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

and the terrain, and Palmer was new to the scene. As an example, one of ffly more successful tactical moves was when I foresaw that the -:!nemy would try to take over the two northernmos t prov inces. As I saw thdt coming, we began on a priority basis to build

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, dumb, academic questions and finding out who knew what and so on. So I guess I was probably the first 001 analyst to go overseas, back in 1950. I went to London to set up the exchange of NIEs, the National Intelligence Estimates, which were new

Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

been a camera- Who was your employer in 1966?" or whenever it was. you present in New York City or thereabouts? to see done by you?" "And were Is the film we're about This was a lot of the substance of the trial. It astounded me that I, who

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

that, you still had no response from the President or the White House staff? M: No, sir. [I] never received any response whatsoever. It was somewhat disturbing, knowing that every time you looked at the television and you read news reports about what

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

: INTERVIEWEE: MICHAEL FORRESTAL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Forrestal's .office, Shearman and Sterling, 53 Wall Street, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You're Michael Forrestal. You were a Far Eastern expert with the National Security

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

time to all the Vietnamese, North and South. It is a sort of a combination of Christmas, New Year, and Easter. I've been told by Vietnamese or Southeast Asian experts that this period of family reunification or celebration hadn't been violated

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

Relations Committee] which Humphrey chaired from about 1958, I believe, on until he left the Senate. So she was involved in foreign policy to that degree. handled that subcommittee. She She is now living in New York and keeps running for office up

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

it. As I said, the country was divided by region and somebody was responsible for everybody in the East--New England, the eastern states, Middle West, up to Chicago. Illinois. Then I guess Irv Sprague took the western states from Missouri on, and all

Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Flynn -- I -- 2 force; the exodus of enlisted guys had finished; new guys were coming in, and we were starting to sort out other missions, useful missions. And then about the next event

Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

appeared in the Pentagon Papers that have been in the New York Times. (Laughter) So they pretty much outlined what we wanted to get from the Canadians: a willingness to have their representative on the ICC discuss with Hanoi and the officials in Hanoi

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

Germany have a national nuclear weapon. But I believe also the Navy was rather interested in the MLF because it would involve an expansion of the Navy and would provide a new type of naval nuclear weapons system in addition to the Polaris, because

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

that there was some time ago an article in I believe it was the New York Times which indicated that he asked for a lot more troops than he was given. He had plans as to how he would use those troops, in the event they were made available to him, but he said he

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

knowledge and this can be fed to him under cover story of some sort, although it may be shallow. He knows he must respect this confidence, but it will at least cause him to start looking in a new direction and reorienting his thinking as to how he shall

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

: There again that was a close vote. T: A very close vote. against it. I spoke for it. [Clinton] Anderson of New Mexico led the fight And Lyndon helped to defeat it. G: Do you know how that defeat came? Who the crucial senators were? T: No, I don't

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, although his early record in the Congress would indicate that as a young congressman he was quite liberal and supported all of President Roosevelt's programs, all the New Deal legislation. But by the time he came back to the Senate, I would say that he

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE iP5) July 31, 1969 This is a continued session with Mr. Henry Fowler, former Secretary of the Treasury. The interview is in his office in Goodman Sachs and Com- pany in New York City, 55 Broad Street. The date

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Parallel in 1968. T: Well, I never felt in that period the bombing was doing any real good although it was better than no bombing at all. It was never really effective until the Nixon Administration, when our air force had their new bombs and much

Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

relations with the government, gave up my apartment and town house in New York City and brought everything back down to Washington. the University. Got down for Christmas, and in January I started back at And I felt so good but the last of January

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

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Judd -- III -- 10 [inaudible]. What he said, "In October, 1977 [1917], we parted with the old world. We are moving toward a new world. A communist world. It's all there. We will never part. Never stray away from that path." Now after

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

had a combination of all three of the liberal, moderate, conservative. Now you can't keep all these people, but itls a new ball game in Texas. This is something that's hard for people to realize. Most of Lyndon Johnson's supporters are too old

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 something has been approved that someone omits or overlooks to report to a new President. In the case of the NSA business, Mr. Johnson was forewarned that this was corning over

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

chiefs, because he didn't want the ones hanging on who had been sort of corrupt under the French and so forth. But the net result was that he put in a lot of new people that didn't know what the hell they were doing. They were out of touch. And he cut

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

. I started out, I guess you'd have to say, in something called the Chieu Hoi program, which had to do with getting defectors over on the government side. I did a study on that as my first move in this new role that I was playing, and then from

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

President, and I said, "Mr. Vice President, I have some bad news. forecast. is. If The weather has just settled in on us. It was supposed to have been good all night, and here it you look out the window it's just awful." can see it. It wasn't What's

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was in this position. I was an assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, but Kennedy had announced his intention to send my name forward as the new Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. He had not sent my name forward because it was agreed

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

impressions that a new member makes upon not only the leadership but his colleagues. B: Did Mr. Johnson move into any of the groupings in the House? Could you as s ociate him with the Southerner s ? M: Oh, I would say he had friends everywhere. Even

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

goods - -to stimulate the entire economy. have a momentum for development in India, Korea, in Pakistan, in in Taiwan and in a number of other countries that's new and that's real and vigorous and that, these countries where they want to go

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

almost the entire seaboard, and it would I think represent a real threat to the independence, and the western orientation, of not only Japan but also Indonesia, the Phillippines, and potentially even Australia and New Zealand. But what I've suggested

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

the apologies were addressed? G: One would have been Senator [Arthur] Watkins of Utah, and the other--the name slips [from] me--was from New Jersey; it was a long name, I can't remember. He called Watkins a "handmaiden of communism," and the other one was just

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with that library they built particularly. We looked at some of their commercial buildings--one I believe in Lincoln Center in New York; looked at commercial buildings as well. I remember Connecticut General Life--we looked at their building, Mrs. Johnson

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

, in my estimation, and they went public. So when I came back, all the news- papers were after him, onto the story. Then I went back to Okinawa, talked it over with some friends, and we decided that one of the problems was nobody in the Pentagon knew

Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

people are going to get hurt or killed. G: Did you have an opinion on the way that Hanoi was apparently able to convince some Americans that we were, in fact, bombing the civilians? Harrison Salisbury, I think, of the New York Times, was perhaps the best