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Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 3, 1968 M: Let's begin by identifying you generally for background purposes. You are Robert M. White, currently administrator of the Environmental Science Services Administration, and I believe you are the only

was successful, to our knowledge, in detecting every launch that it was in a position to monitor, both in this country and over the Soviet Union. The future of that effort will be associated with the 949 program which will place the satellite in synchronous orbit
Nuclear/non-nuclear submarine and fleet vessels; developments in intelligence gathering; military-industrial complex; Office of Science and Technology; chemical warfare; Robert McNamara; Clark Clifford; Congress

forces or committees other than in Naval affairs? B: Yes, I'm a member of the President's Commission on Marine Sciences, Resources, and Engineering, which is a Presidential commission composed of fifteen members. Only three of us have had--four
Biographical information; Contact with President Johnson; President's Committee on Marine Sciences, Resource and Engineering; Environmental Service Administration; Sea Lab III; travel as Under Secretary; Assistant Secretary position; impression

. Furthermore, earth orbit would have put us closer to a space station which would have allowed us to do earth observations in science and so on earlier . I think this is going to happen anyway, but it would have happened earlier the other way

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

among White House staff; division of staff along philosophical and personal lines; George Christian and TV networks; CBS-Cronkite Show anti-administration material; William S. White; Joe Alsop; animosities over humor; "corny" criticism about Medal

then, as they had finished, the President turned to me and said, "General, you tell them what you told me last night." was into the question of the local boards. That, of course, Obviously, I--it could be merely a monitor letting somebody present his story--but I

to it that that is monitored and controlled by higher echelons; and that those things which do affect the interface between the military and other LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

: Did you feel that that was an intentional thing--that we were perhaps getting a little too close in monitoring events of the crisis? N: No. The Israelis had surveilled our ship earlier in the day; they knew it was a U.S. ship; they had taken

up with Califano and yourself and four others, is that right? L: Four people that worked with us. As I say, we divided the government up so that we would be able to monitor the major activities of each of the agencies, both in the development

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

questions, I suppose. R: In the Kennedy-Bundy period, and I only saw six months of it, but there was a far more detailed monitoring of Department of State business, down to really a very detailed level. We used to clear things with Mac Bundy and his people

Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

beneficial to Arizona; the Secretary had his own people up there monitoring me to be sure I didn't commit the Administration in advance of having clearance from the President and the Bureau of the Budget and everybody. F: But this of course is wnat you have

or so. So I'd say that this is probably the most inspected and audited and monitored program that we have anywhere. Even so, I don't say that it's not possible and doesn't happen that there are corrupt diversions or simple theft or Viet Cong seizure

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

we had direct lines to the exchanges--Manny Cohen would be there and a couple of his people, I think Pollack was one of them; Larry Levinson was in for awhile on that; and we just sat there and monitored the market for a couple of days. And then when

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