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Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Department's budget . B: That is correct . Our funding comes through the Foreign Affairs committee, through the A .I .D . budget rather than the Agricultural Appropriations Committee . THB : Does your agency have its own permanent men overseas? I know A .I
; work with military; obstacle to rapid development of agriculture in underdeveloped nations; caliber of people he worked with in foreign countries; training program; encouragement of American investment in factories producing agricultural equipment

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

: And you deal with them as well as with the National Security advisory people? R: That's right. You see, I'm chairman of a task force on telecommunica- tions policy, which has involved me a great deal with Cater and De Vier Pierson. LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the team. J: Well, I was on the National Security Council at the time, as you know, on the staff in charge of Far East affairs, so I had been working on Vietnam for quite a few years, [for] three steadily and before that for a couple of years, in and out

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. lady Bird said something like, I caught the words, "All the nation mourns your husband." And I remember Chief Curry saying to her, "You've had a hard day, little lady. You'd better go lie down and get some rest," or words to that effect. I quoted

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

tended to put committee meetings on a rigid schedule, the Kennedy Administration groups, committees, et cetera would meet when there was a reason for them to meet. Under the Eisenhower fixed-schedule approach, I'm told that as far as the economic

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. I believe Mr. Johnson appointed you Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs. first time that title had been used. That was the Carl Kaysen never really had that title before, did he? K: I'm not sure. M: He had it? I think you
; the reputation of the National Security Council; being promoted to Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs; Francis Bator; filling in after McGeorge Bundy left his position in February/March of 1966; why McGeorge Bundy left his position as Special

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

was a working group, I've forgotten its name, established under what was I think at that moment of time still called an Executive Committee--the term passed out of usage very shortly after . Now in this working group, I was appointed chairman and told

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Okay. All of this was taking place within the context of the attempt to reach an agreement on a Special National Intelligence Estimate, is that correct, SNIE? A: That's right. National Intelligence Estimate 14.3-67. G: Which eventually got written
Adams' work for the CIA in Vietnam in 1965; identifying the enemy in Vietnam; self-defense and secret self-defense militiamen in Vietnam; Adams' involvement in Special National Intelligence Estimate 14.3-67: altered statistics reporting troop

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

] committee to get the information operation over there going. George made a couple of comments then that raised some question about whether or not this would be the wise thing for me to do, to go over there. it. G: Again, I thought nothing at all about

Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, "Education lies at the heart of every nation's hopes and purposes. of our international relations." It must be at the heart This was a phrase that I think beautifully summarized the role of education, not only in domestic advancement, but also
and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961; Board of Foreign Scholarship; Fulbright-Haynes Act; Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Budgetary Stringency; War Claims; Russian cultural agreement; American effort in international education and cultural activities; World

Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald (Item)

committee under Ambassador Lodge? W: I was the one who proposed to Nes that a committee be set up to concentrate on pacification and suggested that Nes chair it. Nes, who was deputy chief of mission, accepted this, and the committee with me, [Barry
General Harkins and his relationship with Taylor and Lodge; David Nes and pacification; assessment of ambassadors; National Libertarian Front; weaknesses of South Vietnamese forces; Westmoreland’s command arrangements; strong points of the U.S

Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (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 9 to go through what we call the Development Loan Committee. II m the chairman

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

? H: There are two. There's the National Advisory Councilor committee, and there's the Economic Opportunity Council. The National Advisory Council are external people that meet and go over OEO programs and presumably advise the President
House; OEO support for a job creation program; National Advisory Council; Economic Opportunity Council; attendance at cabinet meeting; relationship between OEO and White House; Kerner Commission Report; war on poverty conservative in outlook; personal

Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of Foreign Intelligence in the Department of the Army in the Pentagon, from about 1957 to about 1961. Then I was transferred to the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland, where I was the Director of Production from 1961 to 1965; and then back

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

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 the National Heart Institute, I decided to stay in the Public Health Service and moved then to Bethesda to become part of the Grants Branch
Biographical information; Bane Committee membership; Health Professions Act; AMA limits number of doctors; Surgeon General’s Report on Nursing; Health Professionals Education Assistance Act; NDEA; passing legislation; Krebiozin; Medicare hearings

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

assistance in Ethiopia is basically the payment of rental for an intelligence installation. Latin America is basically not directed toward an American security interest in the sense of our fearing that the security of these nations is endangered by external
Military Assistance Program; American foreign policy; Vietnam; national security; disarmament; ABM; defense policies

Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

times earlier to join the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and turned them down the first two times, saying that I was not an expert in radiation and besides, I was a reassurer of parents, not an alarmer. Homer Jack, the director
Campaigning for LBJ in 1964; serving on National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy; disagreement about Vietnam War; letters to LBJ about the war; RFK; HHH candidacy; White House Conference on International Cooperation; Spock trial; civil

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh PERRIN -- II -- 4 problems. The director of OEO was named by the law to be the chair- man of the EOC~ so this put a non-Cabinet member supposedly chairing a Cabinet committee
Power of state Economic Opportunity director of governors; veto power and overrides; creation of the National Advisory Council; Perrin’s duties as deputy director of OEO; Senator Morse; involvement of BOB funding; political red tape; GAO

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Taylor -- II -- 5 "Is there a national interest in continuing our efforts?" That had been determined by the National Security Council the last time in May of 1961. My task was purely a matter of studying

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

not upon your own national decisions to deploy all your resources, but how much the enemy, in effect, requires you to deploy particularly since the objective of the United States was not to destroy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Influence of Vietnam on Treasury policies; attitudes towards LBJ and Congress; national public service

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Helms -- II -- 2 H: So I had been with OSSa Then I was with SSU. Then when SSU was folded i'nto CIA under the National Security Act of 1947, I became a member the first day. G: Would you describe

Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new board. The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera- tions of the federal government. B: Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in those

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

/loh/oh 3 P: I first met Mr. Johnson when he was a senator. I appeared before the Armed Services Committee in a hearing at which he was presiding, and to be perfectly frank, I don't recall the subject matter. It had something to do

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of West Virginia. Of course, Randolph is chairman of the Senate Public Works Committee, and Byrd has gained more and more of a role over there in the Senate. in some dam. I've forgotten the name of it. They were interested I'd been identified to them
Biographical information; duties in Manpower & Reserve Affairs; civil works program; overcrowding at Arlington National Cemetery; McNamara; Project 100,000; Adam Yarmolinsky; Steve Ailes; Senator Richard Russell; Mr. Vinson; Operation Transition

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, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was at a National Security Council meeting in the White House shortly after that. I can't remember what the subject was, but I remember meeting him on that occasion. I did meet him then subsequently, socially I think, at Averell Harriman's house and saw him from

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

of State--which was twice in '59 and '60 on the State Department Appropriation Bill. He was the chairman of the subcommittee of the Senate's Appropriation Committee, that handled that particular bill. that, as well as the Foreign Aid Bill. Those two

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in either time or place, and was it within the sphere of our national interests? R: I think we significantly underestimated the difficulty of what we were trying to do. We significantly underestimated the difficulty that arises from the fact

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

thought as a manner of planning--to assist in planning--the faculty committees and the administration, location of buildings, maximum usage of the land--At that time we had the Brooks, Barr, Graeber, and White firm who were doing that. Both Mr. Brooks

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

basis in 1954. M: How did you know Arthur Burns? P: Through professional contact. My thesis was published as a paper in one of the volumes that the National Bureau had published four or five years earlier. I had met him at meetings and so
Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to his wife, so it was a combination of patronage and nepotism, I guess. But I came back as Chief Counsel to the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress that Senator Monroney chaired and was there for two years until our bill passed the Senate
; LBJ’s efforts to get bills through Congress; Secretary Freeman and Secretary Udall resented staff arrangement; Udall’s proposal to use Antiquities Act to acquire land for national monuments; Secret Service protection legislation for Presidential

Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Is that possible? Well, traditionally and for as long as I have been in the Coast Guard and I guess for almost all of its history the Coast Guard has become a part of the Navy in times of national emergency or when the President directs it. But the nature of our
; maintaining aids to navigation system; license all Merchant Marines Personnel; four programs of marine safety area; private recreational craft; Maritime Administration; investigating accidents; National Transportation Safety Board; LBJ’s personal interest

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

was twenty-nine years of age. I have often thought. that as today in a federal agency it is essential to have a woman executive and a black executive, so in the National Youth Administration, it was essential to have a young executive. symbol of youth. I
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that add a card to use in this area? A: Well, you see, Congress is the one that has a great deal of power so far as trade is concerned. The Bulgarians were especially anxious to get the most-favored nation status which they were constantly wanting

Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a committee which was actually called the Trueheart 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, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in connection with the Preparedness Subcommittee of which he was chairman. I testified before him on many occasions. I got to know him in that sense of the word, which was not particulary intimately, but I did see enough of his work in the field of national

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, 1985 INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM J. JORDEN INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Ambassador Jorden's residence, McLean, Virginia Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: McGeorge Bundy was on the original public affairs committee that was dealing with Vietnam, I think
McGeorge Bundy and the public affairs committee; Bill Moyers; press coverage of Vietnam; Dan Duc Khoi; Bui Diem; improving methods for transmitting news; American journalists from other countries; Morley Safer and Mike Wallace; Vietnam Psychological

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

activities, I was the chairman of the committee that selected the Thayer Award recipient each year at West Point. And in that year I was chairman--I had been chairman the previous year, too--we selected General MacArthur as the recipient. On this trip I

Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: DOUGLAS PIKE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Pike's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Would you recount how you came to enter government service? P: I worked for the United Nations in Korea during the Korean War and then came

Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: INTERVIEWEE: MICHAEL FORRESTAL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Forrestal's .office, Shearman and Sterling, 53 Wall Street, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You're Michael Forrestal. You were a Far Eastern expert with the National Security
Chairman Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee on Vietnam in March 1964; his duty to brief VP on Far East; after T.G. massacre in 1961 had two jobs: to dredge information from Ambassador Averell Harriman and to brief Congress and VP; painful

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