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Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • as a general assignment reporter for about six months till the end of 1963, then went to Newsweek in early 1964, spent three years there as an associate editor largely in charge of the radio and television departments, otherwise just "swing writing
  • ; department's speech drafts; review of speeches; "Rose Garden rubbish;" LBJ's sensitivity to press reaction to speeches' LBJ's relationship with the press; joke specialist on staff; LBJ as am accomplished storyteller and raconteur; LBJ's speech referring to his
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • foreign policy by the Defense Department and others. Do you think that's an accurate appraisal? B: I have seen no evidence of it since I have been back here. Now, of course, you've got to remember that the Viet Nam affair has always been handled
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 1963 to 1967, you served as secretary of the navy; and from 1961 to 1963 you served as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. Earlier from 1946 to 1953, you also had government service in the State Department
  • Biographical information; the duties of the deputy secretary of defense; how Nitze met LBJ; the issue of balancing deterrent and war fighting forces; maintaining an alliance among non-Communist countries; 1960 Department of Defense issues