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Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

years, and you know, nature abhors change and people do. But Nick Katzenbach, and after him Ramsey Clark, made their commitment to our interests--interest of the Criminal Division--very clear, as did President Johnson. So, while I think there may have

Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

on these matters. He will then go around the table asking Secre- tary Nitze for his ideas, Paul Warnke and myself for ours, and then George Elsey and Bob Pursley for theirs. discussion as a decision-making Clark uses this roundtable aid in his pwn mind. his

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. be because I love Austin. This is where I wanted to For one thing it has been my home now pretty consistently since 1933, and I wanted to return to my law firm. I had been with another law firm earlier -- the one with Edward Clark, the Ambassador

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 3 (III), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

wants to take up my resignation, he is privileged to do it. I'd be sad if I heard about it, but he has a perfect ri ght to do it." Then, of course, subsequently Clark Clifford came over to see the Secretary in an endeavor to get him to change his mind

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. But there was the feeling that you were sitting with a dynamo more than the touching. He was at concert pitch all the time. One time during the war, we went to an Army-Navy game. Jim was off in the Pacific and Bird was in Texas. Tom Clarks. We drove over to Baltimore

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

Connally, Willard Deason, Jake Pickle, Ed Syers, Ed Clark, and a few others, all well known in Texas LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 2 (II), 4/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Hopkins and Wirtz. He got none from Ed Clark. I'm hepped on that right now. (Laughter) G: How would you contrast Professor Greene on the one hand and Dr. Robert Montgomery on the other? W: Well, they were a whole lot alike. Professor Greene was more

Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to lower the budget and before Mr. Eisenhower came in the Trumans were--Mrs. [Bess] Truman is a great friend of mine and the President, of course. I knew all the people around him like Clark Clifford and everyone, so they finally raised the NIH [National

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

guess Abe Fortas, [Clark] Clifford, probably others--who had been involved with him over the years. Obviously he would be eliciting their views. Here is a president who has to have some concern about the political fallout from Vietnam. This could cause

Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the greatest men I ever knew. Charlie Murphy was [Secretary of Defense Clark] Clifford's deputy. Clifford was everything for Harry Truman and then Charlie Murphy was everything for Harry Truman after Clifford retired. I remember when we got the message

Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

was interested in a number of us, and largely through her efforts I went to graduate school the next year at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and got an M.A. degree there in 1931 . M: What was your major subject? B: Economics . Political

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

a small dinner at the White House for the Cabinet, and then lunch out at Clark Clifford's on the 20th, and I haven't seen him or corresponded with him since then . M: That exhausts the questions I had for you . B: Let me go back and say one thing . I

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

meet at your ranches later on then? B: Well, in the '40's we met back at his place in Johnson City or we'd meet over in the place we'd bought over in Bracketville--Fort Clark --but that was way along in the late '40's and the '50's . M: Did you find

Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

been to the barbershop. Capitol. I know I was over in the The House was not in session, so I started back to the House Office Building, and I met a boy who was secretary for [Congressman O.C.] Clark Fisher. He had just come from the Capitol, and he

Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Relations Service has been available at times. helpful. I can't recall the specific instances, but it has been very And of course at the time of the King funeral I was in daily telephone conversation with the Attorney General Clark, and he offered me

Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and former presi dent of the State Bar of Texas, and I guess one of the outstanding people in the legal field in Texas, perhaps the nation--a partner in one of the leading law firms in Houston ; the ex-Ambassador to Australia, Edward Clark ; Mr . Will Wilson

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as not only a wonderfully decent man but as a moderate. He was liberal enough to satisfy all but the most demanding liberals, the Paul Douglases and the Joe Clarks in the Senate, but he was not radically liberal himself and had a lot of sympathy and fellow

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

then of replacing you as Attorney General . Was Ramsey Clark the obvious choice there? K: Yes, I think Ramsey was the obvious choice. I think the President's problem on that was that he knew I had good relations with the people in Congress, as far

Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

not accepted by LBJ; briefing the Wise Men; the Pueblo; LBJ’s March 31, 1968, speech; Clark Clifford’s change in stance on the issue of Vietnam; Ginsburgh’s evaluation of the bombing campaign; lessons from the Vietnam War; troop morale; relaying information

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

House and the ambulances and everything came for him, it would create a great unpleasant kind of a story that could backfire. B: John Sharon? A: John Sharon, yes. Clark Clifford's law partner. S-H-A-R-O-N. Jim Sundquist was there--he was then working

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

get there? F: I got there on July 1 of 1967. And I'd never gone to a POW training; I'd always been too busy. And for the first time they put me through a survival course that was at Clark Air Force Base, and we got rained out the first day. They had

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

period. I was privileged to go with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson on the plane when we went directly from here to the convention and arrived. The Texas delegation had been delegated to a dreadful hotel called the New Clark. Governor [John] Burns

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the side entrance, the 7th Street entrance of the hotel, and there was Ed Clark and Lyndon Johnson and, I don't know, Claude Wild and two or three others standing there. Apparently Lyndon LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

since capitalized on this rather difficult matter. Mr'. McCarthy was never there. ~lr. McGovern was never present. Kennedy and Mr. Clark haq no par- ticipation in the genesis of any of these programs, until they became sensational. This is equally

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, was then the director of public safety, came in unshaven--for Pat. He really looked, you know--he'd been up all night. And the Mayor came in; he'd been up all night. Ramsey was in there, Ramsey Clark, I believe. And we sat around the table, the police chief

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

; Clark Clifford’s views on the war.

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, David L. Hackett, interview 1 (I), 4/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Kenneth Clark's group. It went through Mayor [Robert] Wagner's office, and over an eighteen-month period they came up with a comprehensive plan, one of the better ones. And secondly, they came up with one organization. There was a certain amount

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

dealt with that final memorandum precipitated by his colleague-MG: Harry McPherson? DG: Harry. When Harry's memo and Ramsey Clark and others, all of whom had a different view, obviously, or they thought that Califano had a different view, because

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in and then turn them off, and you'll have enough cool air in there to keep all those people very, very comfortable." And I was ecstatic about the idea! I've forgotten who we discussed it with. I discussed it, I think, with Clark Clifford--he was sort of our