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

, and Lyndon Johnson heard about it, was in town, and personally came over to welcome me in my new job. Secondly, we had several meetings very early, just the two of us, and then with others around his responsibilities heading the President's Commission. I

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

, then I got there about the tenth of December. I got there about two weeks after the assassination. G: Okay. F: When I got back to Saigon I obviously had a lot of catching up to do because I was out of touch, you might say, with the members of the new

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that ran the paper at that time were not pro-Johnson . I had a friend who was editor, but he died and a new regime came in over there in 1939 or 1940 and they didn't like Johnson's politics very much . G: On the other hand, I guess Mr . [Charles] Marsh

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

of the Senate at the commencement of a new session of Congress to proceed with the consideration of new rules and not to be bound by the rules that had been adopted by the previous Senates in the past. This was an effort, of course, to modify Rule 22

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

Rayburn. B: You and he in those days shared interest--the New Deal in general-- H: That's right. B: Franklin Roosevelt's policies, the TVA. Did you ever get together on bills or legislation? H: The truth is by the time he got to the House, we had

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

conservative man. thought probably he was more of a moderate than Dick Kleberg. I think he supported practically all of the Roosevelt New Deal program. I supported a good deal of it. too much. Relief spending got to be inefficient and The CCC camps, a good
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Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that Lyndon Johnson was more satisfied with what the commission was doing. If Lyndon Johnson hadn't been satisfied with the commission, he would have moved fast to get a new staff director. The fact that he would allow it to move ahead for two years

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

, the Richmond News Leader. To the best of my knowledge, he brought my name to the attention of Aubrey ~li 11 iams. (Interruption) G: --through Aubrey Williams, you were saying. C: Frank Bane, then--in 1935--was the executive director of the American

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

. McNamara was thinking? LG: No. Because even at the end, he told many different stories about the purpose, when the New York Times started to publish these things. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
; 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, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Minh had said, something that some North Vietnamese in Paris. had said, led him to believe that there was an important new element-G: Just for the record, I think it was Mai Van Bo. M: That's right, it was Mai Van Bo, who in Paris? Yes

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in journals . B: At that time, I was considered one of the candidates . I went back to New York--oh I think in November of 1959,--and did a very poor job . meeting in New York, they had all of the candidates . At that It was the meeting of the National

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, 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, 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, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. From 1936 through 1963 you were associated with the Chattanooga Times as a reporter, then Washington correspondent, and finally editor of the News Focus service. This last period was from 1958 to 1963. In 1963 you became a columnist for the Chicago

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

days. He had worked for the old New York World and the National Farmers Union. [He was] really an interesting guy and knew a tremendous amount about Congress and the way things were done, not the textbook kind of legislative process, but the way

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

INTERVIEWEE: MARY LASKER (MRS. ALBERT D. LASKER) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Lasker's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's talk about the genesis of that commission, Mrs. Lasker. You were saying that there was a reason

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

special personal relationship with him at that time? Mundt: Yes, we served on committees together. At different times. We served on the Building Commission, for example. It built this new Senate Office Building in which we're transcribing

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of a The problem there was that on the very day that we did this, we bombed the hell out of Haiphong, a new target in Haiphong. And while LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

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

should have his equal rights, and the responsibility is ours to take care of this thing. We'll see to it 1aw and order prevails." Well, that was something new coming out of Mississippi, but he did it. B: That would have been in 1965 or 1966? E

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

answer to those that talked about giving the administration authority in both taxes without going to the Congress, or perhaps an amendment to that would be to invoke new taxes and if the Congress didn't disapprove them, they'd go into effect. But here

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, but that was a pro forma exercise in all likelihood. So, as long as Idris was in charge in a very conservative monarchial government in Libya, it was really a separate account. That has all changed, of course, since the ouster of Idris and the advent of this new

Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and said that Califano was developing a new legislative package in education for the next session of Congress. That was in the summer of '65, and would I write up the international education part? So I became a government consultant officially and worked

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

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

Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, the most talented people that they had to help set that up were my battalion people out there on temporary duty working for then-Brigadier General McChristian, who had been assigned out there to be [William] Westmoreland's new intelligence chief. During

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

I was talking about a rather obscure and insignificant little country and that it really didn't matter all that much. As a matter of fact I decided myself some weeks later with the death of President Kennedy, and a new President coming into power

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

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

Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Is that correct? c: Well I was appointed in January of '68, and actually came into the office early in February of '68. M: You came here, I believe, from private business with Goldman-Sachs of New York? C: Yes, I had been an economist for Goldman-Sachs. M

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, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the . F: No, I mean after the assassination and the coming of a new President . B: It was a smooth transition . State . . . Yes, we had the same Secretary of There was really little change in terms of operating procedures, and in terms of what we

Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

are getting pretty far from Johnson on this thing. M: Hell, no, I'll get back to it here. here. I'm not trying to preempt your material I was driving toward this--the growth of this sort of new agency in national security affairs, advisory staff

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

the war years. As you would expect for a woman, part of it was giving out recipes. I really am not a specialist in home ec!! But I also gave the news and we had live music. K: And that was during the war period? G: That was during the mid-forties

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 3 (III), 12/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

for. Subsequently in 1967 it became clear that the art had progressed to a point where you could design a new plane which could get for the navy what it wanted. By that time it was going to cost more, but that's what we're doing now--we're going down the route

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

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

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

you very much." G: Oh, my. H: So he went back and reported. I guess that was in December or it was in late fall, and on New Year's Eve, I got a call. He said, "Be prepared to go to Washington on the day after New Years." I said, "For what?" He

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)

was selected to be the pilot for that particular trip as we had just gotten some new jets called the Lockheed C-140 Jetstar, built in Marietta, Georgia. We made the trip; it was successful, although we had some bad weather and some other problems

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

for John Kennedy, I thought Bob Kennedy a little shit. w~s We had almost had a couple of fist fights in the course of ten years, one being in 1960 when I wrote an article in the New Republic before the election saying, "Everybody's sitting around passing

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

, represent a new development since last May. I personally think we made a mistake in showing overeagerness for LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

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