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Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the afternoon. The date is March 4, and the time My name is David McComb. P: The year is 1969. M: Yes, you might add that, 1969--somebody may wish to know that 50 years from now. First of all, I'd like to know something about your background, where were

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

] Clifford's time it has had a chance to demonstrate how smoothly it could work and without being further changed. Mr. Clifford came in a year ago, and the transition was very smooth indeed, and the whole Department mobilized itself to his support; and I LBJ

Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of Texas, attended the meeting and shook the then-Senator Johnson's hand. The meeting was very casual and he would have no reason to remember meeting me. The next time I shook Senator Johnson's hand was when he was a candidate for vice president

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

of knowledge, why I had no interest particularly in Stevenson until I heard this midnight speech which was, I think, one of the great speeches of all times. Instantly I took up the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

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

have held this time since 1967, but earlier you held it from 1957 to 1961? Ma: Yes. I've been in it about two years this time, not quite two years. That's right. M: October '57 until February '61 the first time. Let's go back to that first time

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Convention, because they were having a problem with the r'~ississippi Freedom Democratic Party and that the President's, President Johnson, major concern at the convention was to keep that from blowing the convention apart. At that time and until

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

to that, in the immediate past, you had served as Ambassador to OEeD and then prior to that in the Kennedy Administration, both as Director for the United States and the World Bank for a short time-L: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs

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

to get him out of the country . And I was chargé at the time ; so it was very interesting . F: And then to Quito? B: Yes, then I went to Quito as Deputy Chief of the Mission . F: Did you anywhere--we'll move ahead--prior to 1960, ever run

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to step into the breach with tight money and really slowed the economy down consid erably; so much so that 1967 became the year of the famous "mini recession. II By that time, we had persuaded the President to propose a tax increase

Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

1949 consecutively. H: That's correct. M: Which happens to be the same year that Mr. Johnson went to the Senate, He was a freshman there at the same time you were here. How well did you know Mr. Johnson in the early years of your career? H: Really

Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, but there was no direct personal M: No direct personal reaction . reaction . You were a consultant for the State Department at various times during that period . B: Yes . M: Did any of those tasks bring you in direct contact with him? B: No . M: Not until you

Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in 1954. M: Right. Is that correct? How well did you get a chance to know Mr. Johnson in the period when he was still leader of the Senate and you were a young Congressman? D: I had occasion to needle him many times because at that time he

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

Building in Washington, D.C. The date is December 2, 1968, and the time is 1:30 p.m. First of all, Dr. Stewart, I'd like to know something about your background. S: Where were you born and when? I was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 19, 1921, grew

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh advisor to many of us and was well versed in the history of China at that time. [He] predicted pretty accurately what was about to happen
relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

known then-Senator Johnson, he called upon me from time to time to advise him with respect to matters, frequently dealing with civil rights, which was not a particular expertise of mine except that I had worked on the restrictive covenant case which had

Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh THOMSON -- I -- 3 I stayed on his staff and on loan from State till he, in due course, pulled out and I inherited Mr. Rostow. But just about the time, coincidentally, of Mac Bundy's decision

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

as to whether or not to deploy the Anti-Ballistic Missile System; a similar meeting recently at the time of the decision to suspend bombing totally in North Vietnam. And at the occasion of the using of Army forces in Detroit at the time of the civil disorders

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

: Before that time you'd served from time to time in government service along with your career in the Law School at Yale. Did you have any prior personal relationship with Mr. JohnsonZ R: No, I didn't. M: You hadn't had any occasion politically

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

as a legal secretary, and she was on the law review. G: I think that's accurate. I suspect that the time I finished high school had more to do with my going into teaching than anything else, because it was the acceptable, the respectable thing for a woman

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Jorden -- II -- 3 interviewing people, looking at documents, trying to find out as a reporter what the hell was going on here. G: Did you use the same techniques that you would have if you had been researching a story for the New York Times or--? J

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

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh February 17, 1969 M: This is the third session with Frederick Deming. home in Washington, D.C. I am now in his The time is 2:25 in the afternoon, and the date is February 17, 1969, and I am David McComb. We were going

Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh Thurmond -- I -- 2 they felt the nominee would be sure to be elected. At that time the nominee would normally have been elected but in view of the special circumstances arising we were able to win the race. Senator [Burnet R.] Maybank died

Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

know, when the time came, after we'd gotten into this, to me, inexcusable and unjustified war, I sought an opportunity to give him what I thought was the proper policy. He listened very attentively and carefully, and--this is recorded in the book--I

Oral history transcript, Keith Waller, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. There was a time, I would say 1965-66, where, because of your anxiety on balance of payments problems, it appeared likely that the flow of American capital might have to be diminished. flow has continued. In point of fact, that I think we've been treated very

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

Johnson in my life, and there it was. I knew very well George Reedy, and a large part of my time in Washington, until he left the White House, I'd seen a great deal of George and was very fond of him. He \'las very useful to me becaus:? George

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

thereof. Both Korea and the South Vietnamese episode became highly unpopular during their course. I'm not sure that the Korean war wasn't even more unpopular than the Vietnamese war at the time; many people have forgotten that since. Obviously no one would

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

and Reserve Affairs. Mr. Fitt, you were appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense by President Johnson and approved by the Senate on October 6, 1967, which is just over a year ago. Prior to that time, from '61 to '63, you were a Deputy Assistant Secretary

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but at the time, there were there some people who were available for assignment to what at that time was something of a backwater, or at least a place that traditionally had been something of a backwater. G: Did you know Ambassador [Frederick] Nolting? F: Yes
. to Vietnam for the first time; Victor Krulak-Joseph Mendenhall visit; Jocko [John] Richardson and John Mecklin; Rufus Phillips; General Paul Harkins; Mike Dunn; Bill Trueheart; security for Ambassador Lodge; Lou Conein; coup of 1963 and meeting Diem an hour

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

with him for a year. I got a year's leave of absence from my law firm and did just that, and twenty-one years later I was still in the government. I guess the reason is that I like government, I think it's a very exciting way to devote one's time

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the John F. Kennedy Oral History Project, and I assume you have made a tape for it. 0: Yes, I have already. I did not particularly touch on President Johnson. B: Yes. We'll probably cover some of the same time from a different point of view

Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to it. B= All right sir. Have you had at any time during your career any direct contact with Mr. Johnson, either as a Congressman or Vice President or President? W: Yes, I have had some, they've been rather infrequent. While Lyndon Johnson

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

at that time was in the Treasury Department. So he invited me to join the Budget Bureau 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, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--the following people: Governor Stevenson, l"Ir. Rayburn, Grace Tully, the driver, and myself. And we drove to the Ranch in Johnson City. F: What was Grace Tully's role in this? M: She was, at the time, I think, one of LBJ's secretaries. had, of course

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

impression of Mr. Johnson? M: Well, he made a very profound impression from the outset upon his colleagues, and of course at that time the leadership knew about him, and he made a very profound impression, favorable impression, and his interest in committee

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

it says something about being suspicious of labels, and I am. I am just now working on an autobiographical book in which I say even good labels are bad for you because they limit you. I guess I hope I defy all labels. There was a time when I used

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

GOLDSCHMIDT (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Goldschmidt's horne in New York City November 6, 1974 MG: Let's start from the beginning and the first time you met Lyndon Johnson. EG: Well, I met him in a very characteristic way

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

in the United States until 1961, when I returned to Vietnam and stayed until 1964. At that time, I switched over from the military, wearing a soldier suit, to staying in the military but actually working for the State Department. I went back again in 1965

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

this with Kennedy, when he heard that Johnson was ready to do it, had names of people for the Heart, Cancer and Stroke Commission, and he was all ready with the Executive Order. Of course, the Surgeon General at the time wasn't at all in favor

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that the record, if it's correct--and hopefully Neil Sheehan will give it to us chapter and verse; he's been working on a book about Vann for a considerable period of time. And hopefully that book will see the light of day sometime within the next twelve months

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

that you made, and you may remember making it; you may not. J: Doubtless not. G: You said that at times the media reports coming out of Vietnam had been more accurate than our official statements. And I wondered if you had anything specific in mind

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