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Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a week with the department heads. I was always kept informed. a glamour boy. I must admit that that's not the way to become It's just hard work from morning until night, and you don't run around the country making speeches. work. So that You pay

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

fifteen reports, and we were not only able to read the reports for the first time and not just the summaries, but we had enough time to think about them and to develop more fully some of the ideas, enlarge them, and ask the Departments and agencies

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

of the people he checked it out with didn't know any more about it than he did, and they all read it, and they all arrived at the same conclusion. ''Well, it's okay." F: I know that the State Department and the White House go to great lengths to see

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

given to some of the women on the trip, women reporters. We went all the way around the world and when we were coming back, our last night out, we stopped in Bermuda. was a little party. As sometimes happens on those trips, there Those of us

Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

crisis of great importance that lasts for a period of time 1 L: In that particular thing the President was kept fully informed at all times as to what was going on, partly by the Secretary personally at these Tuesday luncheons. We would get reading

Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in early 1965 but neither side really knew it? D: Well, I don't know. He may have said that. The ironic thing is that in Stanley Karnow's book [Vietnam: A History?], which I'm sure you've read, a fellow named Bui Tin came into--and incidentally, he's

Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

occasions, and there were no benefits in that for him. He believed it was important. He might hurt you on lesser legislation, but when you needed the AID Bill. . .Gosh, I remember one night when the AID conference was in deep trouble and he wasn't one

Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

thing in those days, when you're very young. The school was at the end of Spook Lane and was then known as the Spook Lane School. Then after having gone to a really very poor high school in the county seat, Reading, Pennsylvania, I went to Swarthmore

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

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Well, I think by that time I understood its multifaceted aspects, because I had read a lot and I had talked to a lot of people. So I think I had a fairly clear

Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

mind that he wasn't going to accept or negotiate anything less than a victory and that he would do whatever he could. Now, I tried to clear up this confusion in the paper edition of the book. M: Why, I haven't even seen the paper edition. I read

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

not as prominent as many of the jobs you read about going to so-and-so. Mc Was this at Mr. Johnson's direction? M: I'm sure it was, although I think Mr. Macy came in under Mr. Kennedy. But certainly President Johnson not only continued his employment, but made

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

for the conduct of non-foreign affairs, really. It was If you look D W the Constitution and you really read the contemporary writings and opininns that are expressed, you can see that one of the great anxieties of the Founding Fathers, so-called, Z D V

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

be more frightened of the evil one knows than the evil one knows not of?" M: Hard to believe he had been reading Hamlet. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Department about seve n or eigh t o'clo ck that night and put it all do.wn • . He had said to me, "I don 't want this memorandum to go through anybody else . This is a M: S: memorandum that must come from you dire ctly to me. Not even through

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the Pakistanis, as well as the United States. But I remember he had a talk with President Diem and I remember reading copy about it. But I don't remember having any particular talks at that time. The most intimate relationships that I had with the President

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

, and McGeorge Bundy, and there was Ross Gilpatric, and McNamara, and several others on the staff of the White House in the Office of Science and Technology and the Defense Department. We had been to the White House on Wednesday night to a reception and had

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

." G: I was about to ask-- P: And he said, Warfare]. II I'm (Laughter) Well , here's Paul Linebarger's book on it [Psychological Read it and then try to figure out how you might apply something to the Vietnamese situation." So I studied

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

or the Quadriad or anything like that? S: To the best of my recollection we had not. And I'm almost positive, I'm virtually certain this came as a surprise to everybody. There may have been a few hours notice or maybe the night before notice, this sort

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

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think we're dealing with this poor old dumb cluck, he doesn't know how to do anything, he's taking us in. It's just as plain as night but you can't get [inaudible] all it is. And same as I told you I think, I'm sure I did. The closing paragraph

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

is somewhere between 12,000 and 20,000 men a year who now read at the fifth grade level or below and who, according to the experience of the first six months, can be raised two grade levels in reading ability in a matter of two or three weeks. This is rather

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

Bundy gave us a copy of the speech to read beforehand. Of course, we were pleased, because the tone of the speech was the first break, first indication, of a presidential willingness to negotiate a settlement. We were very pleased. Then we went

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

, the VC are in terrible shape." We could read the communications along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and it was perfectly obvious that they were having one terrible time, because people from South Vietnam were going to go back up that trail come hell or high

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. commanding personality. I He was obviously a very I remember the surprise that I felt that he also had so much charm which I hadn't read about or hadn't realized. P: You are a very close friend with the Vice President, Mr. Humphrey. A: Yes, I've known

Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with the landing anyway. The landing force was supposed to have air cover during the landings which meant that they had to take off around midnight in Central America to get up there by daylight. And the night before, this air cover was called off because

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

at all. He used to take a stack of material down on the beach and sit there with one yeoman and read what had to be acted upon and dictate the answer right now, and out it went. He didn't even proofread it. He just dictated the answer

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh -18- At the rally he had that night in Boston, there was a big overflow rally with thousands outside unable to get in. And he had evidenced by his leadership in the Senate a refreshing and courageous, progressive leadership

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was for the NYA, because he had been closer to it. r noticed, incidentally, in reading today's paper that Carey, our new governor, was an NYA boy, got through college on the NYA. After a certain amount of time, we had a great many members of Congress who had

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

~ In I took courses in land economics and several courses in planning, planning principles--not the drafting board type courses but the concept courses and reading courses. I wanted to work in the housing area. I came down to Washington looking

Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of their own choice and rule themselves as they please to do, without any interference from outside sources, including the United States. That hasn't yet been achieved, but I believe it is still the present administration's policy, from what I read. haven't

Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, as well as in things like AID, OEO, some of the HEW programs. B: In thi s area of hunger and food for the poor, it seems, to sort of an outsider just reading the papers and all, that the Agriculture Department LBJ Presidential Library http

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

in the state and readily identifiable with him as our oil capital of the Rockies as we call it, you know. The now President running in 1964 also took it upon himself to meet privately with the oil boys in Casper, and he really got rough with them. He read

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

thing about the Vietnamese communists is that if there is an easy way to get up a mountain and a hard way, they'll always go the hard way and they always expect to go twice as fast as anybody else. hopes and expectations are enormous. Their We read

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

also made a trip to Vietnam in 1961. Did you ever have occasion to talk to him about his trip there? J: No, I didn't. I never had a chance to talk to him about that trip. have read about it, of course, and read reports on it. I But I haven't

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. B: Later used against him, and it was certainly the truth . said, At any rate he "Now look, let's focus on this, let's look hard at it, let's see what we can do better ." He read a very strong message--I've heard it described as a sort of riot

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

reporters and col urnni sts and so forth up t'Jhen they were crit; ca 1 of him, letting them know that he's been reading their articles and didn't like it. Did he ever do that with you? R: No, never had it happen. I had it happen with Kennedy. I doubt

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

got to give a story without much substance and satisfy these guys. Was there ever a problem with a leak, that you recall, during your tenure? J: There was a little trouble, and I don't remember what it was, and I don't know even if I read the record