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Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

made was very late at that big meeting that was finally staged in Houston at the Astrodome. I was there. F: That must have been in October, pretty close to the end. P: I think so, pretty close to the end. at that time. Johns.on made a very fine

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

under DCSOPS [Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans]? D: Well, what happened was that I came back from commanding the First Battle Group, Thirtieth Infantry, in the Third Division because Bill [William B.] Rosson, who at that time in Europe

Oral history transcript, Julian J. Ewell, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Our division headquarters at that time was at a place called Bear Cat which was east of Saigon, and things were pretty quiet in that area. They'd sort of gotten themselves reorganized after Tet. But shortly after I arrived I was sent down to the Delta

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, I do. Field Marshall Sullivan. Did you ever hear that? S: He kept the what? G: The fuses for the bombs. S: He couldn't have. These missions were flown from Thailand one time. There were two missions a week. The air force would fly one from

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

time I met President Johnson was in the 1960 campaign. I was the advance man for President Kennedy's first trip into Texas, into Houston. At least I advanced the Houston stop, and the Houston stop took on some rather critical importance because

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

for émigrés from [the communist] bloc, who were then to be sent back in the bloc. If you remember that time, this was during the Korean War and there was an expectation, or if not an expectation, at least some anxiety that the Russians might do something

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, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

School. M: Thank you. by 1939. You received your M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard, and you did this Do I have all this background information correct? K: So far. M: I know there is much more to add and I was more or less touching upon times. K: You

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, relatively, for me to raise hell about it, because what the hell! Dean was deeply involved with Vietnam, an Arab-Israeli war, and with Pueblo , and things like that, and why should I take up his time with things which, in the long run, were not truly

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was the last one and the most successful one--they got statehood almost right away after they did that. So he decided that the thing for Alaska to do was to do that. However, about the time he decided that this was the thing to do, statehood was very close

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and wife relationship. I am sure she was a constant counselor; she was present at times of great stress. I know for example the early morning hours when Senator Kennedy was shot and the following day when the announcement had been made of his death

Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

time to time I would send memoranda giving my thoughts on speeches or anything else for that matter directly to the President, always providing the Secretary of State with a copy of what I sent the President, so from then on I followed this channel

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to let Jim [H. Rowe, Jr.?], who came out of that breed and at the same time was a westerner and Lyndon's man--if Lyndon had said to Jim, "Jim, you recruit me and let you, not me, deal with them, so that my oddities of relationship are insulated. Jim, you

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

become a highly unpopular subject with the American public. present Another one is that when you're dealing with foreign aid at the time~ you necessarily are dealing with the lesser developed countries; so that the normal supporters of foreign aid

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: BARRY GOLDWATER INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Senator Goldwater's office in the old Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Senator, you came to the Senate the same time as Lyndon Johnson, in 1948. G: No, I-- F: You

Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

that up for a little while but not very long. M: He took your advice for a short time? R: Oh, yes, because we were close friends, and he had respect for m-y judgment. M: Did you visit him in the hospital after the attack? R: No, I didn't visit him

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for Peace Program and then you were elected to the Senate in 1962, where you served since and reelected in this last fall of 1968. In that time, or prior to that time you came to government, during your service in the House, did you have any occasion

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on and so on. Z: Right. G: Khe Sanh was coming in for an awful lot of attention about this time, too, and there have been criticisms of that coverage. What was good or bad about the press coverage at Khe Sanh? Z: One, on the impact of Tet on public

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Was that sensitive with regard to the subject matter or the congressman or senator involved? D: Mostly the subject matter, mostly the subject matter, because I had had some experiences in the Kennedy years and I'd been burned a couple of times. So we straightened

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

, one is for Demonstration and Intergovernmental Relations and Model Cities. T: Well, Demonstrations and Governmental Relations was the title at the time of appointment. Internally it was later shifted to Model Cities and Governmental Relations. Mc

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

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/loh/oh 2 agriculture research during which time I wrote a number

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

all the time: he kept his options open. Even on some of the things that other people may look at as relatively insignificant, he still kept his options open and the decisions were his. You know, for a reporter or writer where he used to go out--and I

Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the efforts of those who proposed legislation that would strike down-B: What about his part in the 1957 Civil Rights Act? M: He fought, as you may recall, a number of proposals at that time for the civil rights program. I don't have it before me

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that there was some unusual activity going on at this time, but to the best of my knowledge we never put any number on it. We didn't say twenty thousand, twenty-five thousand. G: What kind of activity was this, what form? D: Actually it was people, divisions moving

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, but-T: By recollection is about three ,veeks. It could have been four, but roughly three '-lecks. F: So there's a lot of time to whittle and hone. T: That's right. And you'll recall that, at least the aftermath accounts indicate they uere r

Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

since what date, G: About the first of July, I don't recall, 1966. but at any rate, sir? Maybe it was the first of August. the middle of 1966. M: And you had previously been with the Agency since what time? G: 1961. In 1961 I was appointed

Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

or grants of any consequence--that is $5- or $10,000,000-and a little later all PL 480, Food for Peace sales and grants--I should say sales of any size. It was initiated, I believe, because of his desire to have a close personal control over the timing

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

thought, "Well, that's cheap. She'd pay a hundred for it in America." So I just took it right there. And after I had paid him he looked at me and he said, "You've only been in our country a short time I can tell. You didn't handle this very well. You mind

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 19, 1968 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Mr. Goldstein of the White House staff. This, like all previous ones, is confidential until otherwise notified. Mr. Goldstein, you said last time that when

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it's going to take time to get information, but they're welcome to sit here. And maybe--I said to myself--if I talk enough they'll give up. But they stayed, and they stayed. We talked, and I went back to the phone and did some work. It was at about, I

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

. As a result we began discussing, as soon as the messages to the Congress were completed in about March of '67, changes we ought to make, or procedures, as well as the structure of our office. At the time we hired two additional assistants, Fred Bohen

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

1959 when I first got assigned to strategic intelligence. At that time, the argument was about what we should do in Laos, which resulted in the agreements on Laos, so I was connected with that to a certain degree. And at that time

Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and I remember General [Maxwell] Taylor telling him so in rather brutal terms. G: Do you recall the occasion for that? N: Yes, it was at the time of the Taylor-Rostow mission. -~ 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

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

. But by the time I got there I realized I should do a broader book. That was Viet Congo From then on, of course, as long as the war continued, I was labeled an expert on the Viet Cong and experienced in Vietnam. get out of the field. So I couldn't I spent

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape 3) January 11, 1969 M: This is the third session with the Secretary of Transportation, Alan Boyd . The date is January 11, and the time is 2 :30. To continue where we left off again, I was asking you about the forming

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

frequently with Thieu in confidence, trying to persuade, to influence, but would defer to him as president and head of the armed forces, the image we were trying to build. It was an anomaly. Thieu would eventually accept my advice, but he wanted a time

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

from President Nixon, to complete its task no later than December 6th or 10th or something of the sort. I think it's necessary because the scope of the commission's work exceeds anything, I think, that even President Johnson had in mind at the time he

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

: professionally, politically, and certainly personally. B: In the times you've been associated with government, generally, have you found Mr. Johnson to be knowledgeable on agricultural affairs? M: Yes, he is. B: Even down into the technicalities? M: Yes

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

did. I worked with a guy named Oudone Sananikone--O-U-D-O-N-E S-A-N-A-N-I-K-O-N-E--who was a lieutenant colonel in the army at the time, and who was a wonderful guy. some success with that program. politics and other problems. We had But that mired

Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to everybody. I extended the study so that it wasn't just a study of cul- tural affairs officers, but of the functions of educational and cultural diplomacy generally. I turned it in on time. President Kennedy was dead. By that time, of course, I turned