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Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • administration until I was elected governor. Then of course I could get in the White House, and I was received cordially and very warmly. B: I meant, for example, the difference between, say, Attorney Generals Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Katzenbach and Mr. Clark? M
Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • scheduled in Houston and they couldn't find a hotel that would take blacks. Lyndon sent Ramsey Clark and me down to Houston to try to straighten out the situation and find a place, a hotel, to hold the conference. We spent a couple of days in Houston
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • that time who ,jere associated in that venture. BP: Can you tell us some of those people? Well, John Co~ally, of course, our governor was one of -, the~; Ambassa~or Ed Clark, Congressman Jake Pickle, Bill Deason, one of our fine commissioners
Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • me Mr. McNamara was leaving, but not what Mr. McNamara's job was going to be. He tOld me who he was going to appoint Mr. Clark Clifford as Secretary of Defense. , He further, on that occasion, told me that he had decided not to run
Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • such a district that they would very seldom vote for a New Frontier bill. F: Could you talk with people like, let's say, Clark Fisher or Omar Burleson, John Dowdy? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • than Mr. Rusk, Mr. [Clark] Clifford, General [Earle] Wheeler, and to some extent Mr. [William] Bundy at the State Department, and the other chiefs of staff, have access to the traffic going backward and forward between Paris and LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that." And there was a point at which Baker found himself in a meeting that he thought Sarge had set up in which this issue was discussed with Ramsey Clark there, while Ramsey took the same side Baker did on that. That pretty well laid it to rest. But Shriver, you know, he
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • contacted me about it, and I checked it out and I discovered Walter had been picked up in that infamous men's room at the Y[MCA] near the Capitol. I called him; he claimed he didn't know anything about it, which may well be, because both Abe Fortas and Clark
Oral history transcript, Lloyd N. Cutler, interview 1 (I), 4/12/1969, by William Helmer (Item)
  • , or mild juniors of his such as Mr. Johnson. But when Mr. Johnson came into the presidency we reverted back, as we naturally would. He naturally turned to his friends and the men upon whom he had counted over the years, men like Justice Fortas, like Clark
Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • wife and me down to the ranch, and we went down and spent three days there with the McGeorge Bundys people . and the Clark Cliffords and Califano and two other It was interesting to see him there on the ranch, and it was interesting to get
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • told me just a moment ago . B: All right . After Mr . Johnson made his trip down under, he came back and told me of a visit he had made along with Ambassador Ed Clark to an Australian rancher's place--apparently in the outback ; I never did know
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the phone and he'd say, "John, I just thought you ought to know I'm going to appoint Ramsey Clark as attorney general." He sometimes called me personally, sometimes one of his staff would call, but he was very good about that. F: Did he ever sound you out
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • visitors through the office in those days. George Brown was there very often. Ed Clark was there all the time--I say all the time--frequently. Everett Looney was there frequently, Malcolm Bardwell occasionally. These were the people that he principally saw
Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . A fellow who was from Texas, the Ambassador-- G: Ed Clark, wasn't it? A: Yes, that's right, Ed Clark. A very nice gentleman, mustache you know, a very congenial fellow. He and his wife received the press out at his ranch. He had a little barbecue
  • ; malfunctioning public address systems; foreign trips; Ambassador Ed Clark; Southeast Asian Conference in Manila; Tyler Abell; secret trip to Vietnam; examples of LBJ making last-minute decisions; problem in Seoul with setting up for a public appearance; Jim Adams
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 out." He had sent the letter to Clark Clifford. letter to Abe Fortas. Rowe. He had sent the He had sent the letter, I think, to Jim I forget whether Dean Acheson was in it, but there were four or five members of what
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't know the reason that Fulbright was in the Cabinet Room, but I know that the heavies were in there: [Walt] Rostow, Rusk, [Richard] Helms. sure whether [Earle] Wheeler was in there. I'm not No, Wheeler couldn't have been in there, but Clark
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Voting Rights Act 1965; Civil Rights Act; Mansfield; McCormack; Hale Boggs; Russell Long; LBJ’s feelings about open housing; differences between Ramsey Clark and Katzenbach over civil rights; LBJ’s consideration of legal problems raised by open
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • [jewelry]. The writer came down from New York, Champ Clark, the grandson of the old Speaker, the son of Bennett Clark, the senator. Lyndon knew him. Champ Clark was the writer of that story, and he came down and he had one of those sessions
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at the request of Senator Joe Clark, who had just been elected to the Senate in 1956, the year I lost. He called me one day in desperation, I guess in December, saying that he was going to be sworn in as a senator the following week and he hadn't even begun
  • Biographical information; how Quigley became a Democrat in 1949; family political history; Quigley's congressional campaign in 1950 and election in 1954; Quigley's campaign losses in 1950 and 1956; Quigley's work for Senator Joe Clark and Quigley's
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • one, and the functions of the job, just briefly, because we will be touching on these as the interview develops. C: Yes, Miss Pierce,· just a general outline first, if I may. We became friends through a mutual friend, Ed Clark, inAustin. turned out, I
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Phil Graham [publisher, Washington Post], who had come in and was waiting and said, "Phil, I've got to get out of this. Can't you help me?" And he said, "No, I can't, but there's only one man in town that can, and that's Clark Clifford." So when we came
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with Lyn Nugent; Ramsey Clark; Tom Headrick; Wilbur Cohen; Cyrus Vance; John Gardner; reasons potential candidates might not be interested in the dean position; Frederic Cleaveland; Livingston meeting John Gronouski; Gronouski’s attributes and how he became
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and military involvement in the “other war”; the State Department’s lack of interest in the Other War; management of the Other War; Komer’s Vietnam reports; regrets regarding Komer’s work in Vietnam; Clark Clifford’s goals and plans; Komer’s idea for a war
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . This, then, called us to the attention of many of the groups that were working in this field, including some that were close to Secretary Ickes, who had set up a racial advisory office under Clark Foreman--a white Georgian but had worked with the Roosevelt-F
Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • and said, "No, [president of the University of California]Clark Kerr can't have them" and "McGeorge Bundy can't have them; no one can have them." G: Yes. K: I asked a minute ago--I don't think you have a chance to answer, but why do you think
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about political decisions? J: I think Johnson consulted him on just about every political decision he made. G: Did he and [Clark] Clifford advise Johnson together? 15 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall? E: I think Ed Clark was in there quite a bit and John Connally. I can't remember who else. But I remember as a secretary thinking, ugh, these yucko lawyers from the . . . . G: Did you as a liberal have a problem with his supporting it? E
Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • the most work in was when he was running on the ticket with President Johnson for vice president. B: With Kennedy? G: (Laughter) With Kennedy, yes, for vice president. He was the vice presidential nominee, and Mrs. Edward Clark and I were co-chairmen
Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Services--the Defense Department---wouldn't tell him a damned thing going on in the war. M: And you had been a friend of his in the Senate? A: Yes. And so I finally got somebody to go down there. They got General Carter Clark over there and finally
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • been killed in an airplane crash in St. Louis--I believe it was St. Louis, anyway it was in the Mississippi River--Tom Clark's brother, and this had haunted him quite a lot. And it affected his feelings about flying for a number of years. He finally
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Alamo Hotel, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Well, let's start with the Charlie Herring story. J: All right. firm. Charlie was an attorney for the Looney, Clark [and Moorhead
Oral history transcript, Frank Denius, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • finished Law School Clark, and Morehead. , w~tn 7ha t-c B'Je:.:e 1:1:. Looney, late Everett L00neYI and, of course, Ambassador Edward C:ark of -chose gentle.TLen had beer. 10:.;"lg-time frienes and .supporters bot.~ Oi the ~resident. Presic.er.t
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , that group that as far as I knew was a new group gotten together at that time under a sort of shepherding of Clark Clifford, who was the Intelligence head (President's Com. on Intelligence) in '67. When we went back a second time he was Secretary of Defense
Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the Office of the Naval Aide to the President who was then Commodore Vardeman, later Mr. Clark Clifford who is today our Secretary of Defense. I was detailed to his office and assigned to the Entertainments Office for duty. That of course was from '45 to '47
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • meeting would consist of Nick Katzenbach, Jim Vorenberg, Joe Califano, Harry McPherson--two gentlemen of the White House staff; often the then Deputy Attorney General, who soon became Attorney General, Mr. Clark, and myself. And that was the nucleus