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Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a couple of weeks leave to come back to the States really to see what I was going to do when I got out of the army. I was thinking of teaching at the Harvard Law School at the time, but I had another errand to do. One of my fellow technical advisers
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Majored in economics, M.A. in 1950, Ph.D. much later, ten years later at the University of f·iaryldlld, gotten part-time while vwrk-ing at the Council of Economic Advisers. M: And your Ph.D. also in economics? S: In economics, risht. I spent rt;ost
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1968 INTERVIE\'lEE: BE~; INTERVIE\{ER: T. iL\?2.I BARER J. 1,'I/\.TTENBERG Mr. i;;"ttenberg' s office, Executive Office Building, PLACE: Washi~gton, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Hr. Hattenberg, we '..;'2.re talk.ing last time about the group of you
Oral history transcript, Peter P. Muirhead, interview S-I, 7/23/1968, by Herman R. Allen (Item)
  • . l in your \\'Ork with , t .he 18.u d grc:mt college s, ,.;e hrrvc I I - I I c;l o. ~; r rsc.. , has b e8n \'lith us for quite· a long time. ' 1. sig-1 £ l·\ :·, j: 1 m~st ' I wOuld be inclined to think the most signific a nt
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the chairman of the board of Gulf and Western, and see whether you like him. I sent him a nice letter about you and he said he'd be interested in meeting you." Well, I, among other things, did that. I went up to New York and I spent some time with Mr. Bluhdorn
  • during weekends and trips; a water shortage during Levinson's first days at the White House in 1965; the first time Levinson saw LBJ in person.
Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , since I am a Catholic priest now. However, my people having so many children--and this was the time of the First World War, the currency and the money all went down, there was inflation and my people were poor--they couldn't send me to the seminary. So I
Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that eventually became the commissions, and the programs that eventually inspired government to expand housing, education, medical care and so on. Keep in mind that at the time that the area redevelopment bill passed in 1961, we didn't have the breakthroughs
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was to illustrate the fact that Mr. Weisl, who is Johnson's long-time friend in New York and his lawyer, became his committeman in New York City. Yet he had met few members of the press. Mike O'Neill knew the President very well; if I gave the impresston otherwise
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • looking for something to crystallize their resent­ ments against the prevailing political moods of the time. Now here was an issue that may have been a very foolish issue. The concept of how many angels can dance on the point of a pin is much more
Oral history transcript, W. Stanley Kruger, interview S-I, 8/13/1968 (Item)
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Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , "That Republican"--by t h i s time, w e 're j u s t a lo n e , He said . "That Republican s e c r e t a r y wants to save money." I s a i d , "But he i s n ' t saving money, he i s wasting money." "He'll convince you." s a i d , " B u l l. " He s a i d , And I
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is a union is a union. One of their biggest targets was the so-called closed shop. Now to most of the members of both the House corrrnittee and the Senate committee at the time of the Taft-Hartley Act, the closed shop was merely a monopoly of labor
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • after World War II, about 1947. He had served previous time in this while still a member of the Secret Service, but the President removed him for various reasons. The principal one was nonaccessibility, nonavailability when the President wanted him. So
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . particular occasion. We were sitting in the So it didn't always have to be a It might just be that you were there. I think a lot of times he might thing, "Well, I've got a staff member who has been working awfully hard, and he has been away from home
  • Alexander’s nomination; LBJ’s attempts to reconcile with Russell; maintaining support for Fortas over time; losing Everett Dirksen’s support of Fortas; Homer Thornberry; Temple’s advice to LBJ and Mrs. Johnson’s support regarding Thornberry; Barefoot Sanders
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but-T: By recollection is about three ,veeks. It could have been four, but roughly three '-lecks. F: So there's a lot of time to whittle and hone. T: That's right. And you'll recall that, at least the aftermath accounts indicate they uere r
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and they had no proper military clothes to wear. Every damn thing that they criticized the Job Corps for doing has been done by the United States government through the Defense Department in times of war. The same thing happened in World War I. [It] happens any
Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin and Harold Howe II, interview S-II, undated (Item)
  • een appropriated for supp;.;rt of the s e pr ograms - . are by no mean s ade quate to do the job, nor h a.s there been ade quate time to complete that job. But a ver-.r effective start has b e en made, and it seems to me that th ere is need noi..1
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wanted me to do. I mean I was at all times, I hope, respectful but when they didn't want to do something the President wanted done and didn't have a good reason, I'd get them to do it. I always had difficulty dealing with Bill Wirtz. He was a nice
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • administration as I had with the State department. So I accepted this appointment, taking leave from my present work. I wasn't quite sure at the time how long I would stay over there, and I never talked to the President about it personally prior
Oral history transcript, Dr. Arthur Harris, interview S-I, 7/10/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)
  • services, such as student loan fellm,:ship i i ( programs , foreign langu~g e 1 programs, foreign language research, .· . . I, 11~ there Has practically nothing in th e way of , at this time, 1 fi of fin ancial assistance for construction
Oral history transcript, Nolan Estes, interview S-I, 7/23/1968, by Monna Clark (Item)
  • Commissioner of Ed­ 21 ucati on at that time, Frnnci s Keppel,· •,.;ho, through inf orrr.al 22 cha.ts with the Associate Co1i1missioncr and a f cw other key 23 in div icluals, insist eel that the focus be on ix1novat ion, on 24 I 1J 11 25 I
Oral history transcript, Ralph Flynt, interview S-I, 7/23/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)
  • ~. years Tiith the variJu s chang es in the oreani z a tion and your I variou s duties , up to perhap s the presen t time. :· I ? I !I I ; : ·1 :B 11 '\ lg I have served in the Off ice MR. FLY.NT: :j fo~ more than one-th ird of its total lifeo
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview S-I, 7/18/1968, by John Singerhoff (Item)
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Oral history transcript, W. Sterling Cole, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • anyway. They w e r e n ' t going to a l lo w t e m p t a t i o n to expose us to t h e same t h i n g t h a t our p r e d e c e s s o r had done. man, t h e congressman. I used t o know t h e I d o n ' t know him now, d o n ' t have any r e c o l l e
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in terms of how they dealt with Congress? C: Well, I think simply here that again it's--we'll never know whether or not the same contributions would have flowed at the end of the same period of time. There's just no way we can ever measure that except
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVla~EE : r,1RS. HALTER PRESCOTT WEBB (TERRELL HAVERICK HEBB) I NTERVI D~ER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Where did you first get into the Washington scene? W: Well, the first time I really ever thought anything
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Any insights on that? W: I'm afraid that I'm going to have a hard time in keeping my recollections from becoming co-mingled with some of the things that I've read that others have said. But my best recollection about it, just thinking about
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and take the combination B.A./LL.B. This is really what I had had in mind. Upon transferring here I became engrossed with the government department, particularly [because] Dr. Redford and Dr. O. D. Weeks [?] were there at that time, and a young bright star
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 5 (V), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to a conversation between President Johnson and Secretary [Robert] McNamara in my presence in the Cabinet Room late in the afternoon of May 3, 1965. My reason for being present at that time was a previous session that had been held with the President and Secretary
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1968 INTERVIEWEE: RAMSEY CLARK INTERVIEWER: HARRI BAKER PLACE: Attorney General's Office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Mr. Clark, may we begin with where you first met Mr. Johnson--what time and circumstances? C: Well, I don't recall
Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • : For the Office of Economic • • • • • TD: Yes, for the regional office here. We handle eleven states out of this area office. PB: Mr. Dunlap, I understand you were at San Marcos in Southwest Texas College at the same time as Mr. Johnson. We are trying to get
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 2 (II), 12/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to Cyprus with the first stop being Ankara." I said, ''If you're really serious, I don't see how I can possibly do it. I'm terribly busy at this point. What sort of time pressure is there?" He said, "The time pressure is immense, and if it's decided that you
Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: FRANK PACE, JR. INTERVI EWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Pace's office, 545 Madison Avenue, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You're Frank Pace, and your last full time government occupation was in 1953 \"lhen you retired as Secretary
Oral history transcript, Billy Graham, interview 1 (I), 10/12/1983, by Monroe Billington (Item)
  • 12, 1983 INTERVIEWEE: BILLY GRAHAM INTERVIEWER: Monroe Billington PLACE: Interview was conducted over the telephone Tape 1 of 1 B: Why don't you just talk a little bit about the time you first had contact with President Johnson? G: Well
Oral history transcript, Marjorie A. Delafield, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • the matchbook covers for the canteen. Being in the City Hall frequently, I met Mrs. Bess Beeman, who was at that time a receptionist at City Hall. She came to the canteen often for coffee and she had a need to have some typing done for the Austin
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at Harvard and joined-- M: That was 1948 by that time? C: Yes. Joined, in the fall of '48, the staff that was planning a new magazine which subsequently in '49 was The Reporter magazine. Sent in 1950 to Washington as the Washington editor of The Reporter
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • we begin, because I think this is a time period central to our area of discussion. I have down here that in 1960 to 1962 that you were director of the Joint Staff organization within the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This would be here at the Pentagon. W
Oral history transcript, Myer Feldman, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • help staff that committee. Lyndon Johnson went to Donald Cook, his protégé and his friend, who was chairman of the SEC. Donald Cook said, "I can't do it because I have a full-time government job, but I have a young lawyer who I think is able to handle
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 3 (III), 7/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but it did make a start in that whole civil rights picture, and we anticipated there would be additional legislation from time to time. And so we were context to take what bread we could get if we couldn't get a whole loaf at the time. F: In the situation
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • resuming my activities among the students in Paris and at the same time going back to the university to finish one last part of my mathematics studies that I had before at the university in Hanoi, and then I came back to Saigon in 1954. G: I see. So you