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Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on the part of some of my associates as to whether or not this was a good idea, and what sort of a return we would get, we put this out as a contest to the ninety-odd thousand people through � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • must say with the wisdom of hindsight--I may be a little parochial on it--that the Middle East trip was quite successful. It was beginning of my association with Lyndon Johnson. F: That's what I wanted to ask. He was dissatisfied with his staff help
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • times. He's being a part of some of the most signifi- cant and moving events of his generation. a lot of very fine people. the most significant one. Secondly, he's Third, he's associating with Now clearly the first of those is by all odds I think
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . the National Association of Broadc3sters. I believe it was Ilm not clear in my mind about that-F: He amplified a little bit from the March 31 speech; he enlarged a little on what was said there. T: Correct. He decided that he would go out there. I think
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, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • guidance, of a thousand and one different things. And he did institute a system of the five-year force level and financial plan and a number of management tools which enabled him and his associates to see where the major issues were and be able to intervene
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , in addition to which, since a number of my assistants and I had been associated wi t h various of these agencies in one way or another in the past, we knew a fair amount about them. And some of the fellows had very strong feelings about the competence
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the American Medical Association. G: He was a believer in waiting until you had the votes, I guess. L: Yes, he was. G: Now, he went to a party at your house in February, 1964, the same day He believed in it, but he didn't have the votes. that he sent
  • The genesis of the Heart, Cancer and Stroke Commission; Dr. Michael DeBakey; goals of funding national clinical research; influence of the American Medical Association and the National Institutes of Health; Dr. James Shannon; LBJ’s interest
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Association of American Medical Colleges gave me its Abraham Fletcher Award, which is their highest award. And they cited the fact that I had authored and passed sixty major pieces of health legislation. B: Yes, sir. When I was doing this research on you
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • happened to come to Washington. I'd been associated with a nonprofit manage- ment consulting firm in Chicago for about a year and planned to go back. In the meantime, "the head of the company became assistant director of the Budget Bureau, which
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • association of Vietnamese Buddhists was a new organization. There had never been any such hierarchy. Buddhist bonzes in the provinces were their own bosses. The They did their own funerals, their own marriages, weddings and so forth. I had numerous
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to. Tnese are voluntary associations. We want the members to take an active democratic role in th~peration of the unions. And yet in a time of inflationary pressures, people trying to leap-frog wage settlements one after another, it has made it darned
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a number of radical students and students who were associated with either very left-wing or pacifist groups that were terribly active. I've often felt that a lot of them simply did not want to serve in the armed forces of the United States
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • associated with that program. P: Does one of these stand out in your mind? F: Yes. It must have been in the spring of '67. The President the preceding fall had ordered a halt to new construction projects, not only in the Army's civil works program
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to associate with President Johnson on a more-or-less personal basis? W: I had occasion to see him and talk to him once in Vietnam when he carne to Cam Ranh Bay. I talked to him for a few minutes. Then midway in my tour--I think it was February '66--1
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • worthy of note that my boy was endorsed by the District of Columbia Bar Association. And I say he was, in my book, eminently qualified. He'd gone to St. Albans here in Washington, he'd gone to Williams College in Massachusetts, graduated, went
Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to be changed in their thinking, you know. I: You introduced in one of your earlier characterizatons of Mr. Johnson his distrust of people with the intellectual community and those in the East associated with Harvard and so on. all these people? Can you
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by the President's attitude. Mu: So even those that might have been conservative otherwise turned out under his influence to be maybe more sympathetic than it had appeared? :(,1e: Yes. I would say that personally this association lasted right from the minute he
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • correct. M: Before we go into your association with Lyndon Johnson, 1 would like to ask if you have participated in any other oral history project? W: I participated in an oral history project that was conducted after the assassination of President
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , and it was a very major effort. Those who had been associated with the Hells Canyon fight, both pro and con, were there on the floor when the speech was gi yen. Many, i ncl uding Wayne r,10rse of Oregon who had been a chief sponsor of the bill, were very
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • occasion very soon after that to see Wilson alone once or twice, through the accident that I was at that time the president of the Association of American Correspondents in London. We were about to have our annual dinner, and I had to_go to Downing
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . And then it goes on to prescribe corrective measures, but they don't really make much sense. before. They are what they'd been saying For example, instead of, "We're going to win the war in the shortest possible time," which were the buzz words associated
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • forces. And that we make as a condition that we have associated with uS other industrial powers as allies. P: I'd like to continue with some questions on our preparedness level. Senator Stennis' Subcommittee on Preparedness has said that we
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , police forces, and so we wanted to have a concept that people could understand, and different kinds of forces would be associated with different kind of functions. And search and destroy meant searching for and destroying main-force VC and later NVA units
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . That will be the definitive story of John Paul Vann. My own association with Vann occurred when he first came to Vietnam. I was in the MAAG [Military Assistance Advisory Group] situation in charge of organization and training, a part of the army section. And it took all
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , then of the Federal Reserve System, and its chairman for so many years, and associated so much with economists, and had a very good economics staff, he 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Sulliva~ M: How did you get on that team? S: Yes, from a number of years of association with r1ax Taylor. -- I -- 17 Do you know? sound pretty cliquish if you get all of it. may It Nax Taylor
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in conservation. R: Over 50 years. I was a member of the old American Game Association, and I was on the Advisory Committee of the Biological Survey. I was on the Commis sion to buy refuges - -the National Migratory Bird Commission to buy refuges and pass
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • them, they consider you're always against them. Me Senator, I know you've had a close association and interest in aviation problems and the SST--the Supersonic Transport. Did this come up during the Vice Presidential years? M: I rode the airplanes
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in, say, farm equipment or farm organizations, very often farmer associations of various kinds including commodity groups, farm cooperatives, and such. We attempt to use the entire array of resources available in this country--public, private, academic
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was a cover for something else--as I remember was a specialist on Mongolian problems. And that was as close as any of the people in Kosygin's entourage came to having any association with Asia. So it was quite clear, or seemed quite clear to Wilson
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to decide. But I believe that if--we11, I believe that they should have a much closer association with the United States, and I believe that they really want to, particularly if we act fairly soon. Whether they should be a territory like Guam or whether
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Johnson saying something about General LeMay. C: Well, it actually dates back to an earlier time than the presidency; it goes back to when he was the vice president. G: That's fine. C: I had been associated with the Vice President about four or five