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Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on into his Presidency. You first began to make trips to Latin America for the government right at the beginning of your brother's inauguration. E: No, much earlier than that. My work took me into Latin America, as well as elsewhere, under President
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 2 that many of the members of Congress who were criticizing Johnson for would have been afraid to move had it not been for Presidential sponsorship. I think almost all the promises of the Democratic conventions--liberal projects that had been
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • one of the best nominees that the Democratic party could have. I had never heard much about Stevenson. I think I'm a one-speech convert. I had never heard him speak. I had been at Chicago at the convention trying to build up a bonfire for Speaker
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • talked to him about the small towns in America where the level of teaching was mediocre and certainly not competitive with the big cities, and how, if we had television stations serving those towns, films by acknowledged experts in the field could
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . That was a particularly moving campaign because if you'll recall in 1960, it wasn't just the race issue in places like Tennessee, it was the religious issue. There really is a belt in America that starts in sort of southern Indiana, and is like a cone expanding, like