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  • President Kennedy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] did, very candidly, was to get it a new euphonious name. Alliance for Progress. More on LBJ Library
  • Secretary of the Task Force on Health. Dr. George James, who was Commissioner of Health in New York City at that time, was chairman. I did most of the writing of the report for that task force. M: This waS a general survey of health in America, or what
  • ://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
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  • 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
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • if there are so many blacks in the community, then all the whites would run for cover and then it all becomes black. So the New Jersey Civil Rights Commission ran that up the flagpole--I think it was New Jersey; it might have been New York--as an idea that maybe
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  • 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
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  • post? S: Primarily what they turned out to be--namely, managing the Bureau of the Census. It's a big organization, some 4500 or 5000 employees. Its primary task is managerial, and the relation of the Bureau to other work in the Department
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  • that there are any intelligent people outside of Cambridge and New York, possibly a few in Boston. And they were laying for him. I think the war in Vietnam had more to do with stimulating and exacerbating the situation than anything else. M: Mr. Johnson
  • House; dealt with Cater, McPherson or Middleton; Temple of Dendur; proposed Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars; some of best new members chosen by the President; most significant achievement was survival; controversial grants; successful programs
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  • saw my name in there--he was there for INS or Hearst--and he said, "Gee, if Beech is going to go, I got to go, too, or else I'll get a rocket from the New York Journal American "--or at least that's what I think he was thinking--and Jim Lucas . So
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  • GOLDSCHMIDT (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Goldschmidt's horne in New York City November 6, 1974 MG: Let's start from the beginning and the first time you met Lyndon Johnson. EG: Well, I met him in a very characteristic way
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  • , 1969 INTERVIHJEE: GEORGE L. MEHREN INTERVIEHER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Mehren's office, The Agribusiness Council, Inc., Park Avenue, New York City Tape 1 of 2 B: This is an interview with Dr. George L. Mehren. Sir, let me summarize your
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  • 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
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  • been a camera- Who was your employer in 1966?" or whenever it was. you present in New York City or thereabouts? to see done by you?" "And were Is the film we're about This was a lot of the substance of the trial. It astounded me that I, who
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  • twenty years of government service which began in 1948 after completing your law degree and an association with a New York City law firm. From 1948 to 1955 you were associated with the Economic Cooperation Administration, and your last position
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  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh T . O'Neill--I-- 8 she was young . Herald . She later went to work for the Boston As a matter of fact, she's Mrs . John Finney now . John writes for the New York Times
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  • and I think to silence the dissent on Vietnam. The thnust of Westmoreland's speech to the newspaper publishers in New York was that we had the enemy beaten militarily and the only question was whether we would lose the war in the Senate
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  • and public meetings all over the country. Then I would grab my hat at noon and fly across the country to make the speech to some place in Alabama or New York City. Quite often, the only speaker I could get on short notice was myself. I became acquainted
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  • ought to enter the twentieth century. Letrs get going with it. I felt that this was strong enough motivation for the simple reason that Wyoming has two Senators just like New York or California or Texas; and that therefore a new Senator LBJ
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  • every accommodation that you could get at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. You could have a radio, you could have lights, you could have refrigeration, and you could have everything that they had in the Waldorf-Astoria with a good highway, a good
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  • : Durbrow, yes. L: Yes. G: Did you know about that? L: Well, yes, we had a fair amount of that kind of difficulty. something new. Here was Here was something new, ambassadors having as a part of their activities a military organization and so forth
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  • and '68? H: I wouldn't say that, but I would say this. Wasn't it after Lyndon became President that Bobby resigned as Attorney General? B: Yes, sir. H: Yes. And went to New York and, by golly, got elected senator from New York. That was quite
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  • , 1969 INTERVIEHEE: CHARLES FRA11ZEL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE HULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Frankel's office at Columbia University, NeH York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you. You're Charles Frankel, and your government position during
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  • wanted to see him immediately on this aluminum situation. The man was over there on business. The president of Reynolds Aluminum Company rushed back to New York and called Califano to see when the President wanted to see him and where. Califano's only
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  • that if one were sitting in Washington and reading the newspaper every day, the Washington Post, the New York Times and so on, I think the conclusion would have been inescapable that the Vietnam problem as seen by the LBJ Presidential Library http
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  • of Idaho, who was appointed to the SEC --- you see, there was a big story in the New York Times that 50 per cent of the staff of the SEC was going to resign if Hamer Budge was confirmed. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • journalistic consequence. It wasn't even the kind of thing you could file as a "Gee, editors back in New York, I met a fascinating man the other night while I was on a story, and let me tell you about him . . . • " It wasn't even that, it was just
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  • of superi or; ty. I thought lithe acti on" was with China and Japan, and this post-colonial appendage was of no interest to us. It had been badly mauled by the French and indescribably badly managed by the French, and the last thing in the world 'tIe
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  • : 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
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  • lowed my job to the Neltl York Times. I wrote an article in the fall; I guess, of 1965 in the New York Times, which they with their characteristic banality entitled-it was in the Times Magazine--"A Professor Votes for Mr. Johnson." In it I tried
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  • to move on it. So what happened was the next day, as I recall, the New York Times had two announcements on its front page. One, the American initiative about extending the DMZ in an effort to de-escalate the thing, and the other that we'd bombed a new
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  • in June of 1965 to succeed Stephen Ailes. Earlier in 1965 you had been appointed Under Secretary of the Army and prior to that you were an attorney in New York and also active in Republican politics. R: Substantially correct. Is this information
  • 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
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  • , with the nature of the democratic society, with our country, that this might have been quite different. really. You realize that he has never visited the West, He visited France once for three days, and he came to the U n i t e d Nations in New York the year
  • to, and there are roughly a hundred of the heads of the biggest banks in the country there. Joe Fowler came down there and we set up a series of meetings with bankers from various sections of the country--you had New York, you had California, you might have Michigan
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  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -- III -- 7 G: B: Did he listen in silence, or did he give his own commentaries on the news? He might have a pungent word or two to throw in if it was something that he
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  • it straight. I remember that Kennedy was very bitter at reporters like David Halberstam with the New York Ti mes, who \'lere tell i ng another versi on of what was goi ng on in Saigon. And I think that this is where this credibility gap gained momentum
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  • as a change of policy . That we were doing what was necessary, that was the policy ; that this was just a couple of new things we were doing, but it wasn't a change of policy . effect, to mute the whole thing . him into that . He wanted, in I don't know
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  • was the art consultant to the Department The chief of the Heraldry Section of the U . S . Army was one ; the director of the National Gallery was one ; then we had one from New York, and I wrote William Walton and asked him to serve as a member and got
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  • of the press releases seem to have gotten out, and I know Bill Blair of the New York Times has the story." I said, "Stew, I'm sorry but the President still hasn't made a decision. You will have to ask them not to print it." He said he would. So then we had
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  • he was a wire service man. But he came out with a book later on which made quite a splash. J: No, I don't know him. G: Have I missed anybody? J: Oh, God, you've missed an awful [inaudible]. (Laughter) Charley Mohr of the New York Times was one
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