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  • legislative career." Dugger feels this mtg will pxKsd prevent misconstructions or errors of perspective. '7:20p Marvin 8:15p y— 8:25p President Watson - pl Arthur Krim - in the Mansion to Justice William O. Douglas' Home where he and his wife, Cathy
  • . 1981 INTERVIEWEE: EDWARD G. LANSDALE INTERVIEWER: TED GITTINGER PLACE: General Lansdale's home. McLean. Virginia Tape G: of 2 General Lansdale, we were discussing some of the reform programs in South Vietnam while you were there. Did you advise
  • ~t~ FIRST STATE BANK ANti 'f ' ' PORT LJ..VACA, TEXAS Attention: Lynden B. J9hnson, Vice President United States of America Federal Housing Administration to waive requirement of down-.p ment in cash to replace a home destroyed by the hurricane
  • I've been in the mining business for a good many years. From there my parents came over. They were actually political refugees. My family had to leave for political reasons and ended up in a town called Douglas, Arizona, also on the border, next to Agua
  • Arguedas Mendieta; the effect of the CIA's alleged involvement with Guevara and Arguedas on U.S.-Bolivian relations; bomb-throwing incidents at Castro's home while he was ambassador to Bolivia; problems getting U.S. aid into Bolivia, especially due
  • on his way down to Corpus Christi to accept his first big assignment job with Congressman Richard M. Kleberg. Congressman Kleberg asked him to stop by and meet us, and he stayed all night in our home. C: Were you publishing then? F: Yes sir, fifty
  • for Interpretation Do I have that title correct? H: That's correct. B: Sir, just for the convenience of anyone using this in the future, would you briefly summarize your career up to your taking over this job? H: Yes, I'd be glad to. I was born in Oakland
  • relationship between the National Park Service (NPS) and the Texas Park Service (TPS); working with Mark Gosdin and Will Odom of TPS; preserving the Danz, Sauer and Behrens homes; architect Roy White of Austin; funds from Laurance Rockefeller for furnishings
  • Telephon 11 ; I n Ou tL 1:04p 1 ' __ Wal oL y e] Activit y y (includ e visite d by ) D :09p Lor d Loui s Mountbatte n t Rostow Sir Patric k Dea n , Ambassado r o f Great Britai n Lord Mountbatte n i s travelin g i n the U.S . unde r th e auspice
  • Code LD To * 28, 1968 Thursday (include visited by) ture the Fish Room where Ernest Goldstein was hosting AMBASSADORS LUNCHEON John Goldstein's memo Amb Keith Waller of Australia "" is now Sir John - was knighted this year of gist to DT ..- Amb
  • offic e --pob an d mjd r aske d hi m ho w he fel t an d h e sai d muc h better. He asked how they felt an d po b answered fin e an d Juanit a sai d "I've a cold sir " - he turned aroun d an d tol d he r t o g o home, jus t leave righ t no w and ge t int
  • industry, disregard human life ? Suppose I say no, what else would you recommend? General Wheeler: Mining Haiphong . The President: Do you think this will involve the Chinese Communists and the Soviets? General Wheeler: No , Sir
  • - GSA Administrator Rober t Weaver - HOUSIN G AN D HOME FINANC E AGENCY Hon. Glen n T . Seabor g - AEC Hon. Jame s E . Webb , Administrator ; Hug h L . Dryde n Dep. Administrato r an d Dr. Rober t C . Seamans , Jr . - Assoc. Administrato r NAS A Hon
  • was going to lose it. that he was going to lose it. I never felt But, as I say, you just don't count those chickens until they come home. M:: Yes. E: Finally, they're all right. But, no, I wasn't particularly worried; but I was concerned, because
  • taking for word.) this "Tell him I realize and admire greatly and I said as much night.'' down? (Answer: Yes, sir, all the practical difficulties the way he has handled it, to the President on Monday (Thank you very much, General Marshall
  • the drainage problem. F: Was it as close an election here as it was over the State? L· The first election? F· Yes. L: Yes, sir, it was. The way I remember it in this county, I believe O'Daniel probably led the ticket. second, and Johnson was third
  • , have any struck you as being particularly meritorious or with substance, or are they all, to your mind, meretricious? N: You mean the criticisms? G: Yes, sir. N: Well, I hate to brand everything, including stuff I haven't read, as being wrong
  • not talk Worked signing table with mjdr Mrs. Johnson at the hospital , Colonel James Adams. WHACA. at home. The President wanted to know how long it would take _ Ton Johnson (PL) to get a commercial call through to Capt Robb in Vietnam. Commercial Calls
  • , but a few voters, and as I said, I went down with my wife and my five-year old daughter, stayed in the hotel, did my job, and came home. That is really what I did, but when I came home, the investigation was, we thought, complete, but I didn't spend a lot
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 8, 1969 B: This is a continuation, the second interview with Rev. Holcomb. Sir, we left this after about 1961 or so. The next thing would be in '62 when you were appointed by President Kennedy as chairman of the Texas
  • of age at that time, and I would go out on the patio of our home to practice my lines and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • Texas; Van Cliburn; St. Mary’s Catholic High School chorus; Diaz Ordaz visit; “The Fandango;” Sir Gilbert Peake.
  • of Prince Souvanna. I would follow the policy outlined in outg·o lng cabl No. 1a61 (Tab C) . McG. B . (page 2 of 2 pages) 7 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON June 25, 1964 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT Subject: An appeal from Prime Minister Douglas-Home on our
  • quickly." When I got to Bragg, Johnny Bowen didn't know anything about this. He said, "Who the hell are you and what are you doing on my post?" I said, "Sir, I have orders to take anything I want." (Laughter) About that time the phone rang
  • will rn'"a terially affect the balance out there? . . :;.... 1.Vheel.::=: Yes, Sir. We should decrease by every pound we can to stop rnove:nent of supplies. In interdiction, you start at the beginning and go all the way thl"ough to finally stopping
  • called to report the following. about the 1. He ls seeing Gen. Eisenhower who ls ''enthusiastic" Douglas committee. Cabot believes that Gen. Eisenhower's strong backing for this u:middle position" will not only give your posltlon strength but make
  • L. Dean , Associat e Administrator, FA A Dept of Treasur y Georg e Jaszi , Departmen t of Commerc e C. Tyle r Wood , Missio n Directo r , Home r E . Newell , Associat e Administrator , NAS A _ \ AID Leonar d Neiderlehner , Deput y Genera l Counsel
  • them with him to compare them, and he said everything was aboveboard. On his way home though, he said he stopped at a beer joint and he left the poll and tally lists in the glove compartment of his car. Those were two sets. The only remain- ing
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 13, 1969 B: This is an interview with Patrick V. Murphy., former Director of Public Safety of the District of Columbia, and later Director of the Law Enforcement and Assistance Administration. Sir, to start with your
  • always supported the efforts to have better farm programs. Rural electrification-- he was an early advocate and always a strong supporter of rural electrification, rural telephone program; the various credit programs of the Farmers Home Administration
  • , "I don't know just what you mean, sir ." And he said, � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • and involved a nuclear war between the United States and the Russians and/or Chinese, I don't know. But I do know that I am convinced that had we followed [Douglas] MacArthur's thrust--and I don't fault Harry Truman for firing MacArthur--but had we followed
  • anything next Monday at lunch? Juanita Yes sir - lunch at the '-Ahite House with the President LBJ For the President of Ecuador? Juanita Yes sir with Mrs. Johnson too. LBJ Have lunch with the President and the President of Ecuador. RY Well we
  • was a I had had little previous administrative experience. r had been director of the NRA in Virginia briefly. But I was predominantly a newspaper writer in those days, an assistant to the distinguished editor of Richmond's afternoon newspaper, Douglas
  • bring home to American officials .. ~- It is not a losing proposition. ;\ Dick Helms: If you relieve a seige of a bastion, you get headlines. a. The President: He has worsf. problem with press than we do. General Westmoreland: .Khesanh. Clark
  • in the South is concerned. I liked Symington. I liked him. I liked Paul Douglas, And I perhaps liked somebody else--I can't remember any other candidates at the moment of that time. F: Stevenson was still around. S: I had about done all I could do
  • : All right, sir. Is it accurate to say that your first involvement in intelligence regarding Vietnam was when you were at USARPAC? D: Yes. That's true. You don't watch it with the single focus that the J-2 MACV watches it, because that's the whole
  • , and it was a nonpartisan type of political involvement. But I elected to run for city council back in the home city of Sioux City, which was a city of roughly a hundred thousand. And I went through a very, very tough campaign for city hall and won that campaign by a very
  • in the United States did not have any strategic reserve at home for contingencies elsewhere. And if the Soviets had wanted to heat things up in Europe, for example, or Berlin or something, we'd have been sort of hurting. LBJ Presidential Library http
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nay 13, 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., in his office in New York on Hay 13, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Weisl, you're out of Illinois, right? W: Yes, sir. F: Tell us a little
  • life into your new? C: I never did. My mother still at this moment has some things at home that she packed up from the sorority house that day. I guess the only thing that I did as far as going to check in at that life again was to take off one day
  • landscape. F: There is a third generation now of landscape architects in the family, isn't there? W: Yes, sir. t'ly older son, Theodore J. Wirth, has his own business at Billings, Montana, and played a part in the design of the LBJ Park. LBJ