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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of drums. To go up to that cathedral to the beat of drums, to see people like de Gaulle and Haile Selassie and Prince Philip walking along the street and into the church, to look around and see these world leaders in every direction you looked, right
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • throw of the dice. I think it was on the first of October. Haile Selassie came for one of his every-year or year-and-a-half visits to Washington to see Kennedy and so forth, and as part of the scenario, he was to be received by LBJ up in the ceremonial
  • LBJ adjusting to presidency; staffing changes after the assassination of JFK; access to LBJ; Henry Kissinger compared to LBJ; LBJ’s meeting with Haile Selassie; Eugene McAuliffe; Gammon’s work as a military attaché under the NSC; Averell Harriman
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . I think we took Faisal on such a parade that was absolutely empty. had a Burmese, Ne Win, on a parade, I believe. I forget. had two or three parades, perhaps we had Haile Selassie of Ethiopia] on one. You know~ We We [Emperor just
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • introduced to Haile Selassie as being from Fredericksburg. G: I suppose that during his youth there was a certain dichotomy between the Germans and the non-Germans in that whole Hill Country area. W: Probably so. Now my mother took elocution lessons from
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it was Haile Selassie and some of the others particularly wanted to be among the first to talk to the new President, and he very graciously saw a number of them right away. F: On something like that are you mother's or does protocol take shep~erd, over
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)