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Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , or dissident State Department people. What happened was our sources became the people who were in the field, and who, finding that their pessimism was not being paid attention to by their superiors, turned increasingly to the press corps. Neil Sheehan
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
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, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • can't settle for neutralism when your military affairs are going downhill. Lodge mentioned many times, "If the French had had a conference on neutralism with the Germans, who were occupying France in 1943, it wouldn't have been so good
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Julian J. Ewell, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , who was State Department, didn't know anything about pacification but he was a quick learner, and we finally figured out the four or five forcing elements in the HES system and concentrated on those, at my direction. agreed. Well, I talked him
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of the JCS to the secretary of defense for international affairs, Mr. McNolly. G: [John] McNaughton, was it, McNaughton? S: Yes. McNaughton. Then go across the river to the State Department and the White House. G: Who would approve it at State? S
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • never know who the enemy is. The enemy is the Defense Department. the State Department. The enemy is the 001." The enemy is Then he looked up and I snorted, and they had to stop the class and start over again. (Laughter) That myth was very much
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • at such times as I've met him officially over in the appointment secretary's office. As you know, we're responsible here for all the military affairs that go on and, of course, I have tried to get out of his way at a few of these when he has taken the time
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE #3) Nov. 14, 1968 P: Mrs, Anderson, why have not more women gone into foreign relations or foreign affairs, and why weren't there any sooner than your appointment in 1949? A: I suppose one
Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Fortunately, many that were elected in that year are still with us. F: Could you use Johnson to go out and help you raise money? S: No, I never did that. I remember he did come to a fund-raising affair with Sam Rayburn in New York once, for the purpose
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 3 (III), 12/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that is politically important in Mexico is that Mexico does not tolerate the intervention of some other country in its internal affairs, which is a position natural for them to take because they're LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was due for relief. Mike had already retired once, he was on retired status then, and he had been out there for a couple of years and Department of the Army thought there should be a change. I said there was no particular reason I shouldn't go, except
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to the council, OEO was then more and more required to devise the agenda, and then this simply seemed to encourage the others in believing that it was an OEO forum. very difficult to break. So it was a round robin affair that was Specific requests to the other
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the governmental presence in the wake of the Viet Minh pulling out . B: Well, as I recall, Rufe Phillips was sort of their rural affairs expert . He came back later in that role, too, but I don't recall much about what he actually did except that, as good
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and several people that were strong Stevensonians. We had a number of them. to look up the records to give you all-- I would have It grew into quite a good affair. We ran sort of a secret campaign in the headquarters space that was given to us to try
Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and was interested in its communication process. I began to collect materials on it, and after about three years [IJ had a great filing cabinet full. So I asked the State Department to send me to MIT to do a book strictly on the NLF communication matrix
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • mean in the clergy, although we certainly had an interest in it. My grandfather had a driving interest in his students taking an active part in public affairs, whether political or administrative. The record of Groton boys is certainly remarkable
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the war through the time of his death. M: r~r. Bartl ett, your newspaper career has certai nly been concerned for a large part with Washington, heads of government and politics, and foreign affairs and domestic problems, so I would like to emphasize
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • - national Affairs at Princeton on the expropriation of American property in Cuba in 1959. After the election and the inaugural in 1961, Bill and Sarge were very helpful getting me interviews with certain people I needed in the State Department for my
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • we're doing, of course, is just trying to fill in pieces here and there in the affair. We have your book on Alaska and its coming to statehood, and so I thought we'd just emphasize your association with Johnson in this. When did you first meet him? G
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with the Kennedy Administration, who either still worked for him or who were in the process of departing through this six or eight month period? Newspapermen, too, I suppose, who had been Kennedy loyalists? A: I don't know that--no, I don't think
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the Five in Saigon? O'Clock Follies . 0: 1 did ; not every day, but I did, when there wasn't something else going on . G: Can you give an overall 0: Well, impression of how valuable those were? it's a little bit like the State Department noon
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and director of the Institute of International Affairs for my twelve years on the campus. F: Were you active in Wyoming politics? M: Only as a voting Democrat. I was a registered voting Democrat, as I had been for many years, although my family in Nebraska
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was a part of what was known as Rural Affairs, which had to do with AID personnel and programs throughout the countryside. So I was, number one, interested in it, and number two, had some experience with it. Of course, when MACV came into being, the decision
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Secretary for Political Affairs in about April of '65, just before the Dominican thing ; and for a period, the Governor did specialty things, as I recall. . I'm not clear . He may have been given a broad mandate in the area of negotiation in July of '65
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- I -- 2 occupy, and that must have been 1946 or 1947. By the time I was in college and began to get really interested in public affairs, like a lot of other people, it certainly wasn't
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Department. The Wise Men, some thirteen in number, including ex-Justice Arthur Goldberg, were briefed by three people: Phil Habib, William DePuy, and George Carver. in the evening around a table. It took place And [I'll] skip Habib's and Carver's
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • affairs, because the Secretary of State was there. pretty wide ranging conversation. So that it would be a It was from these meetings, I think that he derived the information that gave him the bases for many of the decisions that he took. M: Did
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • microfilm cameras; then we need something to look at our film on; and then we need readers. I understand that the Kodak Company is involved in this and has a big research department doing nothing but this." This interested him a lot, and he said, "Would
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, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , but these occasions were usually when matters of legislative or political nature were being discussed. Now, these luncheons were very interesting affairs because the range of problems discussed was not confined to the military at all, but went right across the full
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • affairs. M: And I'd like a comment on that. My answer to that is--or explanation of it is that the whole set of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • Foreign Relations Committee; 1966 Vietnam trip; Tonkin Gulf Incident; schools of thought regarding LBJ; succeeding JFK; dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs; investigation of chain store situation; Chicago convention
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in international affairs, more concerned with domestic things. Did you find him pretty well versed in what was going on at that particular assignment that you accompanied him on? H: Yes, I found him very well versed; and I also found his knowledge of how things
  • liability; press assassinated LBJ politically; JFK legislation; investigation of Adam Clayton Powell; Hays’ feud with Romney; briefing of Foreign Affairs Committee by Secretary of State; LBJ’s hostility toward Senate Foreign Relations Committee; advice
Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that episode later? By that time, you were already, through you activities in foreign affairs, one of the well-known critics of the policy in Vietnam. Regarding your foreign affairs service and work on that committee, was there some specific episode in regard
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 3 F: Some of his opponents have claimed that he lacked an understanding of foreign affairs, that he was the parochial politician, or at least a domestic politician. I judge you wouldn't
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 M: Did he discuss with you your qualifications for this? K: No. He asked me if I wanted to be Assistant Secretary of State for Cultural Affairs
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • voting and then compare it. I used to tease him about that. F: How did he take it? G: He didn't take it very well. F: I can imagine. Did he show much interest in foreign affairs in those senatorial days? G: Yes, he did. In fact, he showed a great
  • understanding of foreign affairs; Melasky's efforts to educate the public regarding Vietnam; LBJ's vice-presidency; LBJ's familiarity with military operations; John Tower; Ralph Yarborough; 1964 election and campaign; comparing the economy of 1960's to 1971
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in '64 you picketed the White House in connection with the pickrick Restaurant affair. Is that correct, sir? M: Yes, Sir, either '64 or '65. I think it was '64. B: Did you receive any indication of interest from Mr. Johnson at that occasion? M
  • Support of Nixon and Goldwater; contact with LBJ; LBJ and civil rights; Pickrick Restaurant affair; Secretary Gardner; 1968 election; unseating Georgia delegation in 1968 convention; evaluation of LBJ as President; involvement in Vietnam