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

news organizations, to my recollection, had staff correspondents based in Saigon, I think except for the news agencies. correspondent. The New York Times had a visiting Usually it was a person from Hong Kong who came down just the way I did. LBJ
into the South; Abe Fortas; reporters and public opinion on the war; the effect of the news media; evaluation of other reporters in Vietnam; American generals in Vietnam; locations and dates of his field reporting; covering the Communist side of the war; books

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

predicted my appointment in the spring, I think it was, and I, therefore, concluded I was safe. M: Did you know anything about it at that time? R: No, I knew nothing about it at that time. M: How was the news broached to you? In what manner did Mr

Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

budget. It was before he got into his new offices. He was over in the Vice President's office still and it was with Mr. Heller, Mr. Gordon and myself about the general shape of the budget. That's when I carne down very firmly that it had to be under
of payments; LBJ's relationship with JFK's people; appointment of new Secretary; Vietnam; role of Major General William Dupey

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

there was not a strong and yet poorly articulated commitment. During the first many months of his Administration Johnson did nothing either very new or very definitive to try to reduce or indeed to increase our involvement. It was basically, from his point of view I

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that we were wordsmiths . The only instance I know of anybody our level having made a definite contribution to new policy was Jack McNulty, who through reading � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

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

. I heard him say he wanted a short departure statement and he was counting on them to work it up, and he told the USIA people to make sure it had the right local twist and so on. Well, the next morning I went up to the [hotel]. only there one day

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

forces commander, oh, engineer detachments and some psyops people, and medics. They were called Special Action Forces, and that's when counterinsurgency was brand new. We were all very naive. We did all the things that Americans know how to do, like build

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

. Well, we worked that out, figured that we could do it, and we were going to leave, as I recall, at about four o'clock in the morning, 4:00 a.m., on the appointed morning, and I don't recall the date off the top of my head, and we were going to fly real

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

: The nickname "Chub" came to me at Groton School from the junior headmaster Jared Billings, who had given it to my father when he was at the school some twenty-five years earlier. On me it stuck because all the new boys thought that was my name, when he called

Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

12, 1971 INTERVIEWEE : ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI INTERVIEWER : PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE : Dr . Brzezinski's office at Columbia University, New York Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's just identify you for the beginning here on the tape . . B: Right . M: You're

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

the last years of his life was at breakfast in the Tudor Hotel in New York one morning. I was sitting in the dining room when Aubrey, staying at the same hotel, \'Jalked in and we had breakfast together. But I think this was even before he left

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 Now, I didn't go to Australia and New Zealand, so I can't comment on those phases of the trip, but I do recall very vividly the Manila part of the trip and the President's performance

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

for years. Between my sophomore year and my junior year in undergraduate college. my father moved to New Orleans to become professor of pediatrics at Louisiana State University's School of Medicine. So I went along with the family, finished my junior year

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and wife relationship. I am sure she was a constant counselor; she was present at times of great stress. I know for example the early morning hours when Senator Kennedy was shot and the following day when the announcement had been made of his death

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

the Pacific area. So he doesn't concentrate on it with the intensity that the J-2 MACV [does], but, yes, I followed it very closely; we had morning briefings similar to what they had in Saigon. G: Now, if I have the chronology right, you went out

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

, that may have gone up from 5,000 people at the time of the census to 50,000 people five years later, if they can get a capitation arrangement on rebate of money from the state with a new figure, of course they want to take it. I think it's fair to say

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

, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID HALBERSTAM INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Halberstam's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 2 G: You said that you had a Lyndon Johnson story. H: Yes. I was, in 1960, working for the Nashville Tennessean

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Service Commission branch offices, which are also regional headquarters for the U.S. government civil service. I believe Dallas was one, Denver was one, Kansas City was one, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

://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 Oberdorfer - 0: Well, I think it was late morning, thing, II - 7 perhaps

Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

? L: I can't remember. I appeared there so many times, but I'm sure I probably did. F: But you have no clear cut memory of his presiding? L: No. F: As a committee chairman? When 1961 came along you had of course a new team in Washington. Now

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

and he came And Wolf did a very fine job basically in that field and other agricultural developments, helping with the rubber and new plants and that sort of thing. But there was no [disagreement there]. They fought over other things later, because he

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, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

going to start at the White House Monday morning." at AID about it? that. Dave Bell?" And I said, "Do I need to ask anybody And they said, "Oh, we'll take care of You'll stay on their payroll for awhile." I didn't even go on the White House payroll

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

Leader. R: Majority Leader, that's right. M: That was in 1955. R: Well, when I gave him this advice he was President and I heard how he was working until 12: 00 and 1: 00 and then be up at 7: 00 the next morning, and going to all these formal
Biographical information; LBJ; heart attack; LBJ’s capacity for friendship; FDR New Deal program; support for LBJ in 1960; Sam Rayburn; lobbyist; Bobby Baker; JFK’s New Frontier program; civil rights; education; Vietnam; civilian control of military

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, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

against us here in the United States. Unfortunately, many of our news media--some of them unwittingly, some of them to make headlines--have picked up this propaganda and promulgated it all over the country--all over the world! And people have believed

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

with Mr . Alan Boyd, former Secretary of the Department of Transportation . I am in his new offices at the Illinois Central The date is May 15, 1969 . Railroad in Chicago, Illinois, and my name is David McComb . There's one question I might throw

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Sisco -- I -- 7 S: That's the warm-up period. And what happened was this-- this is new, this is not known, and theref ore, would be of intere st: Arthur Goldberg at that time felt very strong ly that the matter should

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, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

at all. The very few that he did write I believe we have, at least no one has told me to the contrary. What we didn't have is what he was saying to the President in the Friday morning breakfasts. But from everything I know, from the debriefs, he
; staff who worked on study; study plan; lack of direction or certainty of what was expected reflections on the need for historians to do the study; role of Robert McNamara; speculation about the purpose of study; reaction to publication in the New York

Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ROGER HILSMAN INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Hilsman's office at Columbia University, New York Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. your last official You're Roger Hilsman, and position with the government

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

, in the Far Eastern Bureau? T: No. Certainly not, once I moved in with Hilsman in early summer of 1963; the Buddhist crisis with Diem had just taken place in May, as I recall. j~: Yes. T: We were moving to a new and difficult relationship in which we were

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

--was there as president of the National Governors' Conference, and Governor [Richard] Hughes of New LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories

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

down. "The Rotunda, he said, "is right past the tunnel, rightpa st the underpass. back of the Capitol you turn right." and tried to ff nd it, and I went 11 In I did go down New Jersey and ~trai - ght ahead and went and went. finally walked al

Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that, you still had no response from the President or the White House staff? M: No, sir. [I] never received any response whatsoever. It was somewhat disturbing, knowing that every time you looked at the television and you read news reports about what

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

McSweeny. Senator, I'd like to begin our discussion this morning centering around 1960. And I'd like to ask you first since I am already aware that you were one of the principal backers in the "Draft Stevenson" movement if you can tell M: me a little

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with whatever U. N. facilities, translators and so forth, which could be made available. And that, as I understand it, is the essence of what U Thant told Stevenson. Stevenson apparently did not write any of this down, and subsequently when I went up to New

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

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh January 15, 1969 Mr. Gaither, this is our second interview. Today is Wednesday, January 15, 1969; it's 11:30 in the morning, and we're in your office in the Executive Office Building

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