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Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1976 INTERVIEHEE: J. R. PARTEN INTERV I HJER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Madisonville, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Well, we were up to the 1960 affair. ask you a couple of questions. Before we go ahead, I want to Did you ever get involved in the Joe

Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

it was not dealing directly with the President? McC: Walt Rostow. McS: Only Mr. Rostow? McC: He was the main one because he was his assistant for military affairs. Naturally, he ~as the one. anyone else, I believe. All of us worked with Walt more than LBJ

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

in relation to what became known as the Pentagon Papers? LG: At that point I was deputy director of Policy Planning and Arms Control in the Bureau of International Security Affairs. G: Has that undergone a reorganization since then? LG: Yes. G: General

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

was as assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern Affairs which you held until of 1964. H: Is that correct? No, March 15th. I actually resigned earlier than that, but the President asked me to stay till March 15th while he got a replacement. M: And you had
Biographical information; departed government in 1964 over policy in Vietnam; JFK, Harriman, Forrestal and Hilsman were all for a political approach while LBJ was for a military approach; LBJ: “It’s the only war we’ve got;” Rostow and McNamara were

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in 1949, I went to work for the legislative department of the UAW--United Auto Workers union--here in Washington. My job was mostly research; I read the [Congressional] Record every day and I came to the Hill to get bills and attend hearings. I also

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

/oh 9 out of that one? R: That got to be a long-- Drawn out affair. I'd say he was much more on the other side than he was on our side, much more so. B: About the same time that that was getting started, the issue of Senator McCarthy--Joe

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

, Governmental Affairs Institute. S: That's right. G: From 1961 to 1965 you were the Director of the Bureau of the Census in the Department of Commerce. In 1963 you were the chairman of the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation. S

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

there is a share by both of them--for instance, some of the Labor department programs or where the federal government appoints a state official as in the case of agriculture. But in each case I feel the states should have been involved. The second one was, I felt

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and the ambassador in the public affairs field will be the director of USIS, naming me by name. overall authority had been given. First time that kind of Now that later went through some slight changes, but that combined authority for the press media relations

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this was my birthday and they had an affair and I--my part--I sounded off and congratulated them for what they'd done on Taiwan, taken this island, there's a little island. The State Department had no belief [inaudible] could be done. Chiang Kai-shek couldn't

Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

with them as the Director for Congressional Relations. From 1955 to 1960 you were with the CIA. In January 1961, Mr. McNamara appointed you Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs. From '62 to '65, you were nominated and served

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that he needed in a hurry, foreign affairs things. I was bitterly opposed to the multilateral nuclear force that a bunch of theologians at the State Department cooked up, which I n~edn't go into the details of. I thought it was inherently absolutely

Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the managing director. Suhse~uently I was general counsel to the U.S. Post Office Department. G: Why don't you give us a summary of your rise in government service as you think it might be relevant to the [record]. M: I went to work in the government

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

or whatever--negotiations; from the Federal Reserve Board it was either [William McChesney] Bill Martin or Dewey Dane; and two or three other people--Ed Fried, myself, and Fred [Frederick L.] Deming [Under Secretary of Treasury for Monetary Affairs] and Winn

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

as a junior partner, and finally as a senior partner in charge of their trial work from 1952 until I left on June 1, 1965, thirteen years. While I was doing all of that, practicing my profession, I had also been quite active in public affairs matters, both

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

jobs in the foreign policy community during the Kennedy-Johnson years. You were first special assistant to the president in the Kennedy period; then you moved to the State Department as special assistant to the assistant secretary for Far Eastern

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

there was anything which I would call undue civilian interference in the conduct of the military affairs. But the bombing of North Vietnam was a different thing. It was moderately risky because we didn't know at the outset just how the Communist world would respond

Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

For a number of reasons, after a couple of years I left that newspaper situation. I stayed in middle Georgia for a brief period of time and then accepted a job with Southern Natural Gas Company in their public affairs department and worked with Southern

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh that time we had nuclear weaponry; the other side didn't. In domestic affairs Mr. Eisenhower's greatest civil
leaders of free world after WWII; Little Rock and civil rights; Ike against forced bussing; states rights; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Ike and LBJ had heart attacks in 1955; Dulles and foreign affairs; 1956 Hungarian uprising; Israel and Suez Crisis; Sputnik

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

with the State Department over the weekend and then went before Fulbright and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Monday. Then I left and came back to get my own affairs in shape. My schedule was to spend a month, at least, getting my own affairs

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

, he said, "Mr. Food for Peace, why don't you remind these people of the role that food can play in international affairs. This is not a matter of being soft on Communism or hard on Communism. It is a question of what is in our national interest

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

I made a file search later on to see if there was anything in the files from the State Department or from Rusk that would indicate that the U Thant thing had been passed on. M: There is a mention in [David] Kraslow and [Stuart] Loory, The Secret

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

many economists agree with me on this; but I would do everything I could to reduce or even eliminate the independence of the Federal Reserve. F: Well now, you had four main groups. You had the Department of Treasury, you had the Bureau

Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

as possible to a combination of the three services. Do you still hold these views? F: Yes, but in a sense that is a sort of an administrative affair which I don't think gets into major policy. I was always in favor of a consolidation of the services

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, too, but that was primarily But it was pretty clear by legislative mandate that no American could ship overseas without getting a license for every shipment, and having it approved by the government and the Department of Commerce
; African affairs; Rostow and Dean Rusk; reaction to LBJ joining JFK’s ticket; SJRes 12 Amendment; 3/31 announcement; comparison of LBJ to other Presidents; LBJ’s weaknesses; the press.

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

, an old Moscow callow colleague [?J. I'd been up to Saigon on a long visit one time, so I knew the situation up there, the physical situation. Then I came back and I was briefed in the department and in the Pentagon and in the CIA and everything else

Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of private armies; they were the Cao Dais and the Hoa Haos and they were all fighting each other. Finally they had to put the regular army against them and disarm all these religious groups. It was sort of a mixed-up affair for a while. G: Now, General

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

affair occurred. H: Yes, it did, and we didn't have much fallout. As a matter of fact I think we were in Puerto Rico at a time when the Dominican Republic was still a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

you recall some of the individuals who really came to be an aid to statehood? B: A fine gentleman, a congressman from Florida who was then in the House of Representatives, .was the chairman of the Interior Affairs. That was Senator Peterson, who

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

executive sessions behind closed doors, it was really the captive of the President and the State Department. This, of course, was the device that had been used to reduce the committee over the years to comparative unimportance in the foreign policy

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

--that Mike Forrestal had had earlier; when he went over to the State Department I took over his responsibilities, adding Canada to them. M: You make it sound pretty structured. Is that the case--was that the case with Bundy? C: No. Well, looking back

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, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for Political Affairs; as Ambassador at Large; and, for the last year of the Johnson Administration, you were chief negotiator at the Paris peace talks concerning North Vietnam. H: That's right. M: When did your close acquaintance with Lyndon Johnson begin
Biographical information; Advisory Council to the National Committee; LBJ and foreign affairs; role in peace negotiations; Poland/Yugoslavia visit; India and Pakistan; Soviet Union prevented bombing halt in Vietnam; trip with HHH; Manila Conference

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

noticed some of this is back in the way it was. But just from a reporter's standpoint, if you've got a hell of a good source, say in the State Department, and this source in the State Department dries up because they said, "Look, you're just making

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

that doesn't appear in the November-December papers of this particular group . briefly . at all . It had appeared, as my papers establish, in September But it really wasn't to the fore in the November-December period In fact, I think the Department

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

different names; at that time I think it was called the 303 Committee, and they changed the number sometimes, but it was representatives of the secretary of defense, and the adviser to the president on national security affairs, and a member I think from

Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

remember on any number of occasions we used to mutually deplore what we felt was the lack of coordination of all of the efforts, first just within the federal government--how each department had its own poverty operation. Labor was doing something

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the United States until 1961, when I returned to Vietnam and stayed until 1964. At that time, I switched over from the military, wearing a soldier suit, to staying in the military but actually working for the State Department. I went back again in 1965
Lodge got Jacobson a position in the State Department as mission coordinator; Jacobson's opinion of Graham Martin, Maxwell Taylor, Ellsworth Bunker, Creighton Abrams, and Frederick Weyand; Ed Lansdale's 1965 trip to Vietnam and the work of a group under

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

in for a meeting when we had our plans sufficiently developed so that we could have a three-day session--as I recall. in the Department of Labor building--to go over all our plans. and met each of them individually. Then r saw the whole group Each came to talk

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

much interested in civic affairs in Texas. He attempts to organize people to do things that are pro- gressive. He works at it. He is openhanded with contributions. He is not a millionaire as people think--I think he is well-off as people go

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