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Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • manner or means. G: She became rather famous for making certain statements to the press later on, and the one that sticks in my mind at this time for some reason is that after 1963, she went on record as saying that the Americans were to blame for it all
  • Agrovilles; insurgency; Madame Nhu; Green Berets; Lionel McGarr; coup d’etat; Father Raymond DeJeagher; Buddhists; press; James A. Van Fleet; troop numbers; other U.S. and Vietnamese officials; country teams in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on that one. Anyhow, that was the way that was and then, as you know, later after that, the President went up to a meeting, I think it was the Associated Press editors, in a couple of weeks, repeated the same thing right smack on the record; and then later
  • -Proliferation Treaty; DeGaulle; American economic encroachment; effects of détente on NATO; Harmel exercise; INTERIM REPORT; press; institution of war.
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the courts. I said in advance over a nationwide "Meet the Press" that I would abide by the results; that we did not advocate defiance of the law, we advocated only that a case involving the governor be adjudicated at that level, with the governor as a party
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • what they called the bull pen which was the big large room in the basement of the Biltmore Hotel where all the politics took effect, and every day at noon the press had arranged for press conferences. So everybody else had spoken and so I got out
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • he was criticized sharply by the press and by the more-or-Iess hawkish people and by the military for not hitting the military targets in the capital city of North Vietnam. He explained to me that this was a tire plant that sat right in the middle
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bachelors in Washington. We were We were assigned to Margery when she got back to the States, more [as] bodyguards in keeping the press away, and keeping her from dropping any more post cards, really, until we could decompress the situation. G: What
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Johnson a couple of times on specific requests froT:l President Johnson to speak to him about this or that bit of legislation, rr.ainly in my field. And he _vas ahlays very professional about it. The press at one point thought--and had it in the paper
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and I'll understand why you wouldn't, but Lansdale was a rather legendary figure I think in the press and popularly, although I think Graham Greene didn't think as much of him as a good many other people and saw him as rather a sinister figure than
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to cut this Gordian knot. And I must say that in those days, he received practically no recognition for his effort. The pro-civil rights press in the large northern and eastern cities viewed Lyndon Johnson as a sentinel of the status quo for the old
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was in the first car and I was about three or four cars-because whenever there was an official ceremony like this the press people had to be up forward. Liz Carpenter was up forward, etc., and I always stayed out of the way. Oh, about eight miles out we began
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : This is common in politics. But now there I was---I don't know why, and maybe it has been to my advantage, but the press has always written more about me than I deserved or warranted, and a lot of times I didn't understand why. That dinner attracted too much
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . It's of historical interest to say that that was the first and last conversation we ever had on the subject until totally to my surprise in 1966, he announced at a press conference that he had just appointed me Director, although he had
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • still wanted to get the statement out and make it public, we could. And we did. At that point he had a press conference on a number of other matters, and during the press conference said he thought this was a bad suggestion, probably unconstitutional
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Natural Gas Company for approximately a year. By this time it was fall of 1966. Then I got a call from a guy by the name of Bill Bates, who had been Senator Russell's press secretary since the mid-1950s. By the It/ay, he might be able to make
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the press. My experience has been that after every war the underachievers come up with something related to the war, whether it's shell shock or whether it's gassed in World War II or whether it's battle fatigue in World War II or whether it's Agent Orange
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The President was having a press And he called up, and it was the first time I had 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
  • Vietnam; 6% surcharge; Wilbur Mills; Emile VanLennap; Chairman Mahon; IRS; Sheldon Cohen; Stan Surrey; Henry Ford; Sidney Weinberg; gold rush; financing difficulty; Paul Volcker; Ed Snyder; Heller-Pechman plan; Presidential press conference
Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at the time you left Vietnam and came back here, there was discussion in the press about an alleged disagreement between you and, particularly, Army commanders regarding the necessity of concentrating on destroying the Viet Cong infrastructure
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 15 no aircraft in the world equipped like his aircraft is. Go: Do you also make provisions for the press to fly with the President? Gu: No, not unless they charter one of our aircraft. We get into this by the press not being given
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was pushing was the other way, that the senator sometimes just couldn't go along. So he always had to be acquainted with those and I don't think he ever, as far as I know, pressed a senator to do something which he knew would have a severe backlash in his
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , particularly political, having to do with South Vietnam. Also, quite frequently George Christian, the press secretary, would be there, and also Tom Johnson or somebody like that to take notes. Occasionally Vice President Humphrey would attend
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • everybody It was very nice . Then a press conference after church in Fredericksburg . And with that, when I got back here the next day, it was easier to get things done on organization . So, we worked on that through Christmas and he sent my name up
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a speech in Japan that seemed to be contrary to what Johnson was saying in his campaign speeches. The press made it a big thing. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • back further, or whether to go ahead with something on the order of a hundred and one, to two billion dollar range. It was President Johnson's view that if we pressed ahead, and particularly what he thought might be the political reaction to a budget
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that the military aid program was designed primarily to build up our strength in Europe. I know that at the same time the Korean War was under way, so that this was in 1950 that I'm talking about. General [Douglas] MacArthur was pressing hard for more air power
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to back up here and break the war out in parts, too. let's go to the advisory war, the war during which time the First~ American role was solely advisory. was very, very small. The press corps at that time The number of people who were either perma
  • Biographical information; reporting from Vietnam; press in the advisory war; Diem regime; correspondents’ activities; networks of sources and information; view of Vietnam; Buddhist-Catholic strife; Hoa My; rural-urban dichotomy; factions; Nguyen
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --Senator Johnson go? M: In the fall of 1955, I was playing golf one day, on a Sunday. Governor Stevenson called me off the golf course [and] said that President Eisenhower had had a heart attack, and the press was LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , because the minute you do that, they'll change the code. G: Is that the impeccable and highly secret source that Mr. McNamara referred to? M: Sure. G: Okay. It was intercepted radio traffic, is that the nature of the thing? M: Yes. But the press
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ; 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, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • will sound very simple, but people thirty or forty years from now might not consider then quite as simple as they now are. Don't let them limit you. If you want to ramble around and talk about something else, by all means do so. You were with United Press
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at the airport and arranged a press conference for hUn. That was my only contact with him. M: What did these big city northern mayors think about Johnson being the vice presidential candidate in 1960? C: I personally thought it was a very good choice, I
  • legislation; Senate vote on Medicare testifying on the hill; civil rights bill; duties as Secretary; expansion of Office of Aging; women in government; appointment by Secretary; birth control report; surgeon general's report on smoking; LBJ and the press
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the part of the Ecuadorians in getting the change made? B: I don't know. I never did know because we had agreed to do it. The Ecuadorians were actually pressing me to get our agreement to do it. F: So I never did find out why it didn't happen
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with me, placed great emphasis on the need for helping the people as well as for destroying the Viet Cong. He wanted rural electrification programs in Vietnam; he kept pressing for a whole series of developmental initiatives. Well, out of all
Oral history transcript, Keith Waller, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , partly because our own economy has expanded to such an extent and partly because we have been pressing for, and indeed ourselves offering tariff advantages to the LDCs, the less developed countries. F: In the spring, our spring of 1965
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is violence. We're up against that situation constantly to-day. I remember when our first hundred million dollar program was approved by the United Nations Development Programme Governing Council I called a press conference. We gave some details of what we
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • retaliation, but that back at the Associated Press 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/show
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • trust. They treated him as a usurper. Now I understand that the Honorable--wait a minute now, I'm getting old--who's the press secretary to-­ F: [Pierre] Salinger. C: No, the press secretary to Lady Bird. F: Oh. Liz Carpenter. C: Liz's book
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldschmidt- -27 on the enforcement of the desegregation of the Court. At that time, Whitney Young and a number of people were pressing very hard to put into the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as they did
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said something that seemed to be supportive of the President's hopes or wishes on some aspect of policy, and he referred to it in a speech or a press conference or something, which irritated us consid­ erably. Because, after that, Pierre claimed
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , the press seemed to be ready to believe that was the case, the whole thesis that this was warranted action if it kept up and increased, we thought was more accepted than it was, certainly in intellectual circles and so on . And in the face of the kind
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . But when this unpleasantness began·happening after May 8, the press began to attack Diem. A great many·American officials began to think he was getting worse and worse. Some people~ including mYself, began to be worried lest he collapse, and then we