned war! I've cut a tape for President Kennedy, and I've made it clear on that tape, I don't know what they've done with it, but the first combat troops were sent

Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in a category by what I'm going to say, but I don't think it's atypical. First of all, I knew some about Southeast Asia. I had read some of the history. culture. I knew a little bit about their I believed absolutely in what we were doing

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

. I announced in January of that year I believe, so, yes, I was an early announcer. G: I've heard a story about that campaign or read it in Senator [Paul] Douglas' memoirs that showed your independence. M: Yes, that story became quite famous

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

they reacted very well. One of the cute stories about the White House years is that a senator attacked the President very strongly on the floor of the Senate the day of a state dinner, and that night he was on the guest list. Of course, COpy Lyndon B~ Jobnson

Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh February 1, 1971 B: This is the interview with Senator Lister Hill. here very briefly your background. Sir, let me just read You were born here in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1894, and attended the University of Alabama

Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: BUFORD ELLINGTON INTERVIEWER: T.H. BAKER PLACE: Governor Ellington's office in the State Capitol, Nashville, Tennessee Tape 1 of 2 B: Sir, if I may read just a little background material. You were born in Mississippi and attended

Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

talk for a second about your view of the nature of the war? From reading some of the communications that you made to the White House and some of the statements that you made for newspapers and at the trial, your view of what the war was about inside

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

of the writing, the next guy will read this and this will 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

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

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 19, 1969 M: This is an interview with Dr. Joseph A. Pechman. Institution. He is at Brookings I am in the Reading Room of the Library at Brookings where the interview is taking place. The date is March 19, 1969

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

acquaintance with him and his staff when he was Vice President, but my first real meeting with Mr . Johnson was the night that he told me he was going to appoint me Deputy Postmaster General . P: Could you tell me a little of the circumstances surrounding

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the things I found out when I got out there is that as usual, nobody had read any of the stuff that the Vietnamese were putting out themselves on what they wanted to achieve with the strategic hamlet program. Well, one of the things they had

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the night with one of them. ) You find that instead of a platoon, there are really only eight people there. maybe in a cemetery. You're dug in Actually, I'm using a small case history now. In our "platoon" of popular forces, underequipped

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

really. I think he was My recollection is it was the morning after his arrival, or in any case the morning he was to depart. Actually, the first time I discovered there was a problem I think might have been very late the night before the departure

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

directions. He'd approach different people to get opinions and whatnot, and I'll never forget it, he said to me on the occasion of that particular visit to the cockpit, "Well, what did you think about my decision that I announced last night?" or whatever

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

mean at the White House? M: Well, at the White House, often on a Saturday night with only a couple hours' warning. It wasn't a big party affair. F: Sort of ''You-all come?" M: That's right, exactly that. And then a few times just floating down

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

that in and out a" it. By lying to the bedroom every morning as I did, I came in contact ~1 with the speech because by-and-large the various drafts were went to the President as his night reading. When I would arrive there in the morning the speech would

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Was this for action in the Pacific? P: For action in the Pacific, right, around Kelpart Island, which is just south of Korea, where we went into a harbor one night and sank a munitions ship that was at anchor. M: Did you have to go through nets and mine fields